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 ‘The Passenger Pigeon’
From Florida to Hawaii to New Guinea; hummingbirds to kestrels; checklists to novels – there’s something in January’s reviews for everyone. American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Florida and Colorado 10,000 Birds Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World, Volume 1 Non-passerines Wildlife Activist American Kestrel: Pint-sized Predator The Well-read Naturalist Birds […]
Here are the last of the bird book reviews from 2014. Looking forward to many more in 2015. The Sibley Guide to Birds, 2nd Edition (second printing) Nature Travel Network When Eagles Roar: The Amazing Journey of an African Wildlife Adventurer Nature Travel Network Ducks, Geese, and Swans of North America The Well-read Naturalist American […]
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) […]
The Passenger Pigeon by Errol Fuller From Princeton University Press: At the start of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons were perhaps the most abundant birds on the planet, numbering literally in the billions. The flocks were so large and so dense that they blackened the skies, even blotting out the sun for days at a […]
On 1 September 1914, between midday and 1 pm, in the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Cincinnati, Ohio, a pigeon breathed her last, and with her died her species. – Mark Avery, A Message from Martha And thus, the Passenger Pigeon became extinct 100 years ago. You’re probably already aware of this, as much has […]
