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The Songs of Insects

By Charlie • April 28, 2007 • 1 comment

Lang Elliott and Wil Hershberger (Houghton Mifflin, May 2007)

A book and CD on North American “singing insects” (the crickets, katydids, grasshoppers, and cicadas) being reviewed on a bird blog. What’s going on Charlie…?

I’ll tell you what: I think that ‘inside every birder is a naturalist trying to get outside’, and every birder I know [...]

Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America

By Mike • April 25, 2007 • 2 comments

The acquisition of a new field guide is always a joyous occasion, signaling either an impending journey or impending answers to old questions. By the latter, I’m referring to those unclosed cases that accumulate any time a nature lover ventures outdoors armed with a camera but not a clue. As you can imagine, my digital [...]