Buy

Birdwatching: A Different Sort of Guide
The expanded third edition of this book is now available for $27.95 at Books and Company at Prince George and Quesnel, at Mountain Eagle Books in Smithers, at Bacchus Books in Golden and Armchair Books in Whistler. It is also available by mail order from Buteo Books. Building on earlier editions, it is now a 254-page soft-cover book comprising 89 essays and 178 colour photographs.

Birding: A Flock of Irreverent Essays
This is available for reading on a Kindle from Amazon. If you don’t have a Kindle, you can still read the book on a computer by downloading a free reader.

Price in the US and Canada: $4.99
Price in the UK: £2.99

To buy, click on the book title above, or head to one of the following and enter birding: a flock in the search line:

• U.S: amazon.com/kindlebooks
• Canada: amazon.ca/kindlebooks
• U.K: amazon.co.uk/kindlebooks

Note that this edition, like all eBooks for the electronic-ink Kindle, is black-and-white text only. However, the publisher is working towards creating a fully illustrated colour version of Birdwatching: A Different Sort of Guide for the Kindle Fire, tablets or PCs.

Photographs are in fact a very useful addition to the text, illustrating the points made. For instance, the article “Do Birds have a Sense of Fun?” discusses the issue of
anthropomorphic interpretations. Are we always wrong when we try to interpret behaviour in human terms? This Cattle Egret was discovered early one morning, while it, and the author, were preparing for a long day in the fields. Is it too great a stretch to compare their states of mind?