Rebecca Minardi

3 days ago | aba.org | Rebecca Minardi

The Breeding Birds of Minnesota: History, Ecology, and Conservation, by Lee A. Pfannmuller, Gerald J. Niemi, and Janet C. GreenUniversity of Minnesota Press, 2024616 pages, hardcoverABA Sales–Buteo Books 15235 Minnesota’s first-ever breeding bird atlas was officially completed in 2013 after four years of painstaking work. Birders collected nearly 400,000 records to completely survey this massive state.

2 weeks ago | aba.org | Rebecca Minardi

Identifying Migratory Birds by Sound in Britain and Europe, by Stanislas WrozaBloomsbury Publishing, 2024256 pages, paperback It may be apocryphal, but birds and birding are purportedly popular for three reasons: their omnipresence in a world where nature is increasingly absent from the quotidian, their otherworldly dinosaurian plumage, and the envy and awe inspired by their flight.

3 weeks ago | aba.org | Rebecca Minardi

ID Handbook of European Birds, by Nils Van Duivendijk and Marc GuytPrinceton University Press, 20241048 pages, hardcoverABA Sales–Buteo Books 15362 The arrival of not one but two tomes from Princeton University Press, dedicated to the identification of European passerines and non-Passerines, was highly awaited. These weighty handbooks are the brainchild of Dutch identification-meister, Nils Van Duivendijk and AGAMI photo-agency principal, Marc Guyt.

4 weeks ago | aba.org | Rebecca Minardi

A review byRebecca HeismanThe Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica by Naira de GraciaScribner, 2024256 pages, paperbackABA Sales–Buteo Books 15415It will be spring when this book review is published, but no matter what time of year it is when you sit down to read Naira de Gracia’s The Last Cold Place, you’ll soon find yourself transported to a land of ice, snow, wind—and penguins.

2 months ago | aba.org | Rebecca Minardi

A review by Aisha WhiteDrawing Nature: The Creative Process of an Artist, Illustrator, and Naturalist, by Linda Miller FeltnerPrinceton University Press, 2024272 pages, hardcoverABA Sales–Buteo Books 15433It’s all in the details. Drawing Nature: The Creative Process of an Artist, Illustrator, and Naturalist, by Linda Miller Feltner, is an illustrated history of the author and artist’s career and creative work focused on all living things, large and small.