While the U.K. might have just voted itself out of the European Union, four new U.S. states have just joined the association; the American Birding Association that is, as part of their field guide series from Scott & Nix.
Four New State Bird Guides
Birding
Peterson Reference Guide to Woodpeckers of North America
Living in the Pacific Northwest, some of the first birds I learned to identify were woodpeckers. After all, in Oregon alone there are twelve different species to be found; over half the total number of species listed for all of North America. Indeed, the region is so strongly identified with woodpeckers that Paradise Birding calls one of its tours “Woodpecker Wonderland.”
Lost Among the Birds
Ordinarily, I tend to avoid birding memoirs with approximately the same effort as I avoid elective root canals. For while I am an avid bird watcher myself, I have never quite found it all that interesting to read about other people’s birding adventures – particularly when they’re trying to break some sort of record. So when an advance reading copy of Neil Hayward’s Lost Among the Birds; Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year recently arrived on my desk from Bloomsbury, as you might imagine, I was less than excited about it.
California Casual
When it comes to states, few are more difficult to approach from a natural history perspective than California. Its long, narrow shape combined with a Pacific Ocean-facing coastline running the entire length of one side join with a variety of eco-regions that range from desert to sub-alpine to create a level of diversity that’s seen […]