Authors: PETE DUNNE AND KEVIN T. KARLSON

More than half a century has passed since the publication of “The Shorebirds of North America,” Peter Matthiessen’s masterful natural history of what is arguably the world’s most amazing and specialized bird group.

In the intervening decades, our knowledge about these birds has grown significantly, as have the threats to their populations and habitats. Pete Dunne and Kevin Karlson celebrate Matthiessen’s classic book with this updated and expanded natural history of North American shorebirds.