Birding Is My Favorite Video Game
Cartoons about the Natural World from Bird and Moon, Updated Edition
by Rosemary Mosco
Pub date: 28-July-2026
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publisher’s Summary:
Bestselling cartoonist and animal expert Rosemary Mosco’s beloved debut collection of nature comics returns to roost—enlarged, expanded, and packed with even more feathered hilarity for ultimate ‘birdmaxxing.’
Bestselling author and nature expert Rosemary Mosco’s delightful first collection of comics combines weird science facts, adorable animals, and sweet wit, with a strong environmental message.
This enlarged and updated edition includes new material from her popular webcomic, Bird and Moon, which “does for biology what xkcd does for math” (The Birdist).
- 80+ fact-filled, laugh-out-loud comics about birds and nature
- An enlarged trim size with bigger, bolder images
- 16 pages of brand-new bonus comics
- From a New York Times bestselling author and bird expert
Grab your binoculars and get ready to level up your birding!
Review:
“Birding Is My Favorite Video Game” by Rosemary Mosco is a delightfully fun look at bird behavior, characteristics, and common myths. Mosco also brings in chapters that include moths, butterflies, reptiles, amphibians, and even dinosaurs. The 8-bit style bird art of warblers is definitely unique compared to the other comics inside the pages. The paneled comics are truly funny and have a lot of sarcasm.
There are great facts about climate change and animals, but any reader (especially if giving this to an impressionable child) needs to understand how much of the book is filled with jokes. An example of this is a page of bird anatomy which gives different body parts silly names much like with internet cat memes.
I’d recommend this for the backyard birder or a world-traveling birder who already owns all the “serious” books.
Rating: 4 feathers
This review is provided by NetGalley and the publisher.
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