The first comprehensive field guide to North American warblers describes all 60 species in detail, from field marks and vocalizations to mating habits and preferred habitats. The 32 color paintings use the unique Peterson Identification System to indicate what distinguishes one bird from another. 141 color photographs show various plumages for each species, and 60 large color maps show species’ ranges.The Peterson Field Guides series has added another weapon to its considerable arsenal of bird-identification guidebooks: a field guide devoted solely to the warblers of North America. Warblers, those small, sprightly, colorful songbirds that move north through the continent for the breeding season, have always delighted and simultaneously frustrated birders around the country. This field guide won’t cure any cases of “warbler neck”–a condition brought on by extensive peering into the treetops–but it will help you to better decide just which species has your craned-neck attention. With color plates (including the “Peterson System” of arrows indicating important field marks), photographs, distribution maps, and textual information on species description, habitat, behavior, song, plumage variations, and migration patterns, this is an essential resource for birders.
Well Worth it for Warblers Confession: I looooove birding but secretly hate warblers. They drive me nuts. Tell one from another? Surely you jest.However, this book–which is written and organized like other Peterson Guides, has made life a bit easier. Only warblers. All warblers. Easier to compare and contrast…It will always be on my shelf now. I’ll still hate ID-ing warblers but with luck I’ll get better at recognizing them.Because after all, they are the prettiest little things, aren’t they?
A Valuable Reference Thirty-six species of warblers have been reported in my local area by reliable sources. I have seen and photographed 28 of the locally seen warbler species, and this Peterson Field Guide has proved to be a very valuable reference, especially when considering variable species plumage as a function of maturity, gender, and season.I usually go to the plates first, and then read the related text. The only complaint I have is that the plates are not in alphabetical order by species, and…
A must have for beginners and experts in fall migration. I’ve used this field guide to great affect while trying to ID immature Wood Warblers during fall migration. Provides great plates for most, or all, plumage morphs of every species. Some plates do have exaggerated coloration or patterning that makes ID less certain on drab individuals with out a second reference but only some.