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A review by Julia Zarankin The Meaning of Birds, by Simon Barnes Pegasus Books 2018 208 pages—softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14938 The first time I went birding, I ended up in a park on the western edge of Toronto face to face with a flotilla of ducks. According to my fellow birdwatchers, we [read more…] A review by Carrie Laben Being a Bird in North America North of Mexico: Waterfowl to Shorebirds, by Robert Alvo Privately published, 2015 255 pages, $39.95—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14628 Hitchhiking herons, vultures in chef’s hats, Black Rails borne aloft by balloons: This ain’t Sibley. The first volume of Robert Alvo’s new [read more…] Jeff Skrentny and I decided a while back that we would be making one more trip down to Little Egypt and the Trail of Tears in hopes that we might finally be able to track down what may be Illinois’ most elusive summer resident: Anhinga. It would be my 5th attempt. As the day that [read more…] If you bird long enough, you will acquire a nemesis. What’s a nemesis? Mirriam-Webster gives us a few choices, but one definition hits the nail on the head as far as we’re concerned here: a formidable and usually victorious rival or opponent. We don’t often think of birds as “opponents” when birding, but it happens. [read more…] A review by Carrie Laben Nextinction, by Ralph Steadman and Ceri Levy Bloomsbury, 2015 224 pages, $50—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14617 The ABA is giving away 2 signed copies of this book. For more information, see the end of this review! Ceri Levy and Ralph Steadman’s Nextinction arrived while my friend Kaylen was [read more…] A review by Jim Wright The Kiskadee of Death, by Jan Dunlap North Star Press, 2015 256 pages, $14.95—softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books The seventh in Jan Dunlap’s Bob White Birder Murder series, The Kiskadee of Death is a light confection of a mystery, the sort of book you might read on the plane [read more…] This little tale is a perfect storm of a rare bird (or two), a joke, the craziness and power of social media, and a kind benefactor… Saturday, August 16, 1:11 pm John posts to Facebook: At 4:04 pm, I reply: “Wait … I want in too. It will be so much better if we [read more…] Whether we realize it or not, we birders develop relationships with the birds we seek. Sometimes it can be a species, or it can be a family or whole group of families. Take for example the person who loves to spend frozen hours working through a massive collection of loafing gulls, but cannot abide “warbler [read more…] A review by Julia Zarankin Why Do Bluebirds Hate Me? More Answers to Common and Not-So-Common Questions about Birds and Birding, by Mike O’Connor Beacon Press, 2013 185 pages, $12.95—softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14114 Have you ever wondered where cardinals got their name? Or whether woodpeckers take baths? Or [read more…] |
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ICYMI: Location, location, location… what’s in a name?
The ABA Blog has been in existence for almost 7 years, and there’s a lot of good content back in the archives that deserves an audience now that it might not have received way back when. So, semi-regularly we will bring some of that stuff back. Here’s one by Jeff Bouton on a common name [read more…]