The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America

I saw this book as sixth place in the 2019 Goodreads Choice Award humor category so thought I would order it from the library. I thought the title was pretty funny, and I thought the juvenile humor might just appeal to some of the actual juveniles in this house, but I didn't share it with them becau......more

I don’t see how you can rate this below all the stars honestly. My father-in-law had a copy at my husbands PhD graduation and briefly skimming it made me buy it immediately. It’s been a coffee table hit, numerous friends and family have bought it since seeing my copy and it’s been a strait up TREAT......more

I am not a bird watcher, and certainly not a birder; bird -er: one who birds. That word is surely one of the most inelegant forced conversions of noun to verb in the English language. Anyway, where I live most of the feathered thieves are pigeons or seagulls, both of which belong to the taxonomy gro......more

I get that this was supposed to be humorous. At times, it was. I appreciated the author poking fun at the pretentious aspects of "birding", and the sketch for "Who is shitting on the picnic table" read like a detective trying to solve the case. The amateur sketchings were a positive addition, too, b......more