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Crossley ID Guide Revisited

By November 28, 2011 13 comments

Can you believe that it hasn’t even been a year since Richard Crossley and Princeton University Press unleashed The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds on the birding public? Actually, a fair accounting of this innovative book’s already storied history must include many months of fervent speculation. I recall the words “game-changer” and “unprecedented” bandied about as enthusiasts across North [...]

Hawks At A Distance: A Field Guide Review

By November 11, 2011 12 comments

I confess, I don’t always love hawks.  Sure, they’re beautiful and powerful, a reminder of the feral freedom of the skies. They’re also confoundingly difficult to identify, the eternal inscrutable spot in the distance.  This is probably why I number so many hawk books in my collection. There’s the slim Hawk Watch: At Guide for [...]

A great week for Wood-Warblers

By May 15, 2011 7 comments

It really has been great to see such beautiful pictures of wood-warblers all week, especially when it has been so long since we saw any in the USA. It made us reach for our field guide for North America, but that really does not compare to the real thing. I had spent several holidays with [...]

Crossbill Guide to Extremadura: A Review

By March 29, 2011 4 comments

The second edition of the Crossbill Guide to Extremadura has just been released and – to my delight – a copy arrived in the post for me the other day. In preparing for our birding trip to Extremadura this February (as part of the EL50 Swarovision launch), I had bought a copy of the first [...]

Favorite Plate in The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds

By March 27, 2011 2 comments

How many birding reference guides pack the visual punch of The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds? Not many, that’s for sure! That’s why we wanted to find out some of your favorite plates in Crossley’s new opus as part of our Fun, Fun, Fun Crossley ID Guide Giveaway. Are any of these plates your favorite? The photos [...]

The Future of Birding Field Guides is Specialization

By March 26, 2011 5 comments

The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds is undoubtedly the most innovative avian reference guide to come along in many years. In fact, the guide represents such a bold leap forward that reading it makes one wonder what the future of bird guides holds. This is why we asked readers to share their views on the [...]

The Future of Birding Field Guides is GISS

By March 24, 2011 13 comments

The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds is undoubtedly the most innovative avian reference guide to come along in many years. In fact, the guide represents such a bold leap forward that reading it makes one wonder what the future of bird guides holds. This is why we asked readers to share their views on the [...]

The Future of Birding Field Guides is Digital

By March 21, 2011 8 comments

The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds is undoubtedly the most innovative avian reference guide to come along in many years. In fact, the guide represents such a bold leap forward that reading it makes one wonder what the future of bird guides holds. This is why we asked readers to share their views on the [...]

Fun, Fun, Fun Crossley ID Guide Giveaway

By March 11, 2011 7 comments

The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds (read Corey’s review) is undeniably one of the most exciting and innovative bird guides to come along in a long time.  I for one couldn’t wait to get my hands on this book, loved it at first sight, and appreciate it even more after a month’s study. How about [...]

Review: Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil – The Pantanal & Cerrado of Central Brazil

By March 1, 2011 1 comment

“Our dream is to inspire a nation of potential birders who will delight in the beauty of Brazil’s abundant birdlife and become interested in helping to protect Brazil’s vibrant ecosystems and natural heritage.  It is our hope that this volume will provide the first sparks.” – John Gwynne and Martha Argel What does a field [...]

Review of The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds

By February 18, 2011 25 comments

The Crossley ID Guide from Princeton University Press has long been anticipated and has certainly been the subject of many discussions among birders across North America.  Now that it is in the hands of reviewers across the country we can see that it is unlike any other field guide we have ever seen.  It is [...]

Review: The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America

By September 17, 2010 6 comments

With a release date of 25 October 2010, The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America will likely be showing up on the wish lists of many a North American birder this holiday season.  Entirely illustrated by photographs, the main selling point of the new field guide is the sheer number of species [...]

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Jamaica

By May 23, 2010 3 comments

An era of phenomenal photographic field guides is dawning, its golden rays finally extending all the way to the blue-water beaches of the Caribbean islands. Only last year, I declared Birds of the West Indies by Herbert Raffaele to be the finest field guide to the entire region.  Visitors to Jamaica would still do well to purchase that excellent reference [...]

Birds of Borneo

By December 10, 2009 5 comments

I am a firm believer that birders should invest in two categories of field guide: those they will need and those they want to need. New guides and references for the areas you reliably visit increase your knowledge, which is a worthy endeavor indeed. But guides to parts of the world you’ve never yet visited, [...]

Birds of North America: Photographic Guides

By December 8, 2009 9 comments

In the arena of North American avian field guides, illustrated guides have reigned supreme. However, if one could imagine an arms race between illustrated guides and photographed ones, it is safe to say that the latter have taken huge strides in recent years in closing the gap. Sure, everyone loves The Sibley Guide to Birds [...]

Birds of the West Indies

By December 6, 2009 10 comments

Anyone who has ever visited the Greater or Lesser Antilles can attest that the 564 fantastic bird species known to appear in the West Indies deserve a high-quality field guide. The current consensus is that the finest field guide to the exotic archipelagos of the Caribbean is Birds of the West Indies by Herbert Raffaele. [...]

The Sibley Guide to Trees

By October 7, 2009 4 comments

I’ve been on record for years as endorsing David Allen Sibley’s masterwork, The Sibley Guide to Birds as the first and foremost reference guide for anyone at all who looks at North American birds. Whether you consider yourself a bird watcher or not, you’ll never regret having this book on hand. But does Sibley’s preeminence [...]

Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia

By August 28, 2009 2 comments

Shorebird season is upon us once again and with the waves of undifferentiated brown and gray birds arrives yet another resource by which to tell them apart. Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia: A Photographic Guide by Richard Chandler is an excellent addition to any shorebirder’s library. With only 217 species worldwide, shorebirds are [...]

The Birds of Mexico and Central America

By April 9, 2009 5 comments

My most recent birding excursion to Guatemala was immensely improved by the addition of two invaluable items. With my new Swarovski SLC 10x42s, I saw so much more than I ever had before. And with Birds of Mexico and Central America by Ber van Perlo, I was able to identify a lot more of what [...]

Howell and Webb’s ‘A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America’

By April 8, 2009 5 comments

If you have any plans to bird Mesoamerica you need to purchase A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America posthaste.  The two who put the guide together, Steve Howell, who did the text, and Sophie Webb, who did the plates, spent over seven years on the project and the expertise that [...]

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