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.”
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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.
The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds
Long before there were digital cameras in every mobile phone – or for that matter long before there were digital cameras or mobile phones – many bird watchers considered a pencil suitable for drawing and a small sketch pad essential elements of their field kit.