Mark Gets Local in Lincolnshire
For his Sunday Book review this week, Mark has chosen the new fully updated edition of the Lincolnshire Bird Club's "Birds of Lincolnshire." (I'm trying to imagine what it would be like if the county...
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If I'm honest - and I always try my best to be - prior to the arrival of a copy of "Celebrating Birds; an Interactive Field Guide Featuring Art from Wingspan," I was wholly unaware that there existed a...
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National Audubon Society Birds of North America
Surpassing 900 pages as it does in order to contain the "more than 800 species" of birds presented in its species profiles, "Birds of North America" is a much weightier tome than its series sibling,...
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Birds of Japan
While it's admittedly not exactly a "new" book - being published in 2018 - I have for too long neglected to enter any notice here of Mark Brazil's very important and, in terms of books presently in...
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Mark Posts a Triple
Our dear Dr. Avery has been a very busy chap indeed this past week. Apparently, he's been reading from sun-up to sun-down each day, and as a result has posted reviews of three newly published books for...
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Wandering Toward Mark’s New Book Review
With new book on an ornithological subject now announced for publication very soon in the UK, and its US publication scheduled for early next year, I would have wagered a moderate sum of money that I'd...
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The Wake of Crows
I recently climbed up Mt. To-be-read in search of books that I haven't yet read of which crows and their allies are the subjects. And one that quickly caught my attention was Prof. Thom van Dooren's...
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For The Birds
When I first took up bird watching many years ago, one of the first books I bought to learn more about it was a copy of Margaret Morse Nice's 1939 classic "The Watcher at the Nest" (I'm nothing if not...
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Finding the Universal in the Particular
There are two basic patterns of thought when it comes to field guides of bird species. The first is to obtain one that covers a large number of species, including any possible rarities, so that any...
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The Market in Birds
Not so long ago, commercial harvesting of birds and mammals was more akin to that of commercial seafood harvesting. More species were allowed to be hunted and sold into the marketplace, either for food...
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