bwd_jul_aug_2013_coverTwo original Well-read Naturalist reviews – those of Richard Crossley’s The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors from Princeton University Press and Derek Niemann’s Birds in a Cage: Germany, 1941. Four POW Birdwatchers. The Unlikely Beginning of British Wildlife Conservation from Short Books – appear in the July / August 2013 edition of Bird Watcher’s Digest.

For those who might also be interested in the subject of optics, another of my articles, “Monoculars; the Pocket-sized Optic with a Backpack-full of Possibilities,” appears in this issue as well.

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