When I first read that an eight-year-old had written a published book about dinosaurs, my first reaction was “how cute.” However when I was finally able to examine a copy of the book, I blushed with shame at my initial condescension.
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.
As an increasingly regular – but not nearly so frequent as I would like – visitor to the British Isles, I find myself in the unusual position of having attained a familiarity with its avifauna that is marginally comfortable but all-to-easily diminished between visits. Thus whenever my feet find themselves once again on British soil […]
It doesn’t take long when first flipping through the new “Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Mammals of Borneo and Their Ecology: Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan” to realize that this isn’t just a field guide to identifying the mammals to be found on Asia’a largest island, it’s also something of a short course on the island’s ecology as well.