I finally started a separate blog for non-book stuff – trip reports, news, and the like. I’m not abandoning this site, though it may feel like I already have with as little time as I’ve had to devote to it lately. I’ll try to post more regularly, I promise. Anyway, come by and check it […]
Archive for 2010
May 25, 2010
All About Birds: A Short Illustrated History of Ornithology
Reviews, Books, Miscellaneousby Valerie Chansigaud
An attractive and concise overview of those who have shaped our knowledge of birds.
A while back, I wrote about a promising looking field guide that Richard Crossley was working on. Since then, Princeton University Press has announced that they will publish The Crossley ID Guide. The guide isn’t coming out until next year, but some details have already been released, and now I really can’t wait to get […]
I feel bad for not having posted much lately, everything’s just been so busy. But at least there are a couple of guys out there working hard to bring you news and information on some books…. Jack Holloway has been feverishly updating his Avian Books site. He has been going through his extensive listings, updating […]
North America’s best field guide comes to the iPhone.
The recently published second edition of the Birds of Europe field guide has been long awaited in Europe (where it’s known as Collins Bird Guide). But it has also received a lot of attention over here across the Atlantic. And rightly so, it’s a fantastic guide. I will be reviewing it shortly, but in the […]
by Alan Contreras
A chronicle of over forty years spent in the field watching birds.
by Todd M. Schneider, Giff Beaton, Timothy S. Keyes, and Nathan A. Klaus
A very useful and informative account of the breeding birds in the state of Georgia.
North America’s most popular field guide is now available as an app on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Here is an initial review, focusing on the meat of the app – the species accounts. A full review will follow. The app is a fairly straightforward and faithful port of the Sibley print guides, both the […]
… 20 pages of bird book review-ey goodness! That’s right, the latest issue of Birding, the magazine of the American Birding Association (ABA), contains reviews of 12 books, covering a total of 20 pages. And I wish I could write reviews as well as these people do. Of course, this issue is an aberration; apparently, […]
