3 thoughts on “National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America”
Beautiful comprehensive field guide with great features This field guide is beautiful and has some great features. There is a quick index on the inside front cover to make it easy to find things fast, and there are some pages that show raptors in flight from underneath, which is just brilliant. There is a ton of information in this book. It is my favorite field guide. I also have the Sibley’s Eastern US guide and I prefer this one. It is well worth the price.
A superb, comprehensive guide. The text and maps contained here are unexcelled and I find the artwork, font size, and printing quality to be of very high quality. The only quibbles I ever hear about the NGS guide are that the plates are painted by multiple artists, and the style and quality of their work is not identical. I’m not certain that I concur to the degree that I would relegate this guide to 2nd place behind any other. Another plus is that, although the NGS guide is not pocket-sized, it is small enough to take into…
I carry a guide to help others in the field enjoy their new found lifer The seventh ed. will go next to six other heavily notated editions as each edition improves upon the last,and changes to the nomenclaturecontinue. Six months may pass before I scan every page. After fifty five plus years of birding I tend not to use a field guide but carry an old schoolpocket note book and take Grinnell style notes. I carry a guide to help others in the field enjoy their new found lifer.The seventh edition is well worth having.
Beautiful comprehensive field guide with great features This field guide is beautiful and has some great features. There is a quick index on the inside front cover to make it easy to find things fast, and there are some pages that show raptors in flight from underneath, which is just brilliant. There is a ton of information in this book. It is my favorite field guide. I also have the Sibley’s Eastern US guide and I prefer this one. It is well worth the price.
A superb, comprehensive guide. The text and maps contained here are unexcelled and I find the artwork, font size, and printing quality to be of very high quality. The only quibbles I ever hear about the NGS guide are that the plates are painted by multiple artists, and the style and quality of their work is not identical. I’m not certain that I concur to the degree that I would relegate this guide to 2nd place behind any other. Another plus is that, although the NGS guide is not pocket-sized, it is small enough to take into…
I carry a guide to help others in the field enjoy their new found lifer The seventh ed. will go next to six other heavily notated editions as each edition improves upon the last,and changes to the nomenclaturecontinue. Six months may pass before I scan every page. After fifty five plus years of birding I tend not to use a field guide but carry an old schoolpocket note book and take Grinnell style notes. I carry a guide to help others in the field enjoy their new found lifer.The seventh edition is well worth having.