Overview
With birding more popular than ever, this clever pocket-sized guide is a unique gift that celebrates the obsession with hilarious definitions and clever illustrations of terms that birders know and love. Acclaimed science communicator and cartoonist Rosemary Mosco offers a clever, humorous gift that's perfect for any birdwatching obsessive in The Birding Dictionary. It is a ""dictionary"" filled with hilarious and informative definitions for more than 200 birding terms, plus over 50 witty full-color illustrations. 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 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Rosemary Mosco
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Imprint: Workman Adult
Dimensions:
Width: 12.40cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 17.60cm
Weight: 0.213kg
ISBN: 9781523525355
ISBN 10: 1523525355
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 29 May 2025
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
""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 ""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 ""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
Author Information
Rosemary Mosco is a science communicator, acclaimed cartoonist, and speaker on all things bird. She has written and drawn for The New York Times, Audubon, and elsewhere, and she is the author of A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching and co-author ofTheAtlas Obscura Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid. She lives in Massachusetts.
