“Space for Birds” — a book review
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 23, 2024
Bondar’s handsome new book of photographs, Space for Birds: Patterns and Parallels of Beauty and Flight, comes in two halves, but it has several subjects and multiple viewpoints.
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The Bird Way: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
It was a pleasure to make these observations at the same time I was reading The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think , Jennifer Ackerman’s new book about the diversity and complexity of bird behavior. Many popular science books have neither.
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Flights of Passage: a book review
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2021
Last year there was a spate of books specifically about bird “behavior” – though one might well say that every book about birds, from field guides on up, is about behavior in some way or another. It’s the behavior that makes them fascinating to us. Well, purely physical attributes play a part, too: they’re pretty good looking.).
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Birding in Greece – birdfinder book review
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 7, 2014
True, because of higher precipitation, more luxurious vegetation and higher diversity of altitudes and habitats, east Macedonia and Thrace may offer better birding and a longer bird list, but for those, there is a more informative new book, Birdwatching in Northern Greece – a site guide by Steve Mills (2011, 2nd edition).
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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
I wish I had read this book. The book was originally published in 2006 as Galápagos: A Natural History with John Kricher as the sole author. Kricher is well-known in naturalist book circles as a scientist who can write about complex scientific topics in engaging smart prose touched with just the right amount of dry wit.
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Birding for the Curious: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
This is the book you will want to give to everyone in your life who has said ‘I’d like to bird too, but ….(fill Not only is Nate a birding and blogging colleague, but Mike Bergin, 10,000 Birds co-publisher, has written the Foreword and I have been threatened with all sorts of birder-type punishment if I give this book a bad review.
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Learning the Birds: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2022
It’s the subject of the eleventh essay in this collection, almost smack in the middle of the 22 pieces that comprise the book. and then the life and writings of Harriet Mann Miller, a New York State native who under the name Olive Thorne Miller wrote eleven books and hundreds of articles about nature in the mid- and late 19th century.
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HOW BIRDS SLEEP: A KidLit Bird Book Review
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2024
Bedtime books. They are books that children will love and adults can read, and re-read, over weeks, months and often years. What one thing do parents of younger children always need? The best ones are interesting but soothing, familiar yet new.
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Around the World For Penguins: A Penguin Fan’s Book Review
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Penguins are cartoons, emoticons, animated films, children’s books (though owls really take first place here), sports teams, a book publisher, and a Batman villain (a rare example of penguin negativity, though Burgess Meredith did bring an endearing attitude to his 1960’s TV portrayal).
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The Birds That Audubon Missed: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2024
It’s a decidedly different direction for the author of Kingbird Highway (1997), Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America (2005), and A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration (2019), to cite just three of his books, and one that I thoroughly enjoyed, underlined with energy, and am still thinking about.
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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
It’s a big subject that has been embraced by biologists Barbara Ballentine and Jeremy Hyman in Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication, a largish, book recently published by Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press. It encompasses movement and plumage and even smell. And, that’s it.
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Will bird books go the way of the Dodo?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
I’m sitting writing this in my study, its walls lined with books on birds and natural history. However, a worrying thought has struck me: is the book as we know it doomed, destined to die out as surely as the Dodo and the Passenger Pigeon?
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Birding Under the Influence: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
This added layer elevates Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery from a book of fun birding and travel adventures to a more complex memoir about the ways in which birding spurs self-reflection, motivates life change, feeds a need for wonder, and creates community. This is a smartly written book.
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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
One of the reasons I enjoy about reviewing books is the opportunity to read titles I wouldn’t ordinarily encounter, not because they aren’t good but because they don’t fall easily into a category. Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. I understand why Fuller created this book.
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The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2024
Taking inspiration from Matthiessen’s 1967 book (long out of print), which combined his natural history essays with species accounts by Ralph S. It is pointedly not an identification guide, though there is a lot of identification information in it, and it is not a coffee table book, though every page is illustrated.
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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
This, 2022, has been a curious year for books about birds and birding. Despite the absence of two major publishers—Lynx and HMH–from the new title publishing scene (hopefully not permanently), we were happily surprised to read and peruse many excellent books. But this is more than a coffee table book. Highly recommended.
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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2023
Species Accounts are organized by family according to the 61st Supplement (2020) of the AOS Checklist of North and Middle American Birds (the 62nd Supplement came out while the book was in production, which is to be expected). But perhaps that’s for a different book. These books are concerned with behavior.
Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2023
Flight Paths is a splendid but risky title for a book about bird migration. It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or space navigation or even a flight simulator game if you don’t read the long, adjective-filled subtitle: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration.
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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
For endangered species, red and gray tabs at the top of the page indicate level of threatened status from the IUCN and the Libro Rogo de los Vertebrados Cubanos (Red Data Book for Cuban Vertebrates). The book includes lots of space for Notes. This means that it has some interesting features, which may or may not work in practice.
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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2020
Fortunately, with a prescience that’s a little scary, David Allen Sibley has created a book perfect for beginning birders (and the rest of us): What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing–What Birds Are Doing, and Why. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.
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Gulls Simplified: A Gull Book Review
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2018
In a birding world that celebrates identification, there are surprisingly few articles and books on gull identification.** There’s been a lot of excitement about this book. Pete Dunne has written and co-written 21 books (by my count, Wikipedia needs to update its entry!) This is their second co-authored book.
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The most important book about European birds in this century
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2021
And ten years later, I found my name among the data providers in this magnificent book – possibly the most important ornithological publication in Europe in the 21st century, so far. This book has an imposing presence on every desk: a 24 × 31 cm / 9.4 Original artwork illustrates all species with a full account.
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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2021
This is the charm of Lima’s book. The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year. The book is structured in a way that made much more sense after I read it than as I was reading it. But, in Chapter Three the book takes on more shape. ” I wondered.
