Posts Tagged ‘The Sibley Guide to Birds Second Edition’

Update 11/17/2015: According to a Knopf representative, this replacement program has ended. Here’s some great news for anyone who bought the second edition of The Sibley Guide when it was first published, only to be disappointed by color reproduction and type readability (more details in my Initial Review). The publisher, Knopf (a division of Random […]

Before we get started, I want to say that this is by no means a definitive list. I’ve seen a lot of bird books in 2014, but not nearly all of them. Two in particular – Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World, Volume 1 and H is for Hawk – have been highly […]

Here are the last of the bird book reviews from 2014. Looking forward to many more in 2015. The Sibley Guide to Birds, 2nd Edition (second printing) Nature Travel Network When Eagles Roar: The Amazing Journey of an African Wildlife Adventurer Nature Travel Network Ducks, Geese, and Swans of North America The Well-read Naturalist American […]

When the second edition of The Sibley Guide was published earlier this year, there were clearly some issues with it. The most serious of those was color reproduction on some plates and a light text font that could make it hard to read. But a recently released second printing has corrected those issues. The text […]

Here are some more great reviews from around the net. Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide Avian Review Facing Extinction: The World’s Rarest Birds and the Race to Save Them The Well-read Naturalist Must-See Birds of the Pacific Northwest The Well-read Naturalist Birdfinding in British Columbia ABA Blog Rare Birds of North America ABA […]

Sorry for the late post, hopefully I didn’t miss many reviews from last month. Peterson Reference Guide to Seawatching: Eastern Waterbirds in Flight The Eyrie The Sibley Guide to Birds, 2nd Edition The Eyrie The American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of Colorado Avian Review Guide to Troubled Birds Birding is Fun! The […]

A while back the American Birding Association announced that it would no longer be publishing book reviews in Birding, its flagship magazine, in favor of posting them on its new blog. I wasn’t too sure about that. These were consistently the best reviews around, written by very knowledgeable (dare I say “famous”) birders, and were […]

Here are some bird book reviews from the last month to check out. (Happy Star Wars day!) The Sibley Guide to Birds of North America, Second edition 10,000 Birds The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild A DC Birding Blog The Thing with Feathers Birding is Fun! Look! A Seagull Washington Independent Review of Books […]

This edition of Review Roundup is much later than usual, as I’ve been spending much of my free time transcribing notes and entering data from my Peru trip. But now that I’m done, I can get on with other things…like actually reading and reviewing books 🙂 The Sibley Guide to Birds of North America, Second […]