Newly Noted: Birds of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire (Princeton Field Guides) {Comments Off}
Traveling to the Leeward Lesser Antilles? Just like to relax in a chair at home and dream of the amazing birds to be seen in the Southern Caribbean?
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Forthcoming Title: How to Be a Better Birder {Comments Off}
Taking up birding isn’t particularly difficult. However once one has begun practicing it, how does one best go about improving one’s skills in it? Derek Lovitch has worked out a system for doing precisely that.
Forthcoming Title: Life Everlasting {Comments Off}
What happens when an animal dies? How does the substance of which it is made become reincorporated back into the ecosystem in which it lived? Professor Bernd Heinrich knows – and he intends to explain it in his forthcoming book “Life Everlasting.”
Newly Noted: Birds of Melanesia (Princeton Field Guides) {Comments Off}
Following right on the heels of their Birds of India, Princeton University Press has now released Birds of Melanesia as the latest addition to the rapidly expanding Princeton Field Guides series.
New Bird Watcher’s Digest Contains Two Original Well-read Naturalist Reviews {Comments Off}
The March / April 2012 issue of Bird Watcher’s Digestcontains two original Well-read Naturalist produced reviews.
Princeton University Press Creates New Natural History Imprint {Comments Off}
Princeton University Press has acquired not only rights to the WILDGuides backlist but has formed a new imprint – Princeton WILDGuides – for the publication of future titles as well.
Forthcoming Title: Falcon {Comments Off}
We don’t see all that many books for children here at The Well-read Naturalist. More’s the pity; some of the best bird and general nature-themed books ever published have been written for children. Which is why we were both very surprised as well as pleased to discover an advanced copy of acclaimed illustrator Tim Jessell’s forthcoming book Falcon in the daily post.
Forthcoming Title: The Great Animal Orchestra {Comments Off}
Birds sing, bees buzz, frogs croak; everything in nature produces some form of noise – even the planet itself. Not surprisingly, humans, great imitators that we are, have incorporated many of these sounds into our own collection of noises; particularly in the music we have made throughout our history.