Holiday gift ideas for natural history enthusiasts.
If a single thing can be said to be the defining element of modern birds, it would have to be feathers. And if a single author can be said to have written the definitive popular book on the subject, it would have to be Thor Hanson.
By John Riutta Category: Holiday 2011 Tags: 2011, bird, Birding, book, feathers, gift, hanson, holiday, nature
From amateur bird watchers to professional ornithologists, rock hounds to geologists, just about anyone who steps out-of-doors in pursuit of their respective nature-related activity can benefit from having a good binocular.
By John Riutta Category: Holiday 2011 Tags: 2011, binocular, bird, child, gift, holiday, kowa, nature, porro
If you were to make a short list of nature’s most popularly contemplated marvels, the manner in which birds build their respective nests would certainly need to be on it.
By John Riutta Category: Holiday 2011 Tags: architecture, avian, bird, goodfellow, nest, Princeton
With close to a thousand described bird species, hundreds of new illustrations, including those of a number of important subspecies, and new distribution as well as migration maps, the recently published sixth edition of the National Geographic Books Field Guide to the Birds of North America by Jon L. Dunn and Jonathan Alderfer would certainly be a [...]
By John Riutta Category: Holiday 2011 Tags: 2011, alderfer, Birds, book, christmas, dunn, field, geographic, gift, guide, holiday, national