Given the overwhelming popularity and extraordinary usefulness of Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s All About Birds web page, it isn’t surprising at all that the content of it would eventually be employed for the creation of a printed field guide.
For as long as I can recall, my family’s celebration of the Christmas / Yule holidays has involved certain foods. Most of these are traditional old country creations, recipes that have been handed down from generation to generation. However one delicacy was added as the result of the north Oregon coast location in which my grandfather settled when arriving from Finland: crab. And not just any crab – Dungeness Crab (Metacarcinus magister / Cancer magister).
With new book on an ornithological subject now announced for publication very soon in the UK, and its US publication scheduled for early next year, I would have wagered a moderate sum of money that I’d soon see a review of it in our friend Dr. Avery’s blog for his Sunday Book Review. And it’s a wager I would have won, as this present Sunday saw the publication of just such a review.
A wide range of creatures engage in natural engineering projects, be they independent structures in which to live in or as part of their own bodies. And it is this vast range of structures that Kimberly Ridley presents in her forthcoming book “Wild Design; Nature’s Architects.”