Glad to see many bird book reviews last month. Peterson Reference Guide to Birding by Impression National Parks Traveler The House of Owls Wall Street Journal (review by Julie Zickefoose) Green Birding: How to See More Birds and Protect the Environment at the Same Time About Birding/Wild Birds Birds of Western Africa: Second Edition About […]
Posts Tagged ‘Penguins: The Ultimate Guide’
Before we get started, I want to say that this is by no means a definitive list. I’ve seen a lot of bird books in 2014, but not nearly all of them. Two in particular – Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World, Volume 1 and H is for Hawk – have been highly […]
A nice mixture of new and older books were reviewed this past month. Penguins: The Ultimate Guide Greg Laden’s Blog Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide Hipster Birders Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World, Volume 1: Non-passerines Woodpeckers of the World (This is the blog of the author of the previous book) […]
Penguins: The Ultimate Guide by Tui De Roy, Mark Jones, and Julie Cornthwaite From Princeton University Press: Penguins are perhaps the most beloved birds. On land, their behavior appears so humorous and expressive that we can be excused for attributing to them moods and foibles similar to our own. Few realize how complex and mysterious […]
