Field Guide to the Birds of North AmericaNow in its fourth edition, the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America is the ultimate birder’s field guide. Sturdy, portable, and easy-to-use, it features the most complete information available on every bird species known to North America. This revised edition features 250 completely updated range maps, new plumage and species classification information, specially commissioned full-color illustrations, and a superb new index that allows birders in the field to quickly identify a species. The National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Fourth Edition will continue to be a bestseller among the fastest-growing sector in the U.S. travel market—the nearly 25 million people who travel each year specifically to observe wild birds. |
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Birds of North America
User Review - Overstock.comMy husband and I enjoy watching backyard and forest birds and wanted a book to help identify our birds. This is a wonderful guide tho perhaps a bit too much on the education and not as much as we like ... Read full review
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This book has given me the most information about the birds in our area over any other book. I have given 4 of them for gifts and the recipients have all agreed. Read full review
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Adult male Alaska Aleutians American Black Duck band belly bill birds blackish breast Breeding adult breeding plumage brown buff buffy California Calls include casual chestnut coastal color coniferous crown dark darker distinct distinguished Dowitcher duller ear patch eastern edge eyebrow Fairly common fall first-winter flanks flight Florida Flycatcher forehead grayer grayish Gull habitats head islands Juve lacks Lawrence Island legs loud Male's mandible migration molt morph mottled nape neck nests North America northern numbers outer tail feathers overall Pacific Golden-Plover pale gray paler Phalarope plumage primaries race Range rare reddish rufous rump Salton Sea Sandpiper shorter shows sides slightly smaller Song southern Sparrow spot spring streaked stripe subspecies summer Texas Thayer's Gull throat Titmouse trill tundra Uncommon underparts undertail coverts upperparts usually variable Vireo Warbler western Western Gull whistled whitish wing bars wing linings wingbeats winter adult winter plumage woodlands Woodpecker yellow
Bibliographic information
| Title | Field Guide to the Birds of North America National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America |
| Contributor | National Geographic Society (U.S.) |
| Edition | 4, illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | National Geographic Society, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0792268776, 9780792268772 |
| Length | 480 pages |
| Subjects | › Nature / Birdwatching Guides |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |