National Geographic Field Guide to Birds provides affordable, portable, reliable region-specific information, perfect for the novice or experienced birder. In each guide, an introduction by an expert birder from the region offers guidance on where to look for key birds. An opening section gives pointers on how to look for key birds and what to focus on when you spot them. Each guide features approximately 150 birds, grouped by family. Two indexes: one alphabetical and one color-coded help readers identify a bird quickly.
Each entry has a vivid photograph showing the bird in its native habitat. On the facing page, there is a list of bulleted points of field identification clues as well as behavioral and habitat information, and the best local places to find the bird. Special field notes give additional i.d. or behavioral information and detailed maps show the range of each bird’s habitat. With comprehensive coverage of the region and valuable advice from experts, these user-friendly guides will quickly become favorite companions on the journey to lifelong birding.
In Texas, birders will find the richest possible range of species in this ultimate migration ground that draws birds from around the world.
Do not waste your money!!! If you are anyone other than a novice birder DO NOT purchase this book! This is a photography book more than it is a “Field Guide”. It does not provide information on every bird in the state, just the one’s the author and editor thought were important. This book is set-up with a one page photo of the male; if you see a female you will need a different book for identification. Opposite the photo is a write-up of the habitat, a state map and a small field note section that may list a similar…
Well below the “Geo Guide” standard This book is published by the organization which also produces the NA Bird field guide considered “best” by most avid birders, the National Geographic Field Guide (Geo guide for short). However it is absolutely NOTHING like said field guide! It is very small (6 inches by 4 inches) and consists entirely of full page color photographs on the left page, and brief descriptive text with a Texas-only range map on the right page. At the bottom of the text page are even more brief notes, usually…
Four Stars Not a very comprehensive guide. Range maps were helpful.