Sometimes called “terms of venery” when pertaining to animals, the mundane use of such collective nouns for referring to game animals was expanded into a game in which participants were given most any noun and challenged to create a clever collective name for such.
For the next fortnight, Princeton University Press is holding an online book tour for Richard Crossley’s forthcoming The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors. Each day the tour will move to a new brace of websites or blogs.
Despite their beauty, variation, and ubiquity, mosses are not something with which even some of the most experienced naturalists among us are necessarily familiar; however this new Princeton Field Guide may be just to making the study of them much more popular.
It likely goes without saying that if you’re planning a trip to the internationally famous Masai Mara wildlife reserve in Kenya that you’re going to be interested in seeing and being able to identify more than just the birds to be found there. Fortunately, simultaneous with the publication of Adam Scott Kennedy’s Birds of the […]