The Birding Dictionary
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Formats and Prices
- On Sale
- May 6, 2025
- Page Count
- 176 pages
- Publisher
- Workman Publishing Company
- ISBN-13
- 9781523525355
Price
$14.99Price
$19.99 CADFormat
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A clever, humorous gift that’s perfect for any birdwatching obsessive, The Birding Dictionary is a “dictionary” filled with hilarious and informative definitions for more than 200 birding terms, plus over 50 witty full‑color illustrations, by acclaimed science communicator and cartoonist Rosemary Mosco. Terms range from bird species, anatomy, and behaviors to the insider birdwatching jargon that all birders know and speak fluently, from “alpha code” to “zygodactyl.” With equal parts quirky humor, accessible science, and small, impulse giftability, The Birding Dictionary is the latest in Workman’s legendary “pocket dictionary” series, which includes Golfing, Skiing, Sailing, and others, with a whopping 2.5 million copies in print.
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“Best. Dictionary. Ever. In any subject. A bunch of birding words and phrases, given really concise and informative explanations, all presented in Rosemary’s inimitable style: funny, irreverent, whimsical, thought-provoking, and fully entertaining.”—David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds
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“Birding is one of the most rewarding and joyful hobbies in the world. It is also very, very, very silly. No book better captures that delightful duality than Rosemary Mosco’s laugh-out-loud funny guide to the ludicrously amazing and amazingly ludicrous world of birds and birders.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense World
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“Rosemary Mosco is one of the world’s most insightful (and entertaining) observers of birds. In this wise and witty new book, she turns her binoculars the opposite direction and takes a look at birders instead. The result is a lively, perceptive, and gently hilarious view of the birding community. I loved it. Highly recommended!”—Kenn Kaufman, editor of Kaufman Field Guides
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