
The Birding Dictionary
Rosemary Mosco(Author)
Workman Adult (Publisher)
Published on 29. May 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-5235-2535-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Workman Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
50
Dimensions
Height: 173 mm
Width: 124 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
210 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5235-2535-5 (9781523525355)
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Rosemary Mosco
The Birding Dictionary
E-Book
05/2025
Workman Publishing Company
€7.99
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Person
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.