2017 Birders’ Gift Guide
It’s that time of year: the final countdown to the holidays. If you have put off gift buying, don’t worry–there’s still time to find that perfect something for the birder on your list. I’ve put together some ideas, all things that I either own myself or would love to receive (you know, just in case you want to buy the perfect something for the Jennie in your life).
For coffee and tea drinkers
For book lovers
It is hard to know where to start when recommending books–there are so many fantastic options. I’m going to narrow my recommendations down to three this year:
- The Sky Painter: This wonderful picture book by Newbery Honor-winning author Margarita Engel and illustrator Aliona Bereghici tells the life of bird artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes. The Sky Painter starts with Louis’ childhood in Ithaca, New York, where his engineer father wants Louis to follow in his footsteps. Instead, Louis dreams of becoming a bird artist. The gorgeous illustrations complement the simple, poetic text, showing Louis as a child, a teenager, a college student, a young man, a conservationist, a husband, and as a father, not just to his own children, but to modern bird art. Appropriate for ages 5 and up, this book is lovely for all ages (for example, I’m just a teensy a little bit older than 5 and I loved it). Published by Two Lions.
- Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White: This follow-up to the 2007 Good Birders Don’t Wear White was published in March 2017. Edited by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Lisa A. White and ABA President Jeffrey Gordon, this new volume includes essays by thirty-six birders (including yours truly) on why they love birding. It’s a fun, fast read that can be digested in bits or consumed in a single gulp. Each short essay ends with tips from the author for growing your birding skills and enjoyment, and light-hearted illustrations by Robert A. Braunfield tie the essays together. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- Birding Without Borders: In 2015 Noah Strycker set out to see half of the world’s 10,000 species of birds in a single calendar year. Birding Without Borders recounts his World Big Year, exhilarating and exhausting, epic and emotional, entrancing and extraordinary. Noah’s writing makes you feel like you are in the field with him as we get to know now only the birds he sees, but the people, places, and situations he encounters along the way to his record-breaking 6,042 species. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
For those in need of wall decor
An advert for Pop Lab’s Birds of North American poster keeps coming up in my news feed on social media. I tend to ignore sponsored ads as a rule, but I was recently in a friend’s office and got to see this in person. Setting aside the fact that Mexico IS, in fact, part of North America, this poster is spectacular. It includes gorgeous illustrations of 740 species of North America’s birds, drawn to scale and generally sorted by taxonomy.
Source: http://blog.aba.org/2017/12/2017-birders-gift-guide.html
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