Here are bird book reviews from around the web from February (because I forgot to do it then) and March. Birds of a Feather: Seasonal Changes on Both Sides of the Atlantic The Well-read Naturalist Sport Optics: Binoculars, Spotting Scopes and Riflescopes The Well-read Naturalist H Is for Hawk All About Birds Tales of Remarkable […]
Posts Tagged ‘How to be a Better Birder’
This edition of Review Roundup is much later than usual, as I’ve been spending much of my free time transcribing notes and entering data from my Peru trip. But now that I’m done, I can get on with other things…like actually reading and reviewing books 🙂 The Sibley Guide to Birds of North America, Second […]
Here are a few reviews from August. Save the Last Dance: A Story of North American Grassland Grouse ABA Blog How to be a Better Birder Magnificent Frigatebird Owls of the World: A Photographic Guide The Birdbooker Report The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds Two Birders and Binoculars Cuckoos of the World BirdGuides The Puffin […]
Not too many reviews last month. Not that I have room to talk, I need to get cranking on my reviews. Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird The Birdchaser City of Ravens: The Extraordinary History of London, the Tower and its Famous Ravens ABA Blog Life Along the Delaware Bay: Cape May, […]
Some great reviews last month. The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of North America Birdfreak Remarkable Woodpeckers: Incredible Images and Characteristics The Zen Birdfeeder The Reed Warblers: Diversity in a Uniform Bird Family The Birdbooker Report Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death The Birdbooker Report How to Be a Better Birder The Drinking Bird […]
I noticed relatively few reviews last month. I guess everyone was actually birding. Imagine that… America’s Other Audubon The Birdbooker Report Bird Talk: What Birds Are Saying and Why AZ Birdbrain A Field Guide to the Birds of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore The Birdbooker Report What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of […]
by Derek Lovitch
Excellent resource for intermediate and more advanced birders.
Online bird book reviews from April, 2012. The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds Oprah (yes, that Oprah!) Library Journal (scroll down a little) – and here’s a great interview examiner.com How to Be a Better Birder The Nature of Things A Charm of Finches 10,000 Birds Birdfreak Towheeblog Island Nature Birding is Fun! […]
Bird book reviews. Shiny. How to Be a Better Birder ABA Blog The Birdbooker Report The Digiscoper Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America: A Photographic Guide UK400 Club (British Birding Association) The Passionate Birder Birdfreak The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds Mountain West News 10,000 Birds Birds of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire […]
How to be a Better Birder by Derek Lovitch From the publisher (Princeton University Press): This unique illustrated handbook provides all the essential tools you need to become a better birder. Here Derek Lovitch offers a more effective way to go about identification–he calls it the “Whole Bird and More” approach–that will enable you to […]
