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By Michael Retter, on November 23, 2018
The 2018 issue of Birder’s Guide to Gear is now being mailed. If you’re an ABA member, you should find it in your mailbox in the next couple weeks. But you don’t have to wait until then to see what’s inside. And neither do non-members. You can see the entirety of this issue of [read more…]
A review by Marcia OBara
Birding Southeast Arizona App, by Tucson Audubon Society and the Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory
For Apple iOS and Android Devices
Available for purchase and download at TucsonAudubon.org
I live in Southeast Arizona, and I love birding here. For years our go-to guide and constant companion has been Tucson Audubon’s spiral-bound [read more…]
By Jennie Duberstein, on October 24, 2018 Celebrate Peter Thayer’s birthday by helping get Thayer Birding Software into the hands of one million young birders! [read more…]
A review by Dennis Paulson
The Birds of the Hawaiian Islands, by Robert L. Pyle and Peter Pyle
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 2017
On line at tinyurl.com/HIMonograph
I was happy to be asked to review this online book: I might not have paid much attention to it otherwise, preferring the rustle of pages as I [read more…]
By Michael Retter, on December 11, 2017 The 2017 issue of Birder’s Guide to Gear has been printed and is beginning to arrive in members’ mailboxes. But you don’t have to wait until your hard copy to see what’s inside. And neither do non-members. You can see the entirety of this issue of Birder’s Guide online right now. Just click here.
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By Ted Floyd, on November 9, 2017 “Just google it.”
Or: “Just download the app.”
Or, in extreme cases: “Just go to the library.”
Those options work 99% of the time in this birding life, but not—until very recently—in the case of Bill Evans and Michael O’Brien’s indispensable Flight Calls of Migratory Birds. You actually had to buy, borrow, or bootleg the [read more…]
By Jeff Gordon, on July 1, 2017 Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg preaches the virtues of community, with the ABA Rare Bird Alert Facebook Group featured on the screen behind him
The experience, or at least the run up to it, was not unlike fishing. First, you feel a tap. Then maybe nothing for a while. Then you think you might have [read more…]
A review by Marky Mutchler
Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America, by Nathan Pieplow
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
593 pages, $28—softcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14630
Songs and calls are very important in bird identification, in many cases as useful as the classic visual field marks, but they are often [read more…]
Labrador Ducks, Peter Scott
The good old days were good indeed, but whenever I find myself overcome by nostalgia, I have only to recall one of the truly great advantages of life in this twenty-first century:
Books on line. For free.
Zea E-Books is the new online imprint (so to speak, I suppose) [read more…]
By Jeff Gordon, on March 3, 2017 At the eyepieces—yes, pieces, plural, of the BTX
In early February, I attended an event at Swarovski Optik headquarters in Innsbruck, Austria, along with several dozen other representatives of the world birding community and industry. It was an opportunity for Swarovski Optik to showcase their company and its culture, which came across [read more…]
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New and Noteworthy: Swarovski’s BTX Provides an Eye-opening Scope Experience
At the eyepieces—yes, pieces, plural, of the BTX
In early February, I attended an event at Swarovski Optik headquarters in Innsbruck, Austria, along with several dozen other representatives of the world birding community and industry. It was an opportunity for Swarovski Optik to showcase their company and its culture, which came across [read more…]