Spot the silhouette of a Northern Goshawk in flight. Identify the raucous call of the Red-winged Blackbird. Discover the secret of picking out a Chipping Sparrow from its look-alike cousins. It’s simple with this classic field guide, a treasured favorite among amateur bird lovers and exacting professionals. Recognized as the authority on bird identification, this invaluable resource provides:
-All of North America in one volume
-Over 800 species and 600 range maps
-Arthur Singer’s famous illustrations featuring male, female, and juvenile plumage
-Sonograms that picture sound for easy song recognition
-Migration routes, feeding habits, and characteristic flight patterns
-American ornithologists’ classifications
-Convenient check boxes to record birds you have identified
-Color tabs for quick references
Product Features
- Dimension(in): 7.50(L) x 4.50(W) x 0.60(D)
New edition of Birds of North America (Golden Field Guide Series) should fly away!!! Wish I could rate this item 0. You DO NOT want this book. I returned my order to Amazon, would not consider owning it. In Introduction it is stated “….we have sought to preserve the strengths of the previous editor.” The former publisher, Western Publishing (printed in USA) should be gnashing their teeth at this statement.
Careless reproduction of a great guide The scans of Arthur Singer’s beautiful plates are sharp and fairly good in color, a bit t too yellow and pale sometimes. A quick ten minutes showed the following problems: The kingbird plate is MISSING. Instead the myiarchus flycatcher plate is shown twice. Many of the plates are cropped so parts of birds are missing. Half of the Yellow-breasted Chat. Bill of the Mourning Warbler. The little range maps following each species account are sometimes after the wrong species. Gilded Flicker for…
I still like the way that they display the similar species together … I bought this book to replace an earlier edition of the book that I’ve carried for years and used as my life list check list. The pages in my old book are dog eared and well worn. I’m not sure how well this new book will hold up. The paper is thinner, and the print looks a little washed out (lighter colors). The text and page numbers are the same. However, the checklist boxes in the index are missing. On the back cover, the dark box says that these check boxes are present, although they…