Birdwatching in New York City and on Long Island (Second Edition)

For those birdwatchers living in or visiting the Big Apple, Brandeis University Press has recently published an updated second edition of Birdwatching in New York City and on Long Island by Deborah Rivel and Kellye Rosenheim. Published by Brandeis University Press and distributed by University of Chicago Press, this new edition has been nearly a decade in the making and presents all those from first-time visitors to the area to experienced long-time locals with the directions to, maps, of, and explanations about the scores of locations in the five borough area and Long Island at which selections of the more than five hundred species of birds potentially to be seen throughout the year may be found.

As I’ve long been an advocate of obtaining the most localized species guides and site guides to any area in which one seeks to undertake naturalist activities, I am in awe of the scope and level of detail that the authors have included in this new edition. The site profiles make for very interesting reading all in themselves, and the included abundance charts for all the species recorded as at least occasional visitors provide much more location specific information than to which a common regional or even state-level species guide can aspire.

So if you’re a birdwatcher living in the New York City of Long Island area, or one who is planning a visit there (and bringing your binocular, of course), Birdwatching in New York City and on Long Island is a book that you should indeed consider adding to your reading list.