Fact: Peru has 1,817 known species of birds. Fact: you can’t identify all of them on sight. Fact: neither can I.
Princeton
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 […]
The Soiled Underwear Bird?
For those who might not yet have discovered it, Princeton University Press is publishing quite a respectable blog to bring news of their new and forthcoming titles to the attention of the reading public. As Princeton has long been a cornerstone publisher for works of natural history, particularly ornithology, it is indeed encouraging to see […]