10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

Karlson and Dale Rosselet in Birding by Impression: A Different Approach to Knowing and Identifying Birds, the latest addition to the Peterson Reference Guide series and a book likely to revive the continuing discussion about the merits of GISS (the term used in the book, as opposed to the popular jizz ) versus traditional bird identification.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It took me a while to wrap my mind around the concept of Birds and People , Mark Cocker and David Tipling’s book that, in 592 pages, explores the intersection of just that—birds and us. Still, I found it a little disjointing that a book has been written about our relationship with birds. So, I just sit here, amazed at this book.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. 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.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2024

Looking for a bird book that has appeal to cross the generations, one that will delight both the preschooler and the seasoned birder? Ignotofsky is best known for her 2016 book Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World, of which Scientific American noted “The world needs more books like this.”

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

There is a long list of articles and books on how to feed birds in your yard. So, I was happy to see the publication of a book on all aspects of wild bird feeding—history, culture, and economics. It is a serious book with a friendly attitude. It turned out, many people. million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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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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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

Life Along the Delaware Bay: Cape May, Gateway to a Million Shorebirds , by Lawrence Niles, Joanna Burger, and Amanda Dey, is a book with a mission. The numbers, as detailed in this book, are alarming: the horseshoe crab harvest grew from less than 100,000 in 1992 to over 2.5 million in the late 1990’s.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

This is what happens when you read a book like Frogs and Toads of the World , by Chris Mattison. A book about all the frogs and toads of the world is an ambitious undertaking. This seemingly boundless diversity comes through in every chapter of this book, and is both its strength and its weakness.

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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. Colonialism and appropriation of knowledge is discussed in Chapter 6, The New World of Science.

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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. This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I could go on and on, it’s that kind of a book—a comprehensive treatment of a species we respect and adore, based on the most current research, written in a style that, while factual, is from the author’s viewpoint, flavoring facts with a witty, observant personal quality. Scott Weidensaul is a nature writer with roots in journalism.

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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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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. Howell and Brian L. 16, below).”

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

And so, I turn to Better Birding: Tips, Tools & Concepts for the Field , the new book by George L. This is a very different book from what I expected, less of a handbook and more of a comprehensive identification text on 24 groups of birds, presented in words and photographs. Armistead and Brian L.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Recently, I’ve reviewed a number of well-designed and interesting books on birds. As I read, I realized that I had encountered books very much like this before. But not, mind you, on any shelf of popular science or ornithological memoir. People who are into birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2013

It’s a sign, I think, when I receive a book to review and realize I just bought the same book, on my own recognizance, for my own pleasure. Also a sign when I spot other books by the same author on the shelf in the office of a member of my thesis committee, and on my own Christmas wish list. This is a good book.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2021

Jim Wright’s latest book is The Real James Bond , the biography of the ornithologist whose name Ian Fleming stole for his secret agent 007. He writes “The Bird Watcher” column for the USA today newspapers in N.J. He is a deputy Marsh Warden for the Celery Farm Natural Area in Allendale, N.J.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Guiding aside, Howell is a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences and the author of many books, including Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America (Princeton). and I am glad to see this bold move in this book.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

How to Be a Better Birder is a very different kind of birding book, and, once you think about it, the perfect book to be written at this particular moment in the birding universe. He writes about how experienced birders think, and how they draw on the sciences of weather, geography, and ecology to analyze where the birds will be.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

It takes a skilled hand to make the characters and threads equally compelling, and if they are not, the book feels unbalanced. So I will only say that it made me infavorably disposed towards the book, and you can draw your own conclusions. This is a book that people come to for the plot and the science. But what of that?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The single greatest challenge facing any book of science writing is balance. Otherwise, there would be no science writing, everyone would just go straight to the journals. Pinyon Jay by Dave Menke of the US FWS. This Pinyon Jay knows what you did last summer, at least when it comes to stealing pine nuts.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How did you come up with the idea for the book? The book is darkly funny. photo by John Huba.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

But, sometimes an appreciation of birds and birding requires more than a reference book with images of birds and facts about their identifying field marks. There are large avian handbooks and small ‘how-to bird’ guides, and quite a few excellent books of both types have been published. And, each essay tells a story.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The task of wrestling this topic down into something that the human mind can manage, without losing sight of the big picture because it’s snowing in Buffalo, is likely to be the task of a lifetime for many science communicators. On the whole, if you consider yourself one of the above, you should consider adding this book to your shelf.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2024

My aunt Greet gave me a book in 1975 that featured the 60 most endangered birds in Europe. In the book, one picture stood out in particular: the White-headed Duck. For lack of better pictures that was the one that got used in the book (out of print – ISBN 90 274 8348 5). Buy the book and take a week!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

It is not a book for every birder, but it will be a fascinating read for those who love albatrosses, shearwaters, petrels, storm-petrels–you know, tubenoses–as well as penguins, gannets, cormorants, and pretty much every bird family that spends most of its life at sea. Bruce Pearson is the book illustrator.

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Critter News

MARCH 31, 2009

For those who can't handle the visuals, now it's available as an audio book. Earthlings is a feature-length documentary about how dependent human beings are on animals, primarily in five key areas: pets, food, clothing, entertainment and science. It's supposed to be so intense, it turns people into vegans (Ellen DeGeneres for one.)

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

We received an email about a new book being released by Lantern Books. Change Of Heart provides science-based answers to many questions that are hotly debated among animal activists. Rory Freedman, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Skinny Bitch, proclaims “If you want to create a better world, read this book!”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2018

Every once in a while you stumble on a new natural history book that seems destined to be a classic. Reilly also has a deft hand for style – accessible, friendly, and with occasional glints of humor that accent but don’t intrude on the science. There is little doubt in my mind that it will come to be considered essential.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2017

He has recorded over 20 new bird records for Honduras, dozens of new butterflies, new orchid records and even new species for science. If there was a bird book available for that country I’ll bet that it was, in fact, written only in English. You can help this effort by donating toward the printing of books.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

It’s a matter of personal preference: neither does every reader like, say, science fiction, or the writing of Henry James, or romance novels. Each book involves a new crime (or several) to solve, but otherwise the characters live in a continuing story. There’s no accounting for taste. Fair enough.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2016

To be fair, he was slightly better positioned to do so, being a professor of biological sciences with the University of Nebraska. While the book as whole is both pleasurable and educational, I found the section on Sandhill Cranes to be the most engaging. That issue aside, this is a book well worth seeking out.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., Time will tell how much good science can be wrung from the data (due to observer bias, misidentifications, the vastly differing skillsets of contributing observers, under-birded areas, etc.), 6) Taxonomy.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2016

If you take only one thing away from this review, let it be this: Do not be intimidated by this book! Even with all this to draw on, the book still could have been a slog with its minute daily accounts of islands visited, blackflies endured, and Fox Sparrows shot were it not for Logan’s native talents.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Those books – notably Lapwings, Loons, and Lousyjacks by Ray Reedman – tend to be divided taxonomically. Most of the book has a relatively jolly, though not unserious, tone – this can be a bit jarring when discussing, say, the European invasion of Australia, but suits most of his subject matter well.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2013

I deal with this sort of illness by lying in a hot bath drinking wine and revisiting beloved books of my youth, and this time out I chose Unexplained! , You see, I also spent some time lately recuperating from a bad cold (all the smoke everywhere does not help.) Some of those mysterious creatures were birds. Now why should this be?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

This has allowed me to move from having an opinion to owning the truth in all that I say, and being invariably correct in all that I do, regardless of what others say or write – be it in casual conversations, books, or in scientific publications. Then again, science is definitely wrong in stating that goatsuckers have legs.

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