Houghton Mifflin

There are people who are famous, and people who deserve to be famous; Kenn Kaufman fits into both categories, and like most birders in North America, I look forward to reading everything from his pen, from serious identification articles to light-hearted anecdote. Admirably and enviably, he succeeds as a writer at both extremes; who but […]

Bill Thompson III is well known in North American birding circles, both as the Editor of Bird Watcher’s Digest and as a fine field companion. He is also admirably dedicated, as is his wife, the artist and author Julie Zickefoose, to educating all Americans about their natural heritage. This newest volume in Houghton Mifflin’s […]

 
Quick! Name the most influential figure in North American birding today. Score ten points if your nominee is among the half-a-hundred contributors to this book (eleven if you pointed to me: aw shucks). And score a perfect 100 if you recognized the correct answer in that last name on the little volume’s cover, Lisa White, […]

Long awaited, and here at last: Steve Howell and Jon Dunn’s new Gulls appeared on my doorstep this afternoon. I had a chance to leaf through it at the ABA Convention in Lafayette last month, and will ‘post’ a review as soon as I’ve had a chance to look at the book in critical detail.

Lang Elliott is among the best and best-known recordists of birdsong in North America. His new book, The Songs of Wild Birds, is a combination of words, images, and often spectacular sounds that will delight and intrigue birders and non-birders alike.

Elliott’s selection of 50 species reveals a distinct eastern bias (could a western volume be in […]