Counting Birds

When I was a teen, I started a summer program that invited me to count all the different kinds of butterflies that live in my garden Year after year, many were disappearing and it was such a joy to spot some rare one. This book reminds me of this scientific tradition. Counting Birds is a fascinating book about the Audubon Christmas Count, an annual scientific project that invites people from all over the world to count as many birds as possible on Christmas Day. All begin with Frank Chapman, an self-made ornithologist, who decided to replace the famous ‘Christmas bird hunting' by a ‘Christmas bird counting'. He was inspired by the oh so famous ornithologist John Audubon, and later used his name for this annual bird counting.

I enjoyed the colorful and accurate collage art style, and I especially loved when the author introduces different types of birds one by one. What a great idea to include an invitation to become of ‘birder', someone helping to count bird, or to become a member of one of many other organizations that work on the preservation of birds! From beginning to end, this is a very well crafted book!

Thank you NetGalley and Seagrass Press for providing me with a free digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

Read and reviewed: 2018-11-04