Birds of Northeast Texasby Matt White
Note: this review is a reminder to myself, not a discourse on the merits of the book. I'm not qualified to judge that. The book, and similar ones in the series, are being written for science and not for popular readers. As such, they are invaluable as research materials--I could see a doctoral student twenty years hence citing this work in a thesis about changing distribution patterns of upland game birds. For example.
The pictures are nice and the description of the various biomes good, but not exhaustive. It would have been helpful to read much more information about what foods are available in the given areas, and the seasons thereof. But the individual species descriptions are skimpy. They merely relate what you could find online nowadays on the Cornell University All About Birds or the eBird database.
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