Not only is Princeton University Press about to release Mark Witton’s new book Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy later this month, they’re providing a free online sneak peek into the first chapter.
Warbler enthusiasts throughout the United States and Canada should be delighted to learn about the publication of Tom Stephenson’s and Scott Whittle’s massive new book from Princeton University Press simply titled The Warbler Guide.
My review of Katrina van Grouw’s The Unfeathered Bird (Princeton University Press) appears in the May / June 2013 edition of Bird Watcher’s Digest.
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.