100 Flying Birds

"A gorgeous visual pick for collections strong in wildlife photography or ornithology alike. Even general-interest readers who have no special interest in science or photos, but who enjoy birds, will find this oversized presentation of images accessible and visually gorgeous as Cavanagh studies bird flight via the camera lens to provide details on aviary aerodynamics and natural history. The full-page images and their accompanying information are unique, compelling attractions for anyone who likes birds and wants more details about their flight and natural history.--Diane C. Donovan ""Donovan's Bookshelf"" (12/1/2021 12:00:00 AM) Artists who paint birds need clear reference photos of various flight positions. A new book called 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight delivers a helpful collection of images in a beautiful and useful form... The photos are sharp and clear, reproduced full-page along with the author's commentary... The text presents the context of the shot, the mechanics of the flight pose, or insights about behavior or the environment. That text combined with the photos makes this an unusually welcome resource for birdwatchers or ornithological artists who want a better understanding of their subject.--James Gurney ""Gurney Journey Blog"" (12/13/2021 12:00:00 AM) Every page of Peter Cavanagh's ""100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight,"" from the preface... to the ending acknowledgements is a delight for the bird enthusiast regardless of whether or not they are an active or living-room birder. It's a must read, especially for anyone thrilled by the sight of feathered flight...Of the many dozens of bird books that I have read, skimmed, purchased or borrowed over 60 or so years, no one has inspired me more than Peter Cavanagh and his 100 Flying Birds.--Thom Smith ""Berkshire Eagle"" (11/25/2021 12:00:00 AM) I was expecting 100 Flying Birds to be something of a coffee-table book, designed to showcase a set of attractive photos of beautiful birds -- and, indeed, to a large part that is what it is -- but there is considerably more to this book than just the pretty pictures... All in all, this feels like a complete, authoritative and interesting book with heaps of information hung off the main attraction, the (just over) 100 stunning photographs of birds in flight.--Stephen Menzie ""British Birds Magazine"" (6/1/2023 12:00:00 AM) If a camera is your birding tool of choice or is a consideration, here is a book focused sharply on you... His stories define what sounds like a delightful and generous field companion, sharing the best of how he does bird photography along with why it didn't always go as planned.--Jim Williams ""Star Tribune"" (11/23/2021 12:00:00 AM) In his pictorial volume, the author sets out to capture the very essence of flight. Each of the hundred birds in his beautiful coffee table book is depicted mid-flight, the result being a book filled with a vantage point not normally seen. Flipping through the pages, one is impressed at the sheer variety of flight stances. No two birds fly in the same way, and Cavanagh has gone to great lengths to depict each and every one.... These are blink-and-you-miss-it moments which Cavanagh has collected for the reader's benefit, and they are truly astounding. 100 Flying Birds is a must for the true bird lover and a worthy addition to any coffee table.--David Neilsen ""Hook Magazine"" (7/1/2022 12:00:00 AM) In this new book, he [Peter] displays his love of birds and his talent with the camera. After all, flight photography is perhaps the most challenging of bird-photography tasks, but Cavanagh does not fail to impress.-- ""Bird Watching Magazine"" (11/1/2021 12:00:00 AM) Perfectly captures the striking sight of wild birds in flight.--Georgina Probert ""Cage and Aviary Birds Newspaper"" (12/1/2021 12:00:00 AM) Peter Cavanagh's top 100 selection, from the more than a half million images that he's taken all over the world, highlights both aesthetics and aerodynamic design. Hummingbird plumage, iridescent in millisecond exposures, is rendered in minute detail; Andean condors spread their ten-foot-wide wings over two-page spreads; Galapagos hawks attack with talons outstretched. Cavanagh's delightful field stories and nerdy tech information enliven every facing page.--Laurence A. Marschall ""Natural History Museum Magazine"" (12/1/2021 12:00:00 AM) You may have seen many pictures of, say, Roseate spoonbills in an estuary, but likely none as awesome and powerful -- and lovely -- as the one in this book, with legs and wings in full flight extension, showing off its spectacular colors (colors, plural, not just the roseate). And similarly with 99 other birds -- raptors, songbirds, ducks, and otherwise. Each image is accompanied by a page of prose detail on the bird... And of detail, as well, of the process involved in taking that particular photograph. No matter how big your avian-related library is, this would be a terrific addition to it.--Mark Gamin ""10,000 Birds Blog"" (12/4/2021 12:00:00 AM)"