Posts Tagged ‘The Ascent of Birds: How Modern Science is Revealing their Story’

by John Reilly

An engaging exploration of the origins, evolution, and diversity of birds.

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This list is always hard to come up with. What to include? 2018 saw the publication of several field guides and family ID guides, but only one of the ones I saw really stood out enough for me to include here. (I haven’t spent enough time with Pete Dunne and Keven Karlson’s Gulls Simplified yet […]
The Ascent of Birds: How Modern Science is Revealing their Story by John Reilly From Pelagic Publishing: When and where did the ancestors of modern birds evolve? What enabled them to survive the meteoric impact that wiped out the dinosaurs? How did these early birds spread across the globe and give rise to the 10,600-plus […]