In honor of Superb Owl Sunday 2019, I can’t think of a more appropriate new book to bring to everyone’s attention than James Duncan’s lavishly illustrated “Owls of the World.”
In honor of Superb Owl Sunday 2019, I can’t think of a more appropriate new book to bring to everyone’s attention than James Duncan’s lavishly illustrated “Owls of the World.”
Mark is deeply engrossed in two forthcoming books at the moment – “Rebirding” by Ben Macdonald, and “Bird Therapy” by Joe Harkness – both of which he promises to comment upon at length at a time closer to their respective official dates of publication.
While I’ve been… let’s say “away,” Mark has been just as busy as ever.
Yaffle. The very first time I heard this widely used British colloquial name for the Green Woodpecker I was instantly taken by it. Thought to have been derived in the Eighteenth Century from the call made by the species, yaffle so well expresses the Zeitgeist of this ground-loving member of the woodpecker family that once learned it’s difficult to call it by its official common name.