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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…] 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…] 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. “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…] 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…] |
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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…]