Birdbooker Report 11 : Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

ScienceBlogs Book Club: Inside the Outbreaks

GrrlScientist Tweets:

GrrlScientist's New Blog:

Search This Blog

Valuable Information

Concisus Vitae

GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist and ornithologist who loves to write about "E3": evolution, ethology and ecology and the subtle relationships between these fields, especially in birds.

GrrlScientist's new blog can be accessed through any one of these five domain names: GrrlScientist.net, grrlscientist.org, grrlscientist.info, grrlscientist.com, or grrlscientist.us (keep in mind that, in the future, these domains may point to different places). GrrlScientist's current blog home is at her NATURE Network blog, Maniraptora.

Online interviews with GrrlScientist: Kolibri Expeditions, ScienceOnline09, Nature Blog Network and ScienceBlogs. More biographical information about GrrlScientist.

Follow GrrlScientist:

GrrlScientist's banner was designed by graphic artist, Jeff Hebert, whose other work can be viewed at his site, Hero Machine.

$upport This Scholar

Worthy Causes to $upport

Meters and Counters

Deep archives

More than 330 articles on topics ranging from avian influenza to evolution of birds

Rotating Drinking Pals

Rotating Reciprocal Links

Reading/Reviewing

Blog Essay Publications

Book Contributions

Bookmarking/Networking

My Little Radio Station (Music)

News and Talk

Miscellaneous

« Survival Skills | Main | Spring (2 of 2) »

Birdbooker Report 11

Topic Categories: The Birdbooker Report
Posted on: April 27, 2008 11:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"

tags: Birdbooker Report, bird books, natural history books

"One cannot have too many good bird books"
--Ralph Hoffmann, Birds of the Pacific States (1927).

Here's this week's issue of the Birdbooker Report by Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen, which lists bird and natural history books that are (or will soon be) available for purchase.

FEATURED TITLE:

Chiappe, Luis M. Glorified Dinosaurs: The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds. 2007. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hardbound: 263 pages. Price: $74.50 U.S. [Amazon: $60.40]. SUMMARY: An up-to-date review of Mesozoic bird evolution.

New and Recent Titles:

Armstrong, Robert H. Guide to the Birds of Alaska, 5th edition. 2008. Alaska Northwest Books. Paperback: 360 pages. Price: $26.95 U.S. [Amazon: $17.79]. SUMMARY: A photographic guide to the birds of Alaska.

Barthlott, Wilhelm, Stefan Porembski, Rudiger Seine, and Inge Theisen. The Curious World of Carnivorous Plants: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Biology and Cultivation. 2007. Timber Press. Hardcover: 224 pages. Price: $39.95 U.S. [Amazon: $26.37]. SUMMARY: A well illustrated introduction to carnivorous plants.

Brinkley, Edward S. National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Birds of North America. 2007. Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. Paperback: 529 pages. Price: $19.95 U.S. [Amazon: $13.57]. SUMMARY: A nice photographic guide to North American birds.

Chantler, Phil. Swifts: A Guide to the Swifts and Treeswifts of the World, 2nd edition. 2000. Yale University Press. Hardbound: 272 pages. Price: $55.00 U.S. [Amazon: $55.00]. SUMMARY: Another title in the Yale/Princeton/Helm series of bird families monographs.

Rosenthal, Elizabeth J. Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson. 2008. The Lyons Press. Hardbound: 437 pages. Price: $29.95 U.S. [Amazon: $19.77]. SUMMARY: A detailed biography of Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996).

Snyder, Noel F.R. An Alternative Hypothesis for the Cause of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker's Decline. 2007. Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. Paperback: 58 pages. Price: $25.00 U.S. SUMMARY: Presents an interesting hypothesis for the extinction of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.