Reviews

As a birder, this 72 minute documentary film about the Duck Stamp Contest didn’t accomplish what I was hoping it…

Years ago, when I reviewed Brian Kimberling’s Snapper, I reflected a bit on the pros and cons of writing in…

I’m not always a Big Year groupie, and it took me a while to start following Neil Hayward’s Accidental Big…

When it comes to binoculars, I’ve long been devoted to my trusty Nikon Monarch 8x42s. They feel great, they function…

If you take only one thing away from this review, let it be this: Do not be intimidated by this…

I purchased my first Sibley—The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America—in 2003. It was my second field…

Perfect is a big word, and using it right in the title of your book invites close scrutiny. Tim Birkhead,…

Waterfowl of North America, Europe, and Asia: An Identification Guide by Sébastien Reeber is an exhaustively comprehensive reference book that…

As a child of the eighties, I experienced a number of elegies for Whooping Cranes. Commentators seemed to take their…

Once upon a time, back in the heady, innocent days of 2014, I reviewed a book called The Mincing Mockingbird…