Gotta love seeing all these bird book reviews from last month. The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds The Nemesis Bird Extreme Birder: One Woman’s Big Year North American Birding Dominica’s Birds Avian Review Hummingbirds and Butterflies Birding is Fun! Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding Birding is Fun! ABA Blog The Drinking Bird A DC […]
Posts Tagged ‘A Supremely Bad Idea’
There was a little book published recently called The Crossley ID Guide. You may have noticed. Given all of the reviews online, it would be hard not to (I’ve added many reviews in the comments on the Crossley review roundup). But that’s not the only book being reviewed. Here are some others. The Feather Quest: […]
I agonize over the star ratings in my reviews. I don’t even know if anyone out there cares what the rating is, but I do. If I’m going to rate something, I want that rating to reflect my opinion as accurately as possible. The good thing is that the more reviews I do, the better […]
Hopefully, you’ve gotten all of your Christmas shopping done by now. But just in case, here are some suggestions for any bird bibliophile in your life. Field Guides No birder will ever mind getting another field guide. I don’t think it’s even possible to have too many! Here are the latest for North America. National […]
Here are a few reviews I’ve stumbled across lately. A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All OnEarth (publication of the Natural Resources Defense Council The Wannabe Birder Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune Corvus: A Life with Birds 10,000 Birds Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America The […]
Here are some bird book reviews that I’ve come across recently. Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America The House and other Arctic musings Opposable Chums – a documentary on the World Series of Birding 10,000 Birds Picus Blog Who Killed the Great Auk? Great Auk – or Greatest Auk? A Supremely Bad Idea: […]
October 4, 2008
A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All
Reviews, Books, Miscellaneousby Luke Dempsey
A very funny, and often irreverent, look at what happens when birding takes hold of the author’s life.
I’ve gotten a little behind on this. Here are some bird book and product reviews from magazines and journals published in July and August, 2008. Bird Watcher’s Digest – Vol. 31 No. 1, Sept/October 2008 Flights Against the Sunset: Stories that Reunited a Mother and Son, by Kenn Kaufman A very positive review,which states that […]
