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The Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the new standard of excellence in bird identification guides, covering more than 810 North American birds in amazing detail. Now comes a new portable guide from David Sibley that every birder will want to carry into the field. Compact and comprehensive, this new guide features 650 bird species plus regional populations found east of the Rocky Mountains. Accounts include stunningly accurate illustrations—more than 4,200 in total—with descriptive caption text pointing...
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Providing birders the convenience of portability, Sibley's newest volume breaks down the information in The Sibley Guide to Birds into specific regions (The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America will be published the same month). The guide includes much of the basic information in the Guide to Birds, such as the parts of a bird and general color-coded maps, but focuses most of its attention on birds who make their home east of the Rocky Mountains, such as the Double-crested Cormorant...
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This digital document is an article from Wilson Bulletin, published by Wilson Ornithological Society on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 817 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: The Sibley Field Guide To Birds of Eastern North America.(Book Review) Author: Sara R. Morris Publication...
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Random House Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
Features: Compact and comprehensive, this new guide features 650 bird species plus regional populations found east of the Rocky MountainsAccounts include stunningly accurate illustrationsmore than 4,200 in totalwith descriptive caption text pointing out the most important field marksEach entry contains new text concerning frequency, nesting, behavior, food and feeding, voice description, and key identification features
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The classic Peterson field guide has been designed in a larger format especially for those who prefer an at-a-glance guide for use in the field. Color plates. Updated color maps. This is the large format edition.
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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
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Overview Details Author Info Take trusted National Geographic along on your birding adventures. This essential guide features in-depth information on every bird officially recorded in eastern North America. Illustrated accounts of their plumages and life stages, and hundreds of color-coded range maps. A full-color visual index and annotated artwork of birds’ key physical features makes the content visually accessible. Thumb-tabs help readers find information fast. Durable covers stand up to outdoor...
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A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
CHIMNEY SWIFT Chaetura pelagica Common 5–51?2" (12–14 cm) Like a cigar with wings. A blackish swallowlike bird with long, slightly curved, stiff wings and stubby tail. It appears to beat its wings not in unison but alternately (actually this is an illusion); effect is more batlike, unlike skimming of swallows. They seem to fairly twinkle, gliding between spurts, holding wings bowed in a crescent. Voice: Loud, rapid, ticking or twittering notes. Range: S. Canada to Gulf of Mexico. Winters...
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Picture of The Sibley Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
Birding is the fastest growing wildlife-related activity in the U.S., and even conservative estimates put the current number of U.S. birders at 50 million. According to the New York Times, some authorities predict that by 2050 there will be more than 100 million and the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America will be the essential reference for field identification and the cornerstone of any birder's library. This is the ultimate, indispensable bird field guide comprehensive...
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Paperback, The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
The publication, in 2000 and 2001, of the huge and hugely acclaimed Sibley Guide to Birds and Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior gave birders encyclopedic sources of information about all the avian species they might see in North America. Now David Allen Sibley has prepared two guides specifically designed for use in the field - and eminently portable. Each has essential information and thousands of illustrations culled from the first two books, plus many entirely new illustrations and newly drawn maps.In each guide: -- Complete coverage: 550 Eastern species, 650 Western-- More than 4,000 Sibley paintings, with at least six views of each species Clear and detailed bird descriptions, augmented with information on habitat and behavior (absent from most field guides)-- All-new maps vetted by 90 experts who provided the most up-to-date and accurate range information ever available in a field guide-- Range: Each volume covers a larger area especially along the dividing line between Eastern and Western ...
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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America
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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America (Hardcover)
The Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the new standard of excellence in bird identification guides, covering more than 810 North American birds in amazing detail. Now comes a new portable guide from David Sibley that every birder will want to carry into the field. Compact and comprehensive, this new guide features 703 bird species plus regional populations found west of the Rocky Mountains. Accounts include stunningly accurate illustrations—more than 4,600 in total—with descriptive caption...
