Better Birding reveals the techniques expert birders use to identify a wide array of bird species in the field―quickly and easily. Featuring hundreds of stunning photos and composite plates throughout, this book simplifies identification by organizing the birds you see into groupings and offering strategies specifically tailored to each group. Skill building focuses not just on traditional elements such as plumage, but also on creating a context around each bird, including habitat, behavior, and taxonomy―parts so integral to every bird’s identity but often glossed over by typical field guides. Critical background information is provided for each group, enabling you to approach bird identification with a wide-angle view, using your eyes, brain, and binoculars more strategically, resulting in a more organized approach to learning birds.
Better Birding puts the thrill of expert bird identification within your reach.
Reveals the techniques used by expert birders for quick and easy identificationSimplifies identification with strategies tailored to different groupings of birdsFeatures hundreds of photos and composite plates that illustrate the different techniquesFosters a wide-angle approach to field birdingProvides a foundation for building stronger birding skills
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Not To Be Missed. I’ve just read about half this book, which came in the mail yesterday. The photographs are all of very high quality and also very well selected to illustrate some of the more difficult issues in North American bird identification. Throughout, the writing is terse and accessible but full of new observations about birds whose identification I haven’t thought about thoroughly or critically enough in many cases. I’m one of those aging birders, and though I don’t like to admit it, eyes, ears, and…
The gift that will keep on giving A field guide is a gift that keeps giving, since you can crack it open hundreds (if not thousands) of times and never tire of it, and always learn something new. Little gifts of knowledge, presented to you, sometimes when you least expect it.I gifted myself a thousand-times over when I pre-ordered my copy of Better Birding.I received Better Birding from Amazon in the mail a week ago, and can’t put it down. This is the most comprehensive guide to birding I’ve ever opened, and…
Teaches you to look at birds by plumage and habitat and store some information on certain groups for use in field Like the Peterson series book Birding by Impression, this book teaches you to look at birds and store some information about bird groups for use in the field. Many birds have confusing plumage and sometimes variable, so you focus only on the parts that help you pin the ID.Like the Peterson book, it does a set of birds, grouped together for study. Warblers are left out, so are most sparrows. The difficult sparrow like birds of the open plains are well covered.Shorebirds…