Birding Book Club – Best of 2022

December 8, 2022

It is time once more for the most anticipated Birding Book Club of the year, our annual Best Bird Books of the Year episode for 2022. With the holiday gift-giving season is right around the corner there’s no better time to give the gift of bird books to the birder in your life. Or yourself, we don’t judge. We are joined by 10,000 Birds book reviewer Donna Schulman and Birding magazine media and book review editor Frank Izaguirre to talk about what we loved this year in bird books.

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Nate’s Top 5

1) Vagrancy in Birds – Alexander Lees & James Gilroy

2) The Bird Name Book – Susan Myers

3) Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide – Linda Tuttle-Adams

4) The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Maine – Nick Lund

5) Birds and Us – Tim Birkhead

Donna’s Top 5

1) Vagrancy in Birds – Alexander Lees & James Gilroy

2) The Bird Name Book – Susan Myers

3) Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide – Linda Tuttle-Adams

4) The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Maine – Nick Lund

5) Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area, 2 ed. – Pasadena Audubon

Frank’s Top 5

1) Elusive Birds of the Tropical Understory – ed. John P. Whitelaw, et al

2) Bird Brother: A Falconer’s Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife – Rodney Stotts

3) Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide – Linda Tuttle-Adams

4)  Vagrancy in Birds – Alexander Lees & James Gilroy

5) The Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism 1850-1920 – Andrea L. Smalley

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