Book Reviews

Having only had one pet bird before (a parakeet), our familiarity with living with birds is minimal. We obsess over birds, but outside of a little bird banding, our intimacy with avian creatures is through optics.
Esther Woolfson, on the other hand, has first hand experience living with once wild birds and in Corvus: A [...]

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Hummingbirds of North America provides over two hundred pages of fascinating information on the 16 species of hummingbirds found in North America.
The book includes the life history of all species including nesting, predation and coloration. Detailed coverage of hummingbird migration can be found for each species. There is a full color photographic guide as [...]

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The Rare Birds Yearbook 2009 is out and it is terrible. Terrible in the fact that such a book needs to exist. Terrible that the world’s 190 most threatened birds face potential extinction. Thankfully, that is where the terribleness ends and some hope arrives.
Much like the 2008 version, Rare Birds Yearbook 2009 covers a lot [...]

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Birds In Flight: The Art and Science of How Birds Fly was written by naturalist and wildlife biologist Carrol Henderson. Mr. Henderson lives in Minnesota but has led birding trips across the globe. He is an amazing photographer and some of his work is showcased in this book, along with other illustrators and photographers.
Birds [...]

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Charles Darwin has always intrigued us, especially his work on the Galapagos Islands and the finches that would become known as Darwin’s Finches. In the wonderful book, How and Why Species Multiply, Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant provide a thorough account of their 34-year study of fourteen species of Darwin Finches and how [...]

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