While the U.K. might have just voted itself out of the European Union, four new U.S. states have just joined the association; the American Birding Association that is, as part of their field guide series from Scott & Nix.
While the U.K. might have just voted itself out of the European Union, four new U.S. states have just joined the association; the American Birding Association that is, as part of their field guide series from Scott & Nix.
If you live along the Florida coast, plan to be spending some time along the Florida coast, or simply have an interest in marine species of fish – particularly those inhabiting the waters off the Florida coast – then David B. Snyder, George H. Burgess, and Johns Hopkins University Press have a new book that may greatly interest you: “Marine Fishes of Florida.”
Despite their vast, open stretches of sand where, other than some waving swaths of unusually hardy grasses, living things seem sparsely represented at best, the dunes of the Pacific Northwest are actually teeming with a wide ranging variety of life – if you know where to look.
Think about the last time you saw a field bedecked with wildflowers. Wasn’t it a sublimely beautiful sight? I know that each time I see one, whenever possible I stop and simply soak in the delightfully random arrangements of color. And yet how many of us – unless of course we’re skilled botanists – can easily identify the various plants that make such sights possible?