Archive for 2012

May the bird book reviews be with you. The Lord God Bird The Well-read Naturalist National Geographic Bird-Watcher’s Bible 10,000 Birds Birding is Fun! Birdfreak Laura’s Birding Blog Hawks in Flight: Second Edition 10,000 Birds Laura’s Birding Blog What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World Rosyfinch Ramblings The Well-read […]

Birds of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan by Raffael Ayé, Manuel Schweizer, and Tobias Roth From Princeton University Press: Central Asia–a vast and remote area of steppe, semi-desert, and mountains separating Europe from eastern Asia–is home to a diversity of birds. Birds of Central Asia is the first-ever field guide to the […]

Check out this Spring 2013 Preview from Princeton University Press. Of particular interest is a new entry in the Crossley ID Guide series on raptors, as well as The Warbler Guide. From the description, it appears that the latter’s title is intentionally evocative of the groundbreaking The Shorebird Guide, as it “Includes field exercises, flight […]

For a limited time (October 8-12, 2012), you can download A Murder of Crows: A Bob White Birder Murder Mystery for FREE from Amazon. This is the fifth book in Jan Dunlap’s Birder Murder series. (Here’s a review of the first entry, The Boreal Owl Murder.)

Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England by Kenn Kaufman and Kimberly Kaufman From Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Whether you’re walking in the woods or along the beach, camping, hiking, canoeing, or just enjoying your own backyard, this book will help identify all your nature discoveries. With authoritative and broad coverage, using nontechnical and lively […]

Steve N.G. Howell is posting a series on how to write a bird book. Lots here for anyone who loves bird books, not just prospective authors. I’m really looking forward to the rest of the series.

I love the smell of bird book reviews in the morning. Hawks in Flight: Second Edition Florida Keys Hawkwatch The Drinking Bird Birding is Fun! A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia 10,000 Birds The Feather Quest Bird Ephemera Drawn From Paradise: The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise […]