Containing a total of eleven hundred species depicted using over six thousand illustrations, Miles McMullen’s recently published “Field Guide to the Birds of North America” from Pelagic Publishing packs as much information about its subject into a field-portable volume as I’ve yet seen in any field guide.
Here is a selection of particularly interesting natural history and science podcast episodes for the week ending 6 June 2025.
Hopes are particularly high for Amar Ayyash’s new “The Gull Guide: North America” to be a book able to provide interested birders, birdwatchers, and naturalists alike with a meaningful new reference tool to the North American occurring, gull-denominated members of the Laridae family.
Beginning in 2024, after some years of putting it on the metaphorical back burner, I made the decision to devote more time and effort to birdwatching. I was once an avid birder, meticulously listing every twitch of a feather that can into view, then, having become disillusioned by some of the things I experienced in […]