The Birds of Michigan |  | Authors: James Granlund, Gail A. Mcpeek, Raymond J. Adams
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1085401
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.5
Dimensions (in): 12.3 x 9.5 x 1.8
ISBN: 025330122X
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.29774
EAN: 9780253301222
ASIN: 025330122X
Publication Date: December 1994
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The Book of Michigan Birds by those that know them best December 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a large beautiful edition of Michigan birds written by many of Michigan's ornithologists and most knowledgable birders. The illustrations and artwork are superb and I wish I could have them as artwork in my home without tearing them out of the book.
This is not a field guide or identification book but a resource of most of the knowledge about each species of bird seen in Michigan up to the publication date of the book.
I refer to this often when I wish to get more information on a birds history of occurance in the state or its population status or biology.
More recent information on species status and sightings can be found on the Michigan Bird Records Committee website.
Anyone that is interested in the birds of Michigan would treasure this book.
A 'must have' for Michigan birders July 2, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
"The Birds of Michigan" is more than an oversize picture book. It's a treasure. The 200 species of birds that nest in Michigan are depicted in original, full color paintings by Michigan artists, and the detailed text on over 400 birds that have been seen in the state is compulsive reading. The species accounts were written by some of the state's leading ornithologist-naturalists, including their own field observations, and I learned something new about my favorite birds on almost every page. Originally, I'd checked "The Birds of Michigan" out of the library, but once I'd read it, I had to buy a copy of my own.
The careful observations and the level of detail about each species sets a standard none of the field guides can match:
*The earliest published spring arrival date for Chimney Swifts in Detroit is 04/05/1981.
*Belted Kingfishers excavate nesting burrows in river banks, usually taking a week to dig a tunnel three to six feet long.
*Forest regeneration and winter feeding stations have extended the range of the Red-Bellied Woodpecker to the Northern Lower Peninsula.
*I'm glad I'm not the only birder in Michigan who misidentifies the Pine Warbler for a Chipping or Swamp Sparrow!
My heart-felt thanks to the artists, ornithologists, editors, and sponsors of this book: Sarett Nature Center; Kalamazoo Nature Center; and First of America Bank. It must have very expensive to produce, but the results are worth every penny spent. My only suggestion for the next edition would be the inclusion of a CD of Michigan birdsongs.
Blessed by Peterson December 15, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Natural History of Michigan avifauna presented includes population fluctuation, habitat changes, current status; historical records verified from as far back as the 19th c. in some cases. Reasons for decline or increase in numbers and range are usually well known or theorized by ornithologists (there are a few unsolved mysteries) A less pedestrian look at these details: " Maurice Gibbs in 1879 reports the Cardinal or 'Red Bird' as an "accidental visitor"
Artwork: Full sized color plates = full page layouts featuring the male and female set amongst their preferred habitats or a vegetaional sample. A Bobolink chortles in his mellow hay field, The Towhees scratch leaves under the brambles and the Great Gray Owl is caught in the act of enchanting his Northern starlit forest.
Includes species extinct and extirpated as well as all species that have visited the State at least once on record. As an example, a McCown's Longspur is listed as a Michigan bird, a species that rarely if ever seen anywhere beyond it's breeding range in the Upper Midwest, (Colorado to Alberta), yet a verified record exists at Whitefish Point - Chippewa County in May, 1981.
What else? If anything it manages to capture the great beauty found in the details of a birds life. (The Great Horned owl female sits through yet another snowstorm on an old heron nest to keep her two eggs warm in the late winter incubation period.)
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