As this week seems to be shaping up to be one devoted to new field guides, it’s well worth noting that in May of this year, Johns Hopkins University Press will be publishing Leslie Day’s new Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City.
Even though it’s only February, I’m beginning to hear my local birds becoming far more vocal each morning; which tells me that it’s time to think about the spring migration. It’s also time to begin thinking about new field guides – the most recent example of which to arrive on my desk being the new The Stokes Essential Pocket Guide to the Birds of North America.
With the recent publication of the third edition of Carstensen, Armstrong, and O’Clair’s classic The Nature of Southeast Alaska; A Guide to Plants, Animals, and Habitats by Graphic Arts Books, readers of this freshly updated guide to the natural history of the area will not only have at their fingertips a wealth of new illustrations and maps […]
Rock hounds rejoice! Without question, 2014 is going to long be known among naturalist history enthusiasts as the year of geology books. Even as the Solstice approached, another new geology-related title arrived on my desk from Bloomsbury: Chris and Helen Pellant’s Rocks and Minerals; A Photographic Field Guide.