The latest addition to the Peterson Field Guides Backyard Bird Guides series, Bill Thompson III’s Bird Homes and Habitats, has now been released from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Thompson Completes His Trilogy
Newly Noted Books
New and forthcoming books that are worthy of attention but that have not yet been fully reviewed.
Before Audubon there was Wilson
While Audubon may be the name most commonly associated with early ornithology in the U.S., there were other naturalists who were hard at work before him documenting the birdlife to be found in the newly founded country, foremost among them was Alexander Wilson.
Wolves in the Land of Salmon
When it comes to large mammals in North America, none – not even the now nearly ubiquitous and to some very troublesome White-tailed Deer – can match the contentiousness that swirls around the Grey Wolf.
The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians
Most naturalists will recognize the person so honored in the names of species such as Sylvilagus audubonii (the Desert, or Audubon’s, Cottontail) or Setophaga townsendi (Townsend’s Warbler), but what about Edalorhina perezi (Pérez’s Snouted Frog)?