All the time I spent reading and subsequently writing the review of David Berger’s “Razor Clams” got me reminiscing about my time growing up in a commercial fishing family on the Oregon coast. The time I spent out on the water, learning the craft from my father, who learned it from his father. The feeling of a Chinook or Silver Salmon in my hands. The knowledge that what we were doing was going to enable people to have wild-caught fish to eat.
Come this November, a new field guide will be added to the illustrious Peterson Field Guides series: the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America. Written by by Jesse Fagan and Oliver Komar, this new guide will provide species accounts for more than eight hundred birds that are found in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.