What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing-What Birds Are Doing, and Why by David Allen Sibley From Knopf: The bird book for birders and nonbirders alike that will excite and inspire by providing a new and deeper understanding of what common, mostly backyard, birds are doing–and why. “Can […]
App that will help you identify bird sounds.
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When the second edition of The Sibley Guide to Birds was published in 2014, everyone wanted to know when the Eastern and Western regional guides and the app would be likewise updated. Now, two years later, the new regional guides are set to be published. (We’re still waiting on the app…) These new regional guides […]
by David Allen Sibley
The best field guide to North American birds.
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The Sibley Guide to Birds: Second Edition by David Allen Sibley It’s different. Now, if you were to hand both the first and second editions of The Sibley Guide to a non-birder, they will probably not notice many differences. Likely just “cosmetic changes”. But to a birder who has spent years looking between the covers […]
by Pete Dunne, Clay Sutton, and David Sibley
The classic gets even better.
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…in 2013! Yep, David Sibley is working on a revision to his Sibley Guide to Birds. I can’t wait! In the meantime, you can check out a plate for the new guide at Sibley’s Facebook page (you don’t have to have a Facebook account to view it). This seems like a good time to remind […]
by David Allen Sibley
Sibley does for trees what he did for birds.
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I wish I could attend these two events, but alas, I will be at home, far away from either. But if you’re any closer, check them out! First, Rick Wright announced that there will be a panel discussion on field guides at the Tucson Festival of Books on Saturday, March 13. Wright will be joined […]
The Sibley Guide to Trees by David Allen Sibley September 15, 2009; $39.95 Nine years ago, The Sibley Guide to Birds was published and quickly became generally regarded as the best North American field guide. And now Sibley turns his tremendous talent to a very different group of organisms. The Birder’s World magazine blog has […]
