| Birds of North America |  | Authors: Robbins, Eliot Porter
Publisher: Golden Books Publishing Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 3920367
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 0307470253
EAN: 9780307470256
ASIN: 0307470253
Publication Date: November 1992
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Product Description
Spot the silhouette of a Northern Goshawk in flight. Identify the raucous call of the Red-winged Blackbird. Discover the secret of picking out a Chipping Sparrow from its look-alike cousins. It's simple with this classic field guide, a treasured favorite among amateur bird lovers and exacting professionals. Recognized as the authority on bird identification, this invaluable resource provides:
-All of North America in one volume
-Over 800 species and 600 range maps
-Arthur Singer's famous illustrations featuring male, female, and juvenile plumage
-Sonograms that picture sound for easy song recognition
-Migration routes, feeding habits, and characteristic flight patterns
-American ornithologists' classifications
-Convenient check boxes to record birds you have identified
-Color tabs for quick references
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| Customer Reviews: Read 40 more reviews...
great book May 30, 2008
this book was recommended to me as a beginner backyard bird watcher. the drawings are so accurate it is easy to identify the birds quickly. enjoying it and the birds that visit. highly recommend.
 Subpar May 11, 2008
This guide is not very good. The pictures are fuzzy, like the editors photocopied them into the book. The range maps do not show state lines, which can be endlessly frustrating - particularly if you live in the continent's interior, as I do. I suppose there is only one advantage to the maps: the lack of state lines forces the reader to be, perhaps, generous with their estimation of the bird's range; this encourages the interpretation of birds' ranges as being flexible (which they are).
As another reviewer commented, why spend the money for an inferior guide when you can spend a similar amount of money on an outstanding guide?
Dependable information April 19, 2008
I had used an earlier version of this book for years. The pages were literally falling out. I was delighted to get an updated edition. Especially useful are the color illustrations.
If there were one thing I would add to this directory, it would be an index by color. Sometimes I see an unfamiliar bird and it would be handy to look in the back and see an index of birds by the dominant feather color.
Of all the bird books I have used/seen,I prefer this one and find it the most user friendly.
 Best Bird Book Ever April 5, 2008
This Bird Book is the best book on identification of birds I have ever used. It is comprehensive, and the photos are extremely accurate. I have used it for years and no other bird book comes close to how accurate it is. This book has every possible variety of each type of bird and photos so that you can easily identify them. I have been a birder for over 10 years and this is my Bible.
Excellent gift for a friend March 18, 2008
Thank you for shipping this book in so timely a manner. It arrived in excellent condition and ready to give to a friend as a gift.
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