{"id":11813,"date":"2020-12-03T11:03:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T16:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=11813"},"modified":"2020-12-03T11:07:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T16:07:13","slug":"best-bird-books-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/03\/best-bird-books-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Bird Books, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the most invidious time of the year&#8230;.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For all its horrors, 2020 did see the appearance of lots of eagerly awaited bird books. I haven&#8217;t read them all&#8211;it&#8217;s just not possible any more, given the pace of publication nowadays&#8211;but here are some favorites among those I have got around to so far. (The cover images are linked to the catalogue pages at Buteo Books.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buteobooks.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=BBBAO&amp;Screen=PROD&amp;Product_Code=15064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buteobooks.com\/mm5\/graphics\/covers\/L\/15064_540x540.jpg\" alt=\"Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buteobooks.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=BBBAO&amp;Screen=PROD&amp;Product_Code=15091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buteobooks.com\/mm5\/graphics\/covers\/L\/15091_540x540.jpg\" alt=\"Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Seventh Edition\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buteobooks.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=BBBAO&amp;Screen=PROD&amp;Product_Code=ABAFGHI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buteobooks.com\/mm5\/graphics\/covers\/L\/ABAFGHI.jpg\" alt=\"American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Hawaii\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buteobooks.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=BBBAO&amp;Screen=PROD&amp;Product_Code=15069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buteobooks.com\/mm5\/graphics\/covers\/L\/15069_540x540.jpg\" alt=\"Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buteobooks.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=BBBAO&amp;Screen=PROD&amp;Product_Code=15069\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buteobooks.com\/mm5\/graphics\/covers\/L\/15039_540x540.jpg\" alt=\"Birds of Maine\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buteobooks.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=BBBAO&amp;Screen=PROD&amp;Product_Code=15102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buteobooks.com\/mm5\/graphics\/covers\/L\/15102.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the most invidious time of the year&#8230;.&#8221; For all its horrors, 2020 did see the appearance of lots of eagerly awaited bird books. I haven&#8217;t read them all&#8211;it&#8217;s just not possible any more, given the pace of publication nowadays&#8211;but here are some favorites among those I have got around to so far. (The cover &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/03\/best-bird-books-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Bird Books, 2020&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11813"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11818,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11813\/revisions\/11818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}