The month started slow, but then picked up nicely. The Warbler Guide Cornell’s All About Birds Blog American Birding Association Audubon Magazine blog Their Fate Is Our Fate: How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World Slate Peterson Reference Guide to Seawatching: Eastern Waterbirds in Flight 10,000 Birds National Parks Traveler The World’s […]
Posts Tagged ‘The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America’
More shiny bird book reviews. Birds of North America and Greenland (Princeton Illustrated Checklists) ABA Blog The Nemesis Bird A DC Birding Blog Birding is Fun! The Birder’s Report National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Sixth Edition The Birdbooker Report Joseph Morlan Avian Architecture: How Birds Design, Engineer, and Build Rosyfinch […]
There was a little book published recently called The Crossley ID Guide. You may have noticed. Given all of the reviews online, it would be hard not to (I’ve added many reviews in the comments on the Crossley review roundup). But that’s not the only book being reviewed. Here are some others. The Feather Quest: […]
Here are some bird book reviews from January. Shiny. Wild America Great Auk – or Greatest Auk? Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings Magnificent Frigatebird Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big […]
by Donald and Lillian Stokes
An exceptional photographic reference to North American birds.
2010 was a good year for bird field guides. The highlights include new editions of the most famous field guide in history, a great new field guide for North America, a real field guide to the world’s most avian-rich country, and what was arguably the most highly anticipated field guide update ever (at least since […]
The last batch of reviews from around the net for 2010. The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America Ohio Birds and Biodiversity Nature Remains A DC Birding Blog Stokes Birding Blog – OK, this is not a review. But if you’d like to take a look inside this book, who better to […]
I just got back from an extended trip (trip reports coming on Birds on the Brain), so I haven’t been able to do much for the site lately. But more reviews are on the way. In the meantime, here are some reviews I found last month. Parrots of the World The Flying Mullet The Drinking […]
Thanks to Little, Brown and Company and Free Press, respectively, I have copies of The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America and The Great Penguin Rescue to give away. How to win: Simply “Like” the Birder’s Library page on Facebook. Make sure you do so by Sunday, December 5. On Sunday evening […]
Where did October go? And most of November, for that matter. Here, a little belatedly, are the bird book reviews that I saw last month. Nightjars of the World BrdPics Towheeblog The Eyrie Bird Songs Bible: The Complete, Illustrated Reference for North American Birds The Birdbooker Report Global Birding: Traveling the World in Search of […]