As you may have heard, the new second edition of The Sibley Guide was published recently. Want a free copy? It’s easy, you just have to guess how many birds I saw on a recent trip to Peru. Enter your guess as a comment on this post, and the closest guess wins. If you’d like […]
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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 […]
Wow, lots of shiny reviews this month. The Sibley Guide to Birds of North America, Second edition Rare Bird Alert Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin Another Bird Blog New Scientist Avian 101 Nemesis Bird Rare Birds of North America The Birdist Birding Dude Rich Ditch’s Photography Blog Avian Review (site’s homepage) View from the […]
2013 was a great year for bird books, but based on the titles already announced 2014 may end up being even better! Here are some to be looking forward to. Rare Birds of North America by Steve N. G. Howell, Ian Lewington, and Will Russell February 16, 2014; Princeton University Press This is the first […]
Here are the bird book reviews from elsewhere last month. But first, here’s a great list of the best bird books of 2013. The Sibley Guide to Birds: Second Edition Nature Travel Network The Crossley ID Guide: Britain and Ireland It’s a Bird Thing… About.com Birding / Wild Birds Birds and People 10,000 Birds American […]
BirdWatching magazine has posted an interview with David Sibley, which includes a first look at the second edition of the Sibley Guide. Some highlights: The trim size will be the same, but it will have 80 more pages than the last one. More species! 98 “non-exotic rare species” and 13 exotic species have been added. […]
