10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2022
This all came back to me as I read Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure because author Susan Fox Rogers was one of the two birders to find the Ames Henslow’s Sparrow. It’s the subject of the eleventh essay in this collection, almost smack in the middle of the 22 pieces that comprise the book.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
This, 2022, has been a curious year for books about birds and birding. Despite the absence of two major publishers—Lynx and HMH–from the new title publishing scene (hopefully not permanently), we were happily surprised to read and peruse many excellent books. But this is more than a coffee table book. Highly recommended.
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4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. It’s not surprising that animals—especially, but not only, mammals—share many emotions with us because we also share brain structures—located in the limbic system—that are the seat of our emotions.
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2016
If you take only one thing away from this review, let it be this: Do not be intimidated by this book! Even with all this to draw on, the book still could have been a slog with its minute daily accounts of islands visited, blackflies endured, and Fox Sparrows shot were it not for Logan’s native talents.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2020
The NYC owls have little to do with the book in front of me except that it too is about birds and people. The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. Yes, there are scores of photos on Twitter accompanied by the expected exclamation points and emojis.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
The opening beautifully encapsulates the essence of the book. The author, conservation biologist Caroline Fox, is observing the albatross’s shadow to the side of the boat. Fox notes the albatross in her “soaking-wet notebook” and watches it circle and fly back into the masking glare. Do I need to say anything more?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 16, 2015
Our fearless leader was author, naturalist, and master bander Scott Weidensaul , whose book about migration – Living on the Wind – was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. What’s it called when birds return to the same nesting spot?” he asked the group, as we settled in a small clearing and set up the nets.
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