10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

Here are three excellent but very different children’s books I enjoyed this year (two were published in 2013, one in 2011). Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). Lee & Low Books, October 2013. SeaGrove Press, July 2013.

Puerto Rico 237

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 237

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2014

Wright and Small offer additional material, illustrating anatomical parts, like wing stripe, tail band, and rump, that are used in the species accounts. The book ends with the “Checklist of the Birds of New Jersey” as of 2013, a Species Index (by popular and scientific name), and, on the very last page, a Quick Index.

New Jersey 246

New Jersey Birds 2014 Tail Banding 246

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Yet, it is amazing how many identification features are evident in his bird pictures—the fire-red head, streaked back, white wing bars, and white-tipped tertials of the Western Tanager, the white tail band on the Eastern Kingbird, the black-bordered white eyebrow of the Red-eyed Vireo. by Charley Harper. Hardcover, 152 pages.

Betty Crocker 170

Betty Crocker 2008 Birds 2007 170