The completely revised Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition, will be on sale in a matter of weeks – March 11, 2014. You can pre-order the second edition at your local independent bookstore or at Amazon.com or find other online sellers at Random House. Birdwatching interviewed me about the revision, which you can read along
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If you’re looking for a one-of-a-kind gift for someone on your list, there are still a couple of days left to order a piece of my original art and have it delivered before Christmas. See the selection available here. And in case you haven’t heard, the completely revised Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition, will
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Auction closed with a winning bid of $1660! Thanks to everyone for your support. And you can still make a donation at the ABC website here. Like so many other birders, I’ve had the great pleasure of sitting and birding in the Paton’s backyard sanctuary in Patagonia, Arizona, where Violet-crowned Hummingbird is one of the
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Some of you had noticed that the Sibley eGuide was not in the Kindle store any more. Apparently the new Kindle Fire HD tablet required changes in the app, but those are now completed, the app has been resubmitted to the Kindle store for approval, and it should be available within days. Thank you for
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The Sibley eGuide to Birds app for iPhone has been updated. This update adds thumbnail images of every species in the scrolling list and in search results, the option to display common names in French, Spanish, or Latin instead of English, the latest AOU taxonomy including splits of Scripps’s and Guadalupe Murrelet, new audio for
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Update: For future visitors I should explain that I posted this as an April Fool’s Joke. This video converts the voice descriptions from the Sibley Guide to Birds from text-to-speech, and the results are pretty funny, and maybe even a little bit educational. Today I’m very pleased to announce my latest major project. It’s a bird
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Just released and available for download at the Blackberry App World – The Sibley eGuide can now be used on any Blackberry Playbook tablet. All of the features of the eGuide on other platforms are included here: compare any two images, maps, or sounds on a single screen filter by state and by common species
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Just released and available for download at the Windows Phone Marketplace – The Sibley eGuide can now be used on any device running Windows Phone 7. All of the features of the eGuide on other platforms are included here: compare any two images, maps, or sounds on a single screen filter by state and by
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I’m happy to report some news about the Sibley eGuide to birds: The price of the app in all versions has been reduced 30% to $19.99, and a new Lite version for iPhone and iPad is available for free at iTunes. This is a fully functional version of the app that includes only 30 species.
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I’ll be at MassAudubon’s annual Birders Meeting next Saturday, March 3rd, in Waltham, Massachusetts. Directions and more info is here. The theme is seabirds, and there is a great lineup of presentations by such luminaries as Debi Shearwater and Dr. Steven Kress. When you’re not engrossed in the presentations, you can find me at a table
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