Newsletter: July 2025

Hello, Buteo!

Welcome to the July 2025 edition of our News & Notes email. Each month, we highlight new and new-to-us bird books, stories and recommendations from the community, plus special offers.

Last week, I had the pleasure of participating in a ranger-led, after hours hike in Muir Woods. While I hoped to see or hear a northern spotted owl (alas! no such luck), our group was just as excited to encounter banana slugs, an albino redwood, and to simply wander in nature after dark.

Will you be visiting a national park or monument this summer? Scroll on for a few books about birds in national parks, and if you're interested in protecting public lands, this is a link worth exploring.

—Lyzy Lusterman, Buteo Books

Just Flown in...

Something to Auk About

Tim Birkhead's latest, The Great Auk: Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife is proving to be the bird book of the summer! The great auk may have been flightless, but this story is flying off our shelves.

In a book rich with insight and packed with tales of bird and people, Birkhead reveals previously unimagined aspects of the bird's life before humanity, its death on the killing shores of the North Atlantic, and the unrelenting subsequent quest for its remains.

These birds remain a symbol of human folly and the necessity of conversation. Here are a few other auk-related titles you might want to read next:

Coming Soon

More Books for You

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