10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Baicich, Margaret A.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
A little bit of research when I got home unraveled the ways of publishers here and in Great Britain. The accounts aim for specificity and authority; dates and locations of rarity sightings are given, and research articles on nesting and behavior are cited. How could I, the librarian, end up with an outdated field guide?
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
Interestingly, Chestnut-collared Longspur does appear under its brand-new official name, Thick-billed Longspur, though the description underneath uses the old name. I am particularly happy to see that the bird communication section includes recent research on singing female birds. These are all informative and current.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
I don’t want some researcher a hundred years from now wondering if my single-observer White-winged Dove in Queens was real so I had to add a photo. Part of the prize was a brand new pair of Zeiss Conquests, which I was more than happy to try out this weekend. And once I saw my number of photos go up I had to add some more.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Introduction: The 8-page Introduction, down from fourteen pages in the 4th edition, succinctly and intelligently describes the contents of the field guide and the concepts and vocabulary behind it–AOU taxonomy, scientific names, subspecies, molt and plumage sequence, range and distribution maps. The wonder of research?
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