New enthusiasts are flocking in record numbers to the fascinating pastime of birding. National Geographic has been meeting their need for clear and accurate information for 25 years with our million-selling Field Guide to the Birds of North America. Now, to better serve the expanding market, we’ve customized our field-guide format to offer unique coverage for birders east or west of the Rocky Mountains. These new volumes deliver in-depth information on every bird officially recorded in the specified area, with illustrated accounts of the different plumages and life stages, along with hundreds of color-coded range maps.
Unique features set these guides apart from the competition and promise to win a new generation of readers: A full-color visual index, printed on the inside covers, makes the content accessible visually a real boon to beginning and intermediate birders. Annotated artwork highlights birds’ key physical features, making identification easier. Thumb-tabs help readers find information fast. Durable covers stand up to outdoor use, with integrated quick-reference flaps that double as place-markers.Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America details 619 species and contains 560 new range maps, plus illustrated accounts for 85 casual and accidental birds and an appendix listing 70 rarities.
Product Features
- Birds
- Bird guide
- eastern North America
- plumage
- life stages
Solid Book, great content is there This book is seemingly complete and compact enough to carry around without adding too much weight. I would have given this another star, but I actually bought the Stokes’ guide around the same time. The drawings in this book are really good, but drawings just don’t compare to the pictures in that guide. The Stokes book is definitely an upgrade, but it’s also an upgrade in weight to where I would have a little trouble classifying it as a field guide. This NG book is a good product, I wouldn’t…
Best Field Guide Choice I have used and own nearly every field guide (for birds) there is, for decades. This is the BEST. You can take it out in the field and identify what you are seeing. That’s the point! There are some beautiful guides out there but when you get in the field with them you can’t identify what you are seeing, for sure. With this one you can. The art is bright and crisp, and the text adds very helpful information for identifying your bird in question. The size is perfect. I own half a dozen copies,…
while not as easy to carry in the field Bought the full guide then discovered this volume for the Eastern region so bought it too. Some people may be inclined to regard a Nat Geo guide as something a grandmother might use every now and then to ID feeder birds from the comfort of a victorian chair but this guide, while not as easy to carry in the field, is easily the best all around guide there is.