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Down & Dirty Birding:From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
Joey Slinger
Combining useful facts with humorous advice, a witty guide to birding covers how to watch birds without leaving home, collecting the proper equipment, identifying birds, and understanding bird behavior.
Paperback, 239 pages
Fireside
ISBN:068480459X
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Where the Birds Are:The 100 Best Birdwatching Spots in North America
Robert M. Brown, Sheila Buff, Tim Gallagher, Kristi Streiffert
All the information you need to plan exciting and rewarding birding trips. State by state, this guide lists 100 of the best sites in the US and Canada to spot a wide variety of birds.
Hardcover: 352 pages
DK Publishing
ISBN:0789471698
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100 Birds and How They Got Their Names:
Diana Wells, Lauren Jarrett (Illustrator)
Birds and bird imagery are integral parts of our language and culture. With her remarkable ability to dig up curious and captivating facts, Diana Wells hatches a treat for active birders and armchair enthusiasts alike.
Hardcover: 320 pages
Algonquin Books
ISBN:156512281X
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A Field Guide to Advanced Birding:Birding Challenges and How to Approach Them
Kenn Kaufman
Well-known birder and author Kenn Kaufman presents some of North America's most challenging bird-identification conundrums in this guide for the advanced birder. Each chapter covers a group of difficult-to-identify or similar-looking birds, with analyses, tips, and drawings to aid in positive identification.
Paperback
Houghton Mifflin Co
ISBN:039597500X
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Birding for Beginners:
Sheila Buff
Making this guide uniquely valuable for the novice are chapters on viewing bird behaviors such as feeding, flight, feather care, nesting, and migration so the birder understands not just what kind of bird it is, but what the bird is doing.
The Lyons Press
ISBN:1558212094
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The Traveling Birder:20 Five-Star Birding Vacations
Clive E. Goodwin, Roger Tory Peterson
Goodwin profiles 20 birding ``hot spots,'' 16 of which can be found in North America and the rest in Spain, Britain, Kenya, and Trinidad. He provides descriptions of such birding meccas as southern Arizona, as well as lesser known locations like Reelfoot Lake (Tennessee). Several local hotels and restaurants are listed for each entry, as well as helpful information tourists should heed regarding a particular area.
Doubleday
ISBN:0385411464
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Stokes Guide to Bird Behavior: Volume 1:
Donald W. Stokes, James Fenwