Flight Paths is a splendid but risky title for a book about bird migration. It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation...

Birds of Hong Kong by Ray Tipper is portable and manageable, easy to carry and it fits into your vest pockets. In 176 pages,...

Miriam Darlington determined to take on an owl quest, to immerse herself in their world, as she says, and also to find out how...

Dave Gosney’s Finding Birds Series covers mostly the Western Palearctic and describes birding in various regions of Portugal, Spain, Morocco, France, Finland, Estonia, Poland,...

The first thing to note about the Field Guide to North American Flycatchers is the subtitle: Empidonax and Pewees. No Kingbirds, no Phoebes, no...

This field guide leaves me nothing short of impressed. It covers everything a birder wants to know about the world, and that is poorly...

The Great Egret was in breeding plumage and courtship posture–bright lime green lores, head bending down and then snapping up, long, impossibly delicate plumes...

Never trust a field guide publisher’s claim of a definitive text, because each new edition is certain to bring more a definitive text than...