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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2021
It provides goals and a definite direction for your birding travels and thoughts; sometimes it even becomes the basis of a book! It is also one of the photographs by author Jon Dunn that appears in the book itself. One of Dunn’s biggest challenges in writing this book, I imagine, was describing the objects of his passion.
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The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New Jersey: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2014
And, if the first book in the series, the American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New Jersey by Rick Wright (author) and Brian E. As I noted above, organization is a particular problem with bird books aimed at beginner birders, and there are guides that are based on color or other systems that pair look-alike species together.
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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2022
The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent focuses on this last question, but you might find yourself fascinated by the first two, which come early in the book but linger on in the imagination as author Danielle J. ” (p. Author Danielle Whittaker, © Nicole Cottam.
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“They fly and fly until there’s no more ocean to fly over” — a review of the book “Shearwater”
10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2021
In six or seven months, the “best books of the year” features will come out in the important print and web publications. A few people share parts of this story and this book with the author – Ph.D. Even more curiously, that book has, it appears, little or nothing to do with Shearwaters. Stay tuned.]
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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God. It’s a huge scope for a 338-page book. With Birkhead, you never know what’s going to come next.
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Cuckoo: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2024
You gotta love Cuckoos. Not just the Common Cuckoo or the Yellow-billed Cuckoo, you must love the whole family Cuculidae, all 32 general and 148 species of them, from Anis to Roadrunners to Coucals to Lizard Cuckoos to Koels to Malkohas to Drongo-Cuckoos to Hawk-Cuckoos.*
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Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2024
Bird Day is a lovely, little jewel of a book. Hauber and artist Tony Angell fulfills this goal beautifully and was the factor that motivated me to review this book. The essays also touch on conservation, though less that the amount I would have assumed would be in a book that is part of an “Earth Day” series.
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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
” The book in question is Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide , edited and written by Sebastian K. The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book. The downside of the size (and quality of paper) is that this is a fairly heavy book, about 2.5
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BE STRONG: THE RISE OF BELOVED PUBLIC ART SCULPTOR NANCY SCHÖN: A KidLit Bird Book Review
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2024
It’s Nancy’s Schön’s “Make Way for Ducklings” series of sculptures, based on the 1941 book by Robert McCloskey. One of the world’s most well-known bird sculptures delights the public in both Boston and Moscow. Award-winning children’s author and publisher Darcy… Source
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Book Giveaway: Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2017
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Donna just wrote a review of this excellent book of essays which especially includes a stellar look at why New York City birding is the best birding. Because there are three copies of the book to give away we have three different ways you can get one of the books.
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Mastering Bird Photography: A Book Review by an Amateur Bird Photographer
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
The full title of this exceptional book by Marie Read is Mastering Bird Photography: The Art, Craft, and Technique of Photographing Birds and Their Behavior. In this new book, she puts everything she has learned in over 30 years of wildlife photography down in writing.
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Saving Jemima and Julie: a Book Review
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2019
The last time a Julie Zickefoose book was reviewed on this blogsite, the piece began by saying “This is going to be a rave review.” That sentence will do for this review and this book, too: it’s unavoidable. On a couple of different levels, this is a wonderful story and a terrific book.
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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
This shouldn’t have to be stated, especially in a book on bird evolution by an evolutionary biologist with a Ph.D. But, ‘synthesis’ is a dry word, and this is a book with a quiet yet firm personality underlying its words. The book is smartly organized into 12 chapters. This is a book that requires attention.
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Bird Books for Children: From Colors & Shapes to Discovering Central Park
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2019
It’s never too late or too early to buy a children’s book about birds. It’s been a few years since my last roundup of children’s bird books, and children’s book writers, illustrators and publishers continue to produce picture books that feature avian protagonists. First, the board books.
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Journeys With Emperors: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Journeys With Penguins: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin is a different type of penguin book. It’s all about the improbable intersection of human beings and Emperor Penguins, and if I can’t make it to an Emperor Penguin colony (highly unlikely), reading this book has been the next best thing. Author Gerald L.
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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2016
This book is a field guide treat for traveling birders and birders who love to fantasize about travel, answering that age-old question, “I’m going on a trip to [fill in the blank—Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras], what field guide should I use?”. Of course, this is an identification guide, not a coffee table book.
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Raptors of Mexico and Central America: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2017
There are some impressive images here, and the book design allows some of the best to be shown off at full and three-quarter page size. The Introduction also gives an outline of the book two sections, with background on how to use certain sections, including an extensive explanation of molt and its terminology. Maybe with a book cover.)
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Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2017
2) This is a NEW book edited by Lisa A. 4) It is a delightful, engaging book. It is a fact that the book fulfills the promise of its subtitle. This story of avian hatred may be the most revolutionary essay in a book full of paeans to birds and birding.). White and Jeffrey A. Gordon, illustrated by Robert A. Braunfield.
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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2020
Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. Because, as this book demonstrates so well, it is sometimes important to look back in order to move forward. “Wait!”
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A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World’s Most Misunderstood Bird: A Book Review by a Pigeon Cynic
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 4, 2022
Mosco is also the author of Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Cartoons about the Natural World (2018, a collection of Bird and Moon comics); co-author of several children’s books, including The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid (2018) with Dylan Thuras and Joy Ang, Butterflies Are Pretty … Gross!
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Peterson Guide to Bird Identification—In 12 Steps: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2018
Two reactions on receiving my review copy from publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: (1) Small book, colorful design, (2) There really are 12 steps and they are not in the order I expected. Especially 10, because, this being a book co-authored by Steve Howell, plumage quickly becomes a tutorial on molt. This is a deceptively good book.
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