New WRN Reviews in BWD

August 1, 2013 By John E. Riutta in Marginalia Tags: bird, book, crossley, digest, monocular, niemann, review, watcher's

Two original Well-read Naturalist reviews – those of Richard Crossley’s The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors from Princeton University Press and Derek Niemann’s Birds in a Cage: Germany, 1941. Four POW Birdwatchers. The Unlikely Beginning of British Wildlife Conservation from Short Books – appear in the July / August 2013 edition of Bird Watcher’s Digest.

For those who might also be interested in the subject of optics, another of my articles, “Monoculars; the Pocket-sized Optic with a Backpack-full of Possibilities,” appears in this issue as well.

John E. Riutta

Founder and publisher of The Well-read Naturalist. Inveterate autodidact. Has repeatedly been found out standing in many fields. Plays well with otters.

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