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Jonathan Alderfer is a respected field ornithologist and one of North America's top birding artists. He is associate editor of the American Birding Association magazine, editor of the National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, and will be chief consultant for the next edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Overview Details Customer Reviews These handy, informative pocket-sized guides are an essential resource for the novice or experienced birder. Featuring 200 specimens each, the guides group birds by family rather than alphabetically, as approved by the American Ornithological Association. A quick-reference alphabetical guide on the inside cover provides an easy way to find a name quickly. Each entry has a vivid photograph showing the bird in its native habitat. On the facing page, a list of bulleted...

Jonathan Alderfer is a respected field ornithologist and one of North America's top birding artists. He is associate editor of the American Birding Association magazine, editor of the upcoming National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, and will be chief consultant for the next edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Complete, easy to read, and indestructible. All are paperback and indexed. Diagrams and color plates.

This book is the first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Brazil, featuring 187 beautifully drawn full-color plates with 1796 species accounts, including a distribution map for each species. The volume contains information on bird features, habitat, calls, and species distribution, and pays special attention to the species endemic to Brazil. Species names are given in both English and Portuguese, and frequently used terms are translated in an appendix. Oxford University Press, USA; October...

Brazil's bird diversity is one of the richest in the world. And yet there has never been a comprehensive field guide to this splendid and elusive avifauna. Until now. The carefully vetted text and images are the first to cover the full range of bird life in this vast and varied country. The more than 1,800 up-to-date accounts treat the Yellow-nosed Albatross to the Sombre Hummingbird, the Ash-throated Gnat-eater to the Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, Nighthawks and Jacamars to Motmots, Puffbirds,...

Illustrated by Takashi Taniguchi Translated by Desmond Allen Over 450 species of birds that have been seen near the Korean peninsula (North and South) including ones close to extinction are illustrated by world-renowned illustrator Takashi Taniguchi in this compact-size book. A variety of pictures is provided for easy identification including a detailed physical and voice description and habitat. The guide also contains a special map of Korea that not only indicates the habitats of different bird...

Open to anywhere in the 443 pages of birds and you'll find a color plate to the right, showing all the variants of color and plumage (including breeding and immature birds, when different). And on the left, a paragraph summary of the species, with a map of the bird's natural range. You can see at a glance how the great egret has black legs, differentiating it from the white great blue heron with its yellow legs, and how the cattle egret blushes red in the legs and bill while breeding. What...

Combines the Eastern and Western Birds field guides into one volume. All new maps, rewritten text to cover U.S. and Canada. Digital updates to Peterson's original painting, reflecting the latest knowledge of bird identification.

This is a wonderfully compact, easy-to-carry field guide, with color illustrations depicting every species. It is well-suited to those for whom size is paramount, because it will easily fit into a large pocket or small bag. In order to fit such a large avifauna into such a small book, the text is extremely concise, listing the English and Latin name, measurements, range and habitat, similar species, and field marks, alongside a color illustration and range map. There is no information about vocalizations...

Description In 2000 Houghton Mifflin first published the Kaufman Focus Guide to the Birds of North America. Critically acclaimed for its innovative design, the Kaufman guide began introducing a new generation to birding. In 2005, this new Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America is now the most up-to-date field guide, including dozens of changes by the American Ornithologists' Union in official names of birds; the addition of new species to reflect the latest scientific discoveries; and dozens...

A photographic guide to North American wild birds features more than 2,500 color photographs, coverage of 730 species, informative essays on bird behavior and identification, and hundreds of color maps based on the latest range information. Original. 100,000 first printing.

"The Mini Archive" series is a new series capturing the best of the best of ancient, rare, and significant volumes that have rarely or never before been reproduced or made available to the public. Each book in the series will focus on a single topic through abundant illustration and documentation. The topics will cover a wide range of subjects including art, architecture, fashion, heraldry, geography, navigation, medicine, and the natural world. Drawing from Georges-Louis Leclerc's 36 volume masterpiece...

• Accurate identification in one easy step, with all the information you need on a single page. • A compact alphabetical index inside the front and back covers for speedy reference. • An illustrated quick guide to the most common backyard and feeder birds. • Fast-access colored tabs keyed to each bird group. Color photographs, range map and detailed descriptions. • The most detailed and comprehensive descriptions available anywhere, with information on male, female, seasonal...