Regardless of where your travels might take you in this world (and if Sir Richard Branson is successful in his venture, any other) it’s always a good idea to read-up on your destination before you go.
Recommended Books for Birders Visiting Panama
Princeton
Peruvian Friday: The Essential Field Guide
Fact: Peru has 1,817 known species of birds. Fact: you can’t identify all of them on sight. Fact: neither can I.
Mammals of North America (Second Edition)
When it comes to field guides, Princeton University Press has long held a position of honor and respect among both professional and amateur naturalists for consistently providing exceptional levels of accuracy and attention to detail. With its new and updated illustrations, revised identification information, and the addition of twenty recently recognized species to its contents, […]
Birdscapes Trivia
As I had made reference in a previous post to my recent reading of a book that should easily make anyone’s short list of top natural history books for 2009, Jeremy Mynott’s Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience, I thought interested readers might like to know that an ongoing trivia contest pertaning to the […]