10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2022
When you spot a brand new bird identification guide, especially for your home region – in this case, Europe – reaching for it comes naturally. And a highly recommendable book it is, there is no doubt about it. Excellent book to have as a reference at home, or to keep in your car (which I am tempted to do), but not to carry around.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 27, 2022
Most of such bird tours are branded “Borneo”, without ever mentioning the name of the country in the name of the tour. The format is 23 x 16 cm (9 x 6 in) and on my bird guide bookshelf it stands among the larger books, together with Robson’s “Birds of South-East Asia”. And yet, it easily fits the largest pocket of my reporter’s vest.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
Steve, another member of our birding group, also had a field guide by Kenefick, Restall, and Hayes, but his was bordered in GREEN, had a slightly different title, and, to my extreme chagrin, was much more recent, showing the recently split Trinidad Motmot instead of the Blue-crowned Motmot on my book’s cover. I was confused.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
The Pough & Eckelberry guides (add in artist Earl L Poole who did black-and-white drawings for the later titles) were notable for Pough’s discursive text and Eckelberry’s lovely painted portraits, and many older birders have stories about how they were inspired by these books. This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2020
That was the fourth edition, dated 1980, and I didn’t realize at the time that we were getting the books for free because the fifth edition had just been published. (I And, the One-page Index, a quick reference to locating major bird families, is placed in two locations–the front and the back of the book.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2013
The book is produced by WILDGuides, a nonprofit publishing organization that joined forces with Princeton University Press last year to create the Princeton WILDGuides imprint. Sturdy plastic over the paperback covers and a ruler on the inside back cover clearly say that these books are designed to be used outdoors.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 5, 2017
So, yes, Thayer’s Gull is in the book, but the reader is cautioned that the gull with be lumped with Iceland Gull “in the near future.” You may also be thinking about a third question: What bird books should I give myself for the holidays? Accessibility, or How Do I Find the Birds in the Book?
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