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CHIMNEY SWIFT Chaetura pelagica Common 5–51?2" (12–14 cm) Like a cigar with wings. A blackish swallowlike bird with long, slightly curved, stiff wings and stubby tail. It appears to beat its wings not in unison but alternately (actually this is an illusion); effect is more batlike, unlike skimming of swallows. They seem to fairly twinkle, gliding between spurts, holding wings bowed in a crescent. Voice: Loud, rapid, ticking or twittering notes. Range: S. Canada to Gulf of Mexico. Winters...
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Unique features set these guides apart from the competition and promise to win a new generation of readers: A full-color visual index, printed on the inside covers, makes the content accessible visually a real boon to beginning and intermediate birders. Annotated artwork highlights birds’ key physical features, making identification easier. Thumb-tabs help readers find information fast. Durable covers stand up to outdoor use, with integrated quick-reference flaps that double as place-markers. Field...
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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America (Paperback)
Description An up-to-date birding handbook provides identification tips, three thousand full-color illustrations, 560 locator and range maps, information on behavior and nesting, new plumage and species classification data, and other valuable facts about more than six hundred North American birds found east of the Rocky Mountains. Original. 75,000 first printing.
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Excerpt: CHIMNEY SWIFT Chaetura pelagicaCommon 5–51?2" (12–14 cm) Like a cigar with wings. A blackish swallow-like bird with long, slightly curved, stiff wings and stubby tail. It appears to beat its wings not in unison but alternately (actually this is an illusion); effect is more batlike, unlike skimming of swallows. They seem to fairly twinkle, gliding between spurts, holding wings bowed in a crescent. Voice: Loud, rapid, ticking or twittering notes. Range: S. Canada to Gulf of Mexico. Winters...
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A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America: Peterson Field Guide
Excerpt: CHIMNEY SWIFT Chaetura pelagicaCommon 5–51?2" (12–14 cm) Like a cigar with wings. A blackish swallow-like bird with long, slightly curved, stiff wings and stubby tail. It appears to beat its wings not in unison but alternately (actually this is an illusion); effect is more batlike, unlike skimming of swallows. They seem to fairly twinkle, gliding between spurts, holding wings bowed in a crescent. Voice: Loud, rapid, ticking or twittering notes. Range: S. Canada to Gulf of Mexico. Winters...
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Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America, by Peterson, 5th Edition
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The Young Birder's Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Peterson Field Guides)
A new Peterson Field Guide to 200 of the most common and interesting birds in eastern North America, written especially for kids ages eight to twelve. Increasingly popular among all ages, birding is an especially popular family friendly activity. This fun and lively guide provides just the right amount of information for kids who have an interest in birds and want to learn more. Each of the 200 species is described on a full page packed with information and written in an engaging style."Wow!" bursts contain...
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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America Books - Outdoors and Nature
Books. National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America
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A Field Guide To The Birds : A Completely New Guide To All The Birds Of Eastern And Central North America
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Explore the Expanding Peterson Line. Leave your reading glasses behind. Now Roger Tory Peterson's classic Field Guide to Eastern Birds has been reissued in a larger format specially produced for those who don't want to take their reading glasses into the field. Peterson's treasured illustrations have been reproduced in beautiful color. Species descriptions include only the most important identification elements — size, voice, and habitat — in large, easy-to-read type. Color range maps, conveniently...
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Highlighting 200 birds of Eastern North AmericaGive your budding naturalist 200 reasons to get outside and take part in one of today's fastest growing hobbies. The engaging format of the Young Birder's Guide was developed with input from a class of 11-year-olds. Each page teaches students the important elements of successful birding—Look, Listen, Remember, and Find.Color photographs for identifying birds.Illustrations by Julie Zickefoose highlighting distinctive behaviors or characteristics.Range...
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Description: Explore the Expanding Peterson Line. Leave your reading glasses behind. Now Roger Tory Peterson's classic Field Guide to Eastern Birds has been reissued in a larger format specially produced for those who don't want to take their reading glasses into the field. Peterson's treasured illustrations have been reproduced in beautiful color. Species descriptions include only the most important identification elements -- size, voice, and habitat -- in large, easy-to-read type. Color range maps...
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