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The Private Lives of Birds: A Scientist Reveals the Intricacies of Avian Social Life

The Private Lives of Birds: A Scientist Reveals the Intricacies of Avian Social Life
Bridget Stutchbury

An excellent introduction to the behavior and social lives of birds.

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Birdcountr

Birdcountr
An app for entering bird lists on the iPhone.

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The Wildlife of Costa Rica: A Field Guide

The Wildlife of Costa Rica: A Field Guide
Fiona A. Reid, Twan Leenders, Jim Zook, and Robert Dean

A nice general field guide to Costa Rica’s incredible wildlife.

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Bayshore Summer: Finding Eden in a Most Unlikely Place

Bayshore Summer: Finding Eden in a Most Unlikely Place
Pete Dunne

An insightful look at New Jersey’s bayshore in summer, by one of the best writers around.

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Birds of Peru: Revised and Updated Edition

Birds of Peru: Revised and Updated Edition
Thomas S. Schulenberg, Douglas F. Stotz, Daniel F. Lane, John P. O'Neill, and Theodore A. Parker III

An excellent field guide to this bird-rich country.

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National Geographic Bird Coloration

National Geographic Bird Coloration
Geoffrey E. Hill

A very enjoyable exploration of the most obvious physical characteristic of birds.

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    • ▼ 2010
      • ► August
        • Review Roundup: August, 2010
        • The Private Lives of Birds: A Scientist Reveals the Intricacies of Avian Social Life
        • Birdcountr
        • New Bird Books, Summer 2010
        • The Wildlife of Costa Rica: A Field Guide
        • Sibley Birds iPhone App Updated
      • ► July
        • Why So Many Bird Books?
        • Bayshore Summer: Finding Eden in a Most Unlikely Place
        • Review Roundup: July 11, 2010
      • ► June
        • Birds of Peru: Revised and Updated Edition
        • National Geographic Bird Coloration
      • ► May
        • My New Personal Birding Blog
        • All About Birds: A Short Illustrated History of Ornithology
        • More Details on The Crossley ID Guide
        • Two Birdbook Sites
      • ► April
        • The Sibley eGuide to the Birds of North America
        • Review Roundup: Birds of Europe
        • Afield: Forty Years of Birding the American West
      • ► March
        • The Breeding Bird Atlas of Georgia
        • The Sibley eGuide to the Birds of North America - Initial Review
        • Why I’m a Member of the American Birding Association…
        • A Couple of Updated Reviews
        • Birding the Great Lakes Seaway Trail
        • Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume 14: Bush-shrikes to Old World Sparrows
        • Reviews Coming Up
      • ► February
        • Upcoming Events in March, 2010
        • Watching Warblers / Watching Warblers WEST
        • New Sibley iPhone app
        • Review Roundup: February 11, 2010
        • Birding Lite: A Humorous How-to Guide for All Who Enjoy Watching Birds
      • ► January
        • The Birder's Library is on Facebook
        • Win copies of Falcons of North America and Prairie Spring
        • Review Roundup: January, 2010
        • Birding from the Hip
        • Someday...
        • Social Media for Birders
        • Happy New Year
    • ► 2009
      • ► December
        • Birds of Peru
        • iBird Explorer
        • iPhone Bird Guide Comparison
        • Win a Free Birding Trip to Peru
        • Review Roundup: December 8, 2009
        • The Boreal Owl Murder: A Bob White Birder Murder Mystery
        • Do Something for the Birds
      • ► November
        • Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume 13: Penduline-tits to Shrikes
        • Confusing Post
        • Books for Beginning Birders
        • In Hovering Flight
        • The Grand Circle: The National Parks of Utah, Grand Canyon, and Mesa Verde - May, 2008
        • Lift
      • ► October
        • Disclosure
        • Rating Changes
        • Birds of Eastern North America / Birds of Western North America: A Photographic Guide
        • Review Roundup: October 11, 2009
        • Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia: A Photographic Guide
      • ► September
        • Review Roundup: September 23, 2009
        • Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings
        • The Sibley Guide to...Trees?
        • Birdsong by the Seasons: A Year of Listening to Birds
      • ► August
        • Review Roundup: August, 2009
        • The Prairie Keepers: Secrets Of The Grasslands
        • First Look: Trogons: A Natural History of the Trogonidae
        • New Trogon Book
        • Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds
      • ► July
        • What a Deal!
        • Shorebird Guide Comparison
        • Reading Now, July '09
        • Review Roundup: July 1, 2009
      • ► June
        • Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience
        • Vivonne Bay Blue: Superb Blue Wrens of Kangaroo Island
        • Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds
        • The Next Standard in Field Guides?
      • ► May
        • Review Roundup: May 26, 2009
        • New Bird Books, Spring 2009
        • The Armchair Birder: Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds
      • ► April
        • Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South
        • Corvus: A Life with Birds Giveaway at 10,000 Birds
        • Review Roundup: April 21, 2009
        • The Sibley Guide - ONLINE
        • Book Review Blog Carnival #15
        • Lars Jonsson's Birds: Paintings from a Near Horizon
        • Review Roundup: April 6, 2009
        • Falcons of North America
      • ► March
        • A Guide to the Birds of East Africa
        • Creator's Glory: Photographs of the Wildlife of Grand Cayman Island
        • Owls of North America
        • Free Book - Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
        • The LBJ: Avian Life, Literary Arts
        • For anyone in the Atlanta area - Author Presentation and Nature Walk, March 28
        • FYI on the new Princeton Encyclopedia of Birds
        • The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology
      • ► February
        • Prairie Spring: A Journey Into the Heart of a Season
        • Bird Book Bargains - February 18, 2009
        • Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
        • More Reviews and Resources
        • Albatross: Their World, Their Ways
      • ► January
        • Birds in Flight: The Art and Science of How Birds Fly
        • Review Roundup: January 17, 2009
        • Birding For Everyone: Encouraging People of Color to Become Birdwatchers
        • Review Roundup: January 6, 2009
    • ► 2008
      • ► December
        • Bird Songs of Southeastern Arizona and Sonora, Mexico
        • Birder's Conservation Handbook: 100 North American Birds at Risk
        • Review Roundup: December 13, 2008
        • Books for Christmas
        • Children's Bird Books
        • Review Roundup: December 1, 2008
      • ► November
        • Truly Essential
        • Seabirds: A Natural History
        • Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival in Harlingen, Texas
      • ► October
        • The Owl and the Woodpecker: Encounters With North America's Most Iconic Birds
        • Review Roundup: October 28, 2008
        • Remarkable Birds - The Top 100
        • Remarkable Birds: 100 of the World's Most Notable Birds
        • Interview with Pete Dunne
        • WildBird Magazine's Birder of the Year Contest
        • Birding Festivals
        • Review Roundup: October 5, 2008
        • A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All
      • ► September
        • Review Roundup: In Print, September '08
        • To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession
        • Review Roundup: In Print, July and August '08
        • "Connecting People with Nature" Video Series - further details
        • Hummingbirds: Marvels of Mother Nature
      • ► August
        • Review Roundup: Roger Tory Peterson Edition
        • Peterson's Legacy
        • Birdwatch Radio Podcasts
        • Review Roundup: August 21, 2008
        • Peterson Giveaway Results
        • Birding on Borrowed Time
        • Peterson Guide Giveaway
      • ► July
        • Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America
        • The New Peterson Guide: A Plate-by-Plate Comparison
        • Review Roundup: July 18, 2008
        • First Look: Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America
        • The New Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America
        • Site Redesign
        • The Wind Masters: The Lives of North American Birds of Prey
      • ► June
        • Review Roundup: In Print, June '08
        • A Fantastic Article about Photographic Field Guides
        • Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America
        • Review Roundup: The Smithsonian Guide Edition
        • A Field Guide to the Photographic Field Guides of North America
        • First Look: Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America
      • ► May
        • Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson
        • Review Roundup: In Print, May '08
        • Review Roundup: May 22, 2008
        • Review Roundup: New Field Guides - May, 2008
        • On Feathered Wings: Birds in Flight
        • Amazon.com Bargains - May 13, 2008
        • Review Roundup: In Print, April '08
        • More Tales of a Low-Rent Birder
