In 2020, Jennifer L. Bristol took her readers on a guided tour of how best to watch birds in parking lots around the U.S. state of Texas. Now she’s back with a second field guide that will lead them into an even more overlooked category of location for where productive bird watching may be practiced: cemeteries.
If you’re a regular reader of The Well-read Naturalist (and if so thank you very much for doing so) you’ve by now discovered that it’s as much about being well-read as it is about natural history. So when a new book is published that brings together the two of these, I most enthusiastically sit up and take notice. Such is the case with the recently published “Animals in the American Classics; How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction.”