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The New Birder’s Guide to Birds of North America / The Young Birder’s Guide...
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Date: May, 2014 Illustrations: photographs, black-and-white drawings Binding: paperback Pages: 368 Size: 4.5″ x 7.5″ MSRP: $16.95 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin...
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Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo: Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and...
Publisher: Princeton University Press Date: March, 2014 Illustrations: paintings Binding: paperback Pages: 372 Size: 8 3/4″ x 11″ MSRP: $35.00 Cool, an envelope from Princeton University Press in...
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HBW Alive
HBW Alive is a comprehensive, online reference resource for the birds of the world. The starting point of HBW Alive is the acclaimed 17-Volume Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW), with its 13,367...
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Facing Extinction: The World’s Rarest Birds and the Race to Save Them (Second...
Publisher: Christopher Helm Date: December, 2013 Illustrations: photographs Binding: paperback Pages: 320 Size: 7.3″ x 10″ MSRP: $42.95 A charge often leveled at birders is that many of us do not care...
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Guide to Troubled Birds
Publisher: Blue Rider Press Date: June, 2014 Illustrations: paintings Binding: hardcover Pages: 64 Size: 6.25″ x 7.75″ MSRP: $15.95 You’re walking along a path in your local patch. A rustling in a...
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The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal...
Publisher: Riverhead Books Date: March, 2014 Illustrations: a few black-and-white drawings Binding: hardcover with dustjacket Pages: 302 Size: 5.75″ x 8.5″ MSRP: $27.95 Birds are amazing. I think most...
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52 Small Birds
Publisher: Luminare Press Date: February, 2014 Illustrations: photographs and paintings Binding: paperback Pages: 138 Size: 7″ x 10″ MSRP: $26.95 What is it about warblers that they inspire an almost...
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The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Date: January, 2011 Illustrations: a few black-and-white drawings Binding: hardcover, paperback Pages: 416 Size: 6.5″ x 9.25″ MSRP: $18.00 (paperback) I wasn’t planning...
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About Parrots: A Guide for Children
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers Date: August, 2014 Illustrations: paintings Binding: hardcover with dustjacket Pages: 48 Size: 10.25″ x 8.75″ MSRP: $16.95 Parrots are the perfect group of birds to...
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Hummingbirds
Publisher: Firefly Books Date: September, 2014 Illustrations: photographs Binding: hardcover with dustjacket Pages: 256 Size: 11.25″ x 8.75″ MSRP: $35.00 To get an idea of how extraordinary...
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The Passenger Pigeon
Publisher: Princeton University Press Date: September, 2014 Illustrations: paintings and photographs Binding: hardcover with dustjacket Pages: 177 Size: 7.5″ x 9.75″ MSRP: $29.95 If you weren’t aware...
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When Eagles Roar: The Amazing Journey of an African Wildlife Adventurer
Publisher: Ukhozi Press Date: September, 2014 Illustrations: a few black-and-white drawings Binding: paperback Pages: 312 Size: 6″ x 9″ List Price: $15.95 James Currie burst upon the birding scene in...
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Field Guide to the Birds of Colombia: Second Edition
Publisher: Conservation Allies LLC Date: August, 2014 Illustrations: paintings Binding: paperback Pages: 396 Size: 5″ x 8.25″ List Price: $34.95 In 2010, I reviewed the first edition of this essential...
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Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin
Publisher: Princeton University Press Date: February, 2014 Illustrations: photographs Binding: hardcover with dustjacket Pages: 544 Size: 8.25″ x 10.25″ List Price: $45.00 Ten Thousand Birds:...
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Birds of New Guinea (Second Edition)
Publisher: Princeton University Press Date: October, 2014 Illustrations: paintings Binding: paperback Pages: 528 Size: 6″ x 9″ List Price: $49.50 New Guinea is not only the world’s second largest...
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A Message from Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its...
Publisher: Bloomsbury Date: August, 2014 Illustrations: none Binding: hardcover with dustjacket Pages: 304 Size: 5.5″ x 8.75″ List Price: $22.00 The Martha of Mark Avery’s title was a bird, perhaps...
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The Sibley Guide to Birds (Second Edition)
Publisher: Knopf Date: March, 2014 Illustrations: paintings Binding: flexibound Pages: 216 Size: 6.25″ x 9.75″ List Price: $40.00 Note: This review is of the second printing. (The significance of that...
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The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
Publisher: HarperCollins Date: August, 2009 Illustrations: a few black-and-white photographs Binding: paperback Pages: 960 Size: 6″ x 9″ List Price: $19.99 I’ve long admired Theodore Roosevelt. He...
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The Stokes Essential Pocket Guide to the Birds of North America
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Date: October, 2014 Illustrations: photographs Binding: flexicover Pages: 288 Size: 4.5″ x 7.5″ List Price: $15.00 In 2010, the husband-and-wife duo of Donald and...
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Audubon’s Aviary: The Original Watercolors for The Birds of America
Publisher: Skira Rizzoli Date: October, 2012 Illustrations: paintings Binding: hardcover with dustjacket Pages: 448 Size: 11″ x 13.25″ List Price: $85.00 I love John James Audubon’s birds. As a child,...
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