The Shorebird Guide | 
| Authors: Richard Crossley, Kevin Karlson, Michael O'brien
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 16588
Media: Turtleback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 496
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.2 x 1.5
ISBN: 0618432949
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.33
EAN: 9780618432943
ASIN: 0618432949
Publication Date: April 24, 2006
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Condition: Brand new. Never been read. Tight binding. Mint condition.
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Product Description
Birding by impression: an all-new, holistic approach to identifying shorebirds.
Join the experts in this revolutionary approach to bird identification. Experienced birders use the most easily observed characteristics ? size, structure, behavior, and general color patterns ? to identify birds even before looking carefully at plumage details. Now birders at all levels can learn how to identify shorebirds quickly and simply. This guide includes more than 870 stunning color photographs, starting with a general impression of the species and progressing to more detailed images of the bird throughout its life cycle. Quiz questions in the captions will engage and challenge all birders and help them benefit from this simplified, commonsense approach to identification.
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A Testament To The Progression Of Bird Identification June 3, 2008
Over the past few years an avant-garde style of bird identification has arisen. The classic "Peterson Identification Method" (much revered by bird lovers, instrumental in the formation of birding itself, and still highly useful), which stresses the importance of unique "field marks" is slowly ceding to a new holistic approach (also known as GISS: General Impression of Shape and Size).
This guide is at the forefront of that movement, along with Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion, and should be on the shelf of any birder who wishes to improve his or her identification skills. Novice birders often wonder at the mastery of experts who can identify birds far away immediately without raising their binoculars; such ability can only come with experience, but this book offers valuable insight into that esoteric ability.
The Shorebird Guide February 28, 2008
This is the Bird ID book that can stay on the coffee table. Pages and pages of wonderful pictures of shorebirds make up the front section of the book. Let me be quick to point out if you are looking for gulls or terns they will not be in this book. This is a book about the small brownish birds ( sometimes called Peeps) that can be seen on our shores. Sanderlings, sandpipers, Godwitts, Dunlin, and our rapidly declining Red Knots are the subjects of this book. If you want to know shore birds this is the book.
Peterson's The Shorebird Guide February 23, 2008
This book was extremely helpful for identifying shorebirds. It shows them on the ground close up, in flight and in flocks. Detailed descriptions of status, taxonomy, behavior, migration, molt and vocalizations. Photography is excellent. If you live on or near water and need a guide, this is the one!
Amazing! December 30, 2007
I bought this book for my uncle who LOVES bird watching and he is amazed with this book! It offers a lot of information many other books don't. I highly recommend purchasing this for the bird lover! :)
The Definitive Guide to ShoreBirds July 29, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Of all of the information available that involves Shorebirds, this book is equal to none. It provides the most organized and complete understanding of the complicated life cycles of these birds. The photograpy is excellent not only in its quality but also in its visualizations of the different life cycles. The book advances how we look upon these types of birds by drawing refined attention to their life cycles and their ecosystems. This is a must have for all birders libraries.
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