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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

49-50) She is also adept at writing about conservation’s larger context in terms of its history, public policy struggles, and the science behind species re-introduction. Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. Their sightings were published in Birdlore , the Auk , the Kingbird , and the Linnaean Newsletter. This is a project that clearly spanned decades. Another big year memoir?