Hopefully, you’ve gotten all of your Christmas shopping done by now. But just in case, here are some suggestions for any bird bibliophile in your life.
Field Guides
No birder will ever mind getting another field guide. I don’t think it’s even possible to have too many! Here are the latest for North America.
National Geographic Field Guide [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America’
Here are some bird book reviews that I’ve come across recently.
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America
The House and other Arctic musings
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Here are some bird book reviews from magazines and journals published in September, 2008 (along with one I forgot to include in the last installment - oops).
Birding - July/August2008 (Vol. 40, No. 4)
Birds of Peru, by Thomas S. Schulenberg, Douglas F. Stotz, Daniel F. Lane, John [...]
Roger Tory Peterson’s recent birthday did not go unnoticed around the web. Here are links to many recent reviews of books by and about Peterson. I had meant to publish this list this past week while on vacation, but never found the time. It was just as well, as I discovered many more today after [...]
Congratulations to Jared Mizanin, who won a copy of the new Peterson guide with his story of how Roger Tory Peterson has impacted his life.
However, it doesn’t appear that anyone took a crack at the second copy, which is a shame since it was the easiest way to enter. You didn’t even need your own [...]
Thanks to Houghton Mifflin, I have two copies of the new Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America to giveaway. There are two ways that you can win a copy:
Tell how Roger Tory Peterson has impacted you as a person or birder. This may have been in person, but it doesn’t have [...]
by Roger Tory Peterson
This combination of the Peterson guides to Eastern and Western North America has been extensively updated and enhanced. These changes, and the wonderful art, create a guide that is worth checking out.
For the most part, the new Peterson guide uses the same plates that Roger Tory Peterson had prepared for his Eastern and Western regional guides. However, some significant changes have been made. Some new species have been added, most due to taxonomic splits, but others because of new records. Conversely, some species have been [...]
As you can see, the new Peterson guide (in the middle) is significantly larger than the last edition of the eastern regional guide. It even approaches the “large Sibley” in size. Naturally, since this new book covers all the species in North America, you would expect it to be thicker. But the trim size has [...]
August of 2008 marks the centennial of the birth of Roger Tory Peterson, one of the 20th century’s most influential people. To commemorate the event, Houghton Mifflin is publishing a new version of Peterson’s field guide to birds, a book whose importance to birding and conservation cannot be overstated. This volume combines the previously separate [...]
