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.
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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.
Common Mosses of the Northeast and Appalachians
Despite their beauty, variation, and ubiquity, mosses are not something with which even some of the most experienced naturalists among us are necessarily familiar; however this new Princeton Field Guide may be just to making the study of them much more popular.
A Darwin Day Recommendation
I thought I’d take a short break from writing a review of one of the most problematic books I’ve yet read about Charles Darwin to make a recommendation of one of the best collections I know of some of the most important and frequently referenced books he himself wrote.