My review of Katrina van Grouw’s The Unfeathered Bird (Princeton University Press) appears in the May / June 2013 edition of Bird Watcher’s Digest.
My Review of “The Unfeathered Bird”
John E. Riutta
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Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
Deerland
In his new book Deerland: America’s Hunt for Ecological Balance and the Essence of Wildness (Globe Pequot Press) noted outdoor writer Al Cambronne takes his readers on an eye-opening tour though the modern “deer industrial complex.”
Raptors Considered Collectively
Sometimes called “terms of venery” when pertaining to animals, the mundane use of such collective nouns for referring to game animals was expanded into a game in which participants were given most any noun and challenged to create a clever collective name for such.
Crossley ID Guide to Raptors Online Book Tour
For the next fortnight, Princeton University Press is holding an online book tour for Richard Crossley’s forthcoming The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors. Each day the tour will move to a new brace of websites or blogs.