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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 598.097 EAN: 9780061120404 Edition: Pap/DVD ISBN: 0061120405 Label: Collins Manufacturer: Collins Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 528 Publication Date: June 01, 2008 Publisher: Collins Release Date: May 27, 2008 Studio: Collins Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: This new field guide provides a suite of modern tools to effectively aid in the identification of more than 750 species of birds across North America. It introduces a "whole bird" approach by concisely gathering a collection of information about birds into one portable and well-organized volume.
The new Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America is perfectly designed to give birders the most powerful and user-friendly collection of information to carry into the field or wherever they enjoy learning about birds and nature. A Look (and Listen) Inside the Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America
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 Rating:  - "The Best" Field Guide!I am just starting out birding, so this is my first field guide. But as I was picking out which guide to purchase, I quickly realized this was the one to go with. The features that make this guide superior are: actual photos (not drawings), multiple images (juvenile, adult, male/female, multiple color morphs, subspecies, in flight, or anything that helps in ID). And the main thing I liked is that all the text info is on the same pages as the photos (unlike the audobon society guide which forces ... Read More Rating: - Informative and thorough.This is an excellent field guide: well researched and written. The photos are beautiful and the descriptions are clear. A perfect layman's guide. Rating: - Outstanding, but not aloneThe Smithsonian Field Guide to Birds of North America is an outstanding contribution to a crowded field. Unlike the Peterson and National Geographic Guides (among others), this guide uses high quality photographs taken of the birds in a characteristic environment. Detailed, well colored maps indicate the yearly range of the bird specifying breeding, migration, winter, year round, and rare ranges. Photographic quality is uniformly excellent. But the biggest advantage of this book is that it comes with ... Read More Rating:  - Excellent guideI'm going to start with the summary first, for those in a hurry: this is a wonderful guide, chock full of full, high-color photographs and a fantastic CD with bird calls on it that can be downloaded to an MP3 player. With the possible exception of the fact I had some issues actually correlating the birds in real life before me with their counterparts in the book, I really like having this book as reference. Birds are categorized according to their species and further information is provided ... Read More Rating: - A great field-guideI am not a experienced bird watcher. My husband and I moved into our house 5 years ago and we have a bunch of butterfly bushes and tree's and I am always seeing birds around our yard. One even nested in the butterfly bush just outside my kitchen window. This guide has wonderful photographs, loads of birds all categorized by type. My only issue with this guide is, as I am very inexperienced I really haven't figured out all the different types of birds, so I wish there was a way to have an index ... Read More |
