The culmination of many years of research, observation, and study, the THE NEW STOKES FIELD GUIDE TO BIRDS: Western Region is factually, visually, and organizationally superior to any other photographic field guide available.
This easy-to-use guide features 636 North American bird species and more than 2,000 stunning color photographs. And yet it’s portable enough to fit in your pocket! The guide includes:
* the newest scientific and common names and phylogenetic order
* special help for identifying birds in flight through important clues of behavior, plumage, and shape
* detailed descriptions of songs and calls
* important behavioral information and key habitat preferences
* the newest range maps, detailing species’ winter, summer, year-round ranges, and migration routes
Whether you are a novice or experienced birder, this new Stokes guide will take your birding to the next level.
Product Features
- Used Book in Good Condition
I am disappointed! ): I ordered this book as a copy for our RV. I currently have 1996 edition in our home. I was excited to see the new edition has more photos, HOWEVER, it NO longer includes the nesting information regarding each bird…not where they nest, how many eggs, time to hatch (incubation), time to fledge…nothing! The 1996 edition includes all of this information, but this new 2013 edition does not. Such an important part to include. I am so disappointed! I wish I had purchased a second copy of…
Love this Stokes Field Guide This is the first Stokes guide I have used and I am in love with it. I see a bird or take a picture of a bird, I look in this bird guide and find a bird that looks exactly like my memory of what I saw or exactly like the picture I took. This is so much better than using field guides with drawings. The information in the book is excellent, well organized, complete and clear. I love that the page numbers where each type of bird is located in the book are listed on the inside front cover. Not…
Detailed text descriptions sold me on this guide I own several excellent birding field guides including the most recent SIbley’s and the National Geographics. But this has become my ‘go to’ guide for identification because of the extensive text descriptions. Each bird is described for every season, age, gender and flight display with helpful comparisons with and differences from similar birds.