      • ► April
        • Shelfari: A Community for Bibliophiles
        • Between the Wingtips: The Secret Life of Birds
        • New Bird Books to be Published in April and May, 2008
        • Review Roundup: April 17, 2008
        • Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land
        • A Tribute to Pete Dunne
        • Review Roundup: In Print, March '08
        • The Life of the Skies Giveaway
        • Flights Against the Sunset: Stories that Reunited a Mother and Son
      • ► March
        • A Complete Guide to Arctic Wildlife
        • Review Roundup: March 24, 2008
        • I and the Bird #71 - A Bird Blog Carnival
        • Amazon.com Bargains - March 18, 2008
        • The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
        • How The Sibley Guide Made me a Birder: A Birding Testimony
        • Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips From North America's Top Birders
        • Review Roundup: March 7, 2008
        • More Field Guides to North American Birds on the Way
        • A Guide to the Identification and Natural History of the Sparrows of the United States and Canada
      • ► February
        • Review Roundup: In Print, February '08
        • Some Good Bargains at Amazon.com
        • Wings for My Flight: The Peregrine Falcons of Chimney Rock
        • Bird Book Reviews in the Blogosphere
        • Scarlet Macaws and a new Kenn Kaufman book!
        • Good deal on To See Every Bird on Earth
        • Welcome to the NEW Birder's Library
        • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
        • Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival
      • ► January
        • Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die
        • Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die - The List
    • ► 2007
      • ► December
        • Penguins of the World
        • Colorado: April 14-25, 2007
        • Gatherings of Angels: Migrating Birds and Their Ecology
      • ► November
        • Birds of Europe
        • Long-Legged Wading Birds of the North American Wetlands
        • Living Bird
        • Chasing Birds Across Texas: A Birding Big Year
      • ► October
        • Flying over the Pyrenees, Standing on the Plains
      • ► September
        • Raptors of North America: Natural History and Conservation
      • ► August
        • The Sound Approach to Birding
      • ► July
        • White-tailed Ptarmigan: Ghosts of the Alpine Tundra
        • Galapagos Diary: A Complete Guide to the Archipelago's Birdlife
      • ► June
        • The Great Auk, or Garefowl
      • ► May
        • Albatrosses, Petrels and Shearwaters of the World
      • ► April
        • The Sibley Guide to Birds
      • ► March
        • Birding in the American West: A Handbook
        • Life List
        • 101 Ways to Help Birds
        • Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America
      • ► February
        • Migrating Raptors of the World: Their Ecology and Conservation
        • Arena Birds: Sexual Selection and Behavior
        • Hummingbirds of Costa Rica
        • National Geographic Field Guide - Comparison of the 4th and 5th editions
        • National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Fifth Edition
      • ► January
        • John James Audubon and The Birds of America: A Visionary Achievement in Ornithology Illustration
        • How to be a Better Birder: Travel Stories
        • A Guide to Bird Watching
    • ► 2006
      • ► December
        • The Big Twitch
        • A Guide to the Birds of the Southeastern States: Florida, Georgia, Alabama, And Mississippi
        • The Verb 'To Bird'
        • Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion
        • Gulls of North America, Europe, and Asia
        • A Field Guide to Warblers of North America (Peterson Guide)
        • Shorebirds of North America: The Photographic Guide
        • The Shorebird Guide
        • Sparrows of the United States and Canada: The Photographic Guide
        • Hawks from Every Angle: How to Identify Raptors In Flight
        • Tanagers, Cardinals, and Finches of the United States and Canada: The Photographic Guide
        • Raptors of North America: The Wheeler Guides
  • Books I'm Reading

  • New and Upcoming

    • Bird Feathers: A Guide to North American Species, by S. David Scott and Casey McFarland
    • Birds of Australia: Eighth Edition, by Ken Simpson and Nicolas Day
    • Peterson Reference Guide to Molt in North American Birds, by Steve N.G. Howell
    • Nightjars, Potoos, Frogmouths, Oilbird, and Owlet-nightjars of the World, by Nigel Cleere
    • Birds of Cape May, New Jersey, by Kevin T. Karlson
    • The Private Lives of Birds: A Scientist Reveals the Intricacies of Avian Social Life, by Bridget Stutchbury

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