02-24: Best Bird Books of 2018 with Donna Schulman

The American Birding Podcast

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🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We're getting to the end of the year and it's time for a look back at the best bird books published in 2018. Once again, 10,000 Birds book reviewer Donna Schulman joins me to talk about our favorites. Donna and I each share our Top 5, including field guides, family specific guides, and narratives from well-known authors and publishers.

Thanks to Space Coast Birding & Nature Festival for sponsoring this episode. Join the ABA in Titusville this January for great birding and fellowship!

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Donna’s Top 5

1) Birds of Central America - Andrew Vallely & Dale Dyer

2) Birds of Prey of the East/West - Brian K. Wheeler

3) Peterson Guide to Bird Identification in 12 Steps - Steve NG Howell & Brian Sullivan

4) The Feather Thief - Kirk Wallace Johnson

5) Belonging on an Island - Daniel Lewis

Nate’s Top 5

1) Birds of Central America - Andrew Vallely & Dale Dyer

2) Gulls Simplified - Pete Dunne & Kevin Karlson

3) Birds of Nicaragua - Liliana Chavarria-Duriaux, Robert Dean, & Robert T. Moore

4) Birds of Prey of the East/West - Brian K. Wheeler

5) ABA Field Guide to Birds of Oregon - Dave Irons & Brian Small

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0:00.0	Come join the ABA, the Space Coast Birding Festival in Titusville, Florida, January 23rd through the 28th, 2019.
0:06.7	It's one of the largest birding in wildlife festivals in the U.S.
0:09.2	and one of the best places to go birding in January.
0:11.6	Florida scrub jays, snail kites, loads of wondering waterfowl at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
0:16.3	We can't wait to see you there.
0:18.0	Get more information at SCBWF.org.
0:27.1	Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding Podcast from the American
0:31.2	Birding Association. I am your host, Nate Swick, and I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving,
0:37.2	at least those listeners in the United
0:38.8	States. I realize I'm a little late for those listeners in Canada. It is the one bird-themed
0:43.9	holiday that we get to celebrate, a time when we are inundated with turkey facts and figures.
0:51.4	Did you know they could fly up to 60 miles an hour? Did you know they got their name because importers marketing them in Great Britain
0:58.0	thought they came from the country Turkey?
1:01.0	Did you know that wild turkey is one of the great conservation success stories on the continent,
1:06.0	even if that success came at the expense of the diversity of North American wild turkeys?
1:10.0	That's probably my favorite
1:11.6	piece of wild turkey esoterica. Time was there were six well-described subspecies. I guess
1:18.7	technically speaking, there still are, of wild turkey and North America. But the species was hunted
1:24.0	to near extinction. By the 1940s, it was extirpated from Canada. It was holding on
1:30.1	in the United States in these isolated populations. But there were reintroduction efforts that were
1:35.9	extremely successful, even though that meant taking the eastern population of wild turkeys and
1:40.3	just putting them everywhere. Conservation was not terribly sophisticated in the 50s and 60s.
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