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Tag: "field"
Aug 25, 2010 | 0 comments
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Recommended Books for Birders Visiting Panama
Regardless of where your travels might take you in this world (and if Sir Richard Branson is successful in his venture, any other) it’s always a good idea to read-up on your destination before you go. For travelling naturalists and wildlife photographers, such preliminary study is not just a good idea, it’s of paramount importance. [...]
Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson
If only the eleventh chapter of Elizabeth J. Rosenthal’s Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson was the entirety of the book, it would still be well worth the cover price…
Feb 15, 2010 | 0 comments
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National Geographic Ultimate Field Guide to Travel Photography
The decision to review the recently published National Geographic Ultimate Field Guide to Travel Photography (National Geographic Photography Field Guides) in The Well-read Naturalist was not one made lightly. After all, WRN is explicitly dedicated to books pertaining directly to the study of natural history in all its myriad forms. Would a book providing advice [...]
Feb 01, 2010 | 2 comments
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Mammals of North America (Second Edition)
When it comes to field guides, Princeton University Press has long held a position of honor and respect among both professional and amateur naturalists for consistently providing exceptional levels of accuracy and attention to detail. With its new and updated illustrations, revised identification information, and the addition of twenty recently recognized species to its contents, [...]
Jan 11, 2010 | 0 comments
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Holiday Gift Book Suggestions
Let’s face it – natural history enthusiasts can sometimes be a tough lot for whom to buy gifts; especially if you don’t personally share, or even know much about, their particular interests. Alternatively, even if you do share a common interest with the gift-worthy person or people in your life, you might be at a [...]
Roger Tory Peterson: A Biography
Douglas Carlson’s biography is sufficiently expansive in scope to encompass the many facets of Peterson without being unwieldy in length or needlessly excessive in detail.
Oct 05, 2009 | 0 comments
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Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest
In his introduction to Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest, William Neill eloquently explains that this new work is not so much a second edition of his earlier Guide to Butterflies of Oregon and Washington as it is a metamorphosis of that previous work into something entirely new just as a butterfly itself is to its [...]
