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The Wonderfulness of Local Field Guides: Reviews of ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine & Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area

December 6, 2022 by Donna No Comments

At the end of 2022, let us celebrate the local field guide, a sub-genre that many of us feared would die, the victim of...

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

November 30, 2022 by Mark No Comments

This, 2022, has been a curious year for books about birds and birding. Despite the absence of two major publishers—Lynx and HMH–from the new...

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The Compact Australian Bird Guide: A Field Guide Review

November 1, 2022 by Donna No Comments

Australia has a lot of birds. The “Working List of Australian Birds, v.4,” published by BirdLife Australia lists 2,016 birds, but that includes subspecies...

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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

October 4, 2022 by Donna 5 Comments

In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y., a rural area in the eastern-central part of the state. Although Henslow’s had...

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

September 6, 2022 by Donna No Comments

Tim Birkhead loves to tell stories. They may be about bird eggs (The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg,...

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Is the project of the very best field guides in the world dead?!?

August 25, 2022 by Dragan 7 Comments

I understood that my favourite, and in my opinion the very best field guide series in the world – Lynx & Birdlife International –...

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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent–A Book Review

August 2, 2022 by Donna No Comments

Do Brown-headed Cowbirds really smell like freshly baked sugar cookies? Do Dark-eyed Juncos really smell like leaves and dirt or “ferns and Celestial Seasonings’...