For most of the places I visit, a single field guide is sufficient to cover the area at hand; however when I travel in China, with its 1,431 species of birds to be found within its borders, no single field guide has previously been sufficient to cover the expansive area across which I must travel on my duly appointed factory-visiting rounds. Fortunately, this past January that changed…
This coming May will bring the publication of two very welcome new additions to the Princeton Field Guides series that will have entomologists and general naturalists alike swarming to their local book shops. The first of these is “Insects of North America” by Dr. John C. Abbott and Kendra K. Abbott.
Back in December of 2021, I published a review of Prof. Matt Ritter’s 2016 book “A Californian’s Guide to the Trees Among Us,” a work that admittedly had been in print for some time but having just then recently been brought to my attention I found so impressive and useful that I wanted to make certain my readers were aware of it. Little did I know at the time that Dr. Ritter’s book was scheduled for a new edition.
Published by the Pasadena Audubon Society, the new second edition of the “Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area” provides a spiral bound, single volume presentation of thirty noteworthy sites in or easily reachable from Pasadena.