Here are some recent bird and nature book reviews from around the web.
Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America
Birdfreak.com - The Bird Conservation Blog
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Here are a few reviews I’ve stumbled across lately.
A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All
OnEarth (publication of the Natural Resources Defense Council
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I’ve gotten a little behind on this. Here are some bird book and product reviews from magazines and journals published in July and August, 2008.
Bird Watcher’s Digest - Vol. 31 No. 1, Sept/October 2008
Flights Against the Sunset: Stories that Reunited a Mother and Son, by Kenn [...]
Here are a few recent reviews from that wonderful thing that we call the internet.
The Life of the Skies - Aimophila Adventures, Atlanta Journal and Constitution (yes, a newspaper!)
Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America - The House [...]
by Ted Floyd
This photographic field guide is a worthy addition to your identification arsenal. And the DVD of bird songs that is also included is a very nice bonus.
Hopefully I will finally publish my review of the Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America tomorrow. But in the meantime, here are some other reviews of this book to tide everyone over. It looks like the consensus opinion is that this guide is worth getting.
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A comparison and recommendation for the photographic field guides to North American birds…
This afternoon I found the new Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America waiting for me on the porch. I haven’t had time to go through it extensively, much less write a review, but I thought some of you may appreciate a quick look at it.
Here are some looks at the guide. [...]
The Smithsonian guide is coming out later this month, and looks very interesting. The Young Birder’s Guide has been universally praised. Check it out if you have, or know, kids who may be interested in birds.
The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Peterson [...]
Here is a selection of bird books that will be published shortly.
The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Peterson Field Guides)
Bill Thompson III
April 30, 2008 (Amazon has it in stock now)
The early remarks on this are universally enthusiastic. If you know a kid in eastern NA who is, or may become, interested [...]
