10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2021
His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 22, 2020
I was lucky to visit India several times, but as a keen birder I carried along only a bird book, and even upgraded it to a new edition between the trips. I clearly needed a mammal book. Despite depicting 540 species/56 families, it is a lightweight book of 173 pages, easy to pack and carry.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 7, 2021
This book is part of the Lynx Illustrated Checklists collection created from the wealth of data, illustrations and maps compiled for the Handbook of the Mammals of the World (HMW) series which has been distilled into handbooks that can be easily carried into the field.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2012
There’s been a bit of excitement around our house lately, because the UPS man rumbled up the driveway on Friday the 13th with a box containing two advance copies of my new book, The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds. A book five years in the making, 80,000 words and 320 illustrations, most of them full color.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2013
There have been three books written about Pale Male and 2 movies made about him, and saying that he was the bird that sparked my birding obsession makes me feel like I am living out an urban cliché. Not surprisingly, I found the most compelling essays were those by people who had had similar experiences to mine.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2013
It isn’t in your book of seabirds? (It But, to Elizabeth Gehrman, the author of Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man who Brought it Back from Extinction, and to David Wingate, the man who Gehrman profiles in this excellent book, the Bermuda Petrel is always the cahow. You’ve never heard of the cahow?
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2011
The temptation is even stronger for popularizers, who have to condense and choose a focus that will appeal to the book-buying public. Right away, we have a definition problem — those who hold to any kind of mind-body dualism are unlikely to be swayed by the ideas in this book.
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