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2024 Reviews

October: Mrs Moreau’s Warbler–How Birds Got Their Names
September: Of Time and Turtles–Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
August: The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
June: An Immense World–How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
May: What an Owl Knows–The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds
March: Alfie & Me–What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
January: Crossings–How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

2023 Reviews

November: Weeds: In Defence of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants
October: The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science

2022 Reviews

May: Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why they Matter

2021 Reviews

November: Tides: The science and spirit of the ocean
September: A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
March: Great Adaptations: Star-nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved
February: Owls of the Eastern Ice: A quest to find and save the world’s largest owl
January: What It’s Like to be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds are doing and Why

2020 Reviews

October: The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
August: Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
June: On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon
February: Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard

2019 Reviews

November: Darwin’s Backyard: How Small Experiences Led to a Big Theory
September: The Wall of Birds: An Artistic Journey
July: Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies
April: Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds
March: A Parliament of Owls
February: Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang
January: Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

2018 Reviews

December: Phoebe’s Heron
October: The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
September: Saving Tarboo Creek: One Family’s Quest to Heal the Land
July: The Soul of an Octopus
April: The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors
January: The Crossley ID Guide to Waterfowl

2017 Reviews

November: What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
October: The Invention of Nature
September: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
August: Colorado Mountain Birds: A Layman’s Guide to Birdwatching in Colorado’s Mountain Areas
July: The Genius of Birds
June: Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips from North America’s Top Birders
May: Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier
April: Owl: A Year in the Lives of North American Owls
March: Land of Grass and Sky: A Naturalist’s Prairie Journey
January: The Hidden Lives of Owls

2016 Reviews

December: One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives
November: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
October: The Hidden Life of Trees
September: What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
August: Listening to a Continent Sing: Birdsongs by Bicycle from the Atlantic to the Pacific
July: How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher
June: Ravens in Winter
April: The Living Bird: 100 Years of Listening to Nature
March: Northern Goshawk: The Gray Ghost
February: H is for Hawk
January: Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel