Re: everyone saying there is truly a field guide for everything: you might not know the half of it!

In my diss. Intro, I write about how field guides have expanded into virtually every realm of natural history study: moths, mushrooms, lichens, mosses, flies, leafminers... https://twitter.com/BirdIzLife/status/1334566863796400130

...not only that, there are field guides for sailboats, aircraft, arrowheads, trains, antique furniture, anthropological artifacts, architecture, even hot sauces!

Plus novels, poems, memoirs, lit. crit., and feature stories and gossip articles that call themselves field guides.

It's a fascinating but also overwhelming topic to research and write about, which is one of the reasons this new field guide to bird prey remains--to be reviewed in a future Birding--caught my eye. It was both a surprising adaptation of the genre, and yet not surprising at all!