Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Bird and Moon Comics, Revised Edition - by Rosemary Mosco (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Bestselling cartoonist and animal expert Rosemary Mosco's beloved debut collection, Birding Is My Favorite Video Game, returns to roost, enlarged and expanded for ultimate "birdmaxxing"!

Did you know which songbird's call sounds like "Cheeseburger!"? Or the difference between poisonous and venomous animals? Or the true interactions between milkweed plants and monarch butterflies?

This new edition of Rosemary Mosco's celebrated debut, Birding Is My Favorite Video Game explains these and many other observations from the natural world in more than 80 comics from science writer Rosemary Mosco's popular webcomic Bird and Moon. Sweet, funny, and educational, Mosco's colorful illustrations of different animal and plant species raise awareness for climate change and prove we are not so different after all.

Featuring a wide range of our feathered friends, as well as turtles, bees, snakes, squid, friendly bacteria, and more, this is the perfect gift for:

• The birder, biologist, or animal lover in your life
• Anyone who enjoys random but cool trivia
• Fans of quirky cartoons with a message.

About the Author

Rosemary is an author, illustrator, and speaker whose work connects people with the natural world. She's written and drawn for The New York Times, Audubon, Rewiring America, the PBS Kids show Elinor Wonders Why, Ranger Rick, and more, and makes a regular comic strip in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Living Bird magazine. She creates science books for kids and adults and the nature comic Bird and Moon, which won the National Cartoonists Society's award for Best Online Short Form Comic and was the subject of an award-winning museum exhibit. Her climate change comics were exhibited at AAAS headquarters and the Peabody Essex Museum. She gives engaging talks and workshops to groups of all ages. Rosemary is a graduate of the Field Naturalist Program. She judged a bird tattoo contest (twice!) and co-founded an event celebrating invertebrate butts.