About Donna
Having been attached to books all her life, Donna Lynn Schulman is thrilled to be engaged in a passion that requires fealty to an information artifact called a “field guide.” Donna divides her birding time between Queens, New York, where she grew up, and central New Jersey, where she is on the adjunct faculty of a very large public university. Donna was a Library Journal book reviewer for 15 years, reviewing over 100 titles, and has also reviewed labor relations books and contributed articles on labor relations research to specialized journals and monographs. She wrote her first birding book reviews for the Queens County Bird Club’s News & Notes, which she formerly edited, and has also reviewed for the American Birding Associations' Birding magazine. Donna was recently pleased to talk about the top birding books of 2017 with Nate Swick for the ABA December podcast. When she is not birding or working on her nature photography, Donna travels to Florida, where she attempts to turn her young nephews into birders (so far, they are fisherman who send her photos of birds), to Los Angeles to visit her writer daughter and son-in-law, or somewhere wonderfully new and birdy. She also contemplates someday writing an article for her blog, Queensgirl.
ABA Field Guide to Birds of New York Giveaway!
It’s here! It’s here! The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New York by Corey Finger, birder, blogger,…
Sibley Birds East & Sibley Birds West: A Review
I purchased my first Sibley—The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America—in 2003. It was my second field…
Waterfowl of North America, Europe & Asia: An Identification Guide
Waterfowl of North America, Europe, and Asia: An Identification Guide by Sébastien Reeber is an exhaustively comprehensive reference book that…
Birding India with the ABA
India was not on my list of places to go in 2016. But, when I heard that it was the…
Offshore Sea Life: East Coast, Birds of Pennsylvania, & Texas Birds: Three Books, Three Reviews
It’s time for some short book reviews. Well, short for me. All of these titles deal with birding in specific…
Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)
New Year’s resolutions from birding friends are starting to trickle in as I write this review. It is the last…
Donna’s 2016 Year List: Florida, India, and Then–Home
My first sight of Greater Scaup for 2016 was in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India, not in World’s Fair Marina,…
It’s the Holiday Season — Give Birding Books!
It’s December and that means one thing—a great excuse to buy books on birding. I thought I’d do a round-up…
Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review
Cuba is on my mind. It’s probably on your mind too, especially if you live in the United States. 26…
Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean: A Book Review by a Lover of Parliaments
Here are some things I’ve learned from the Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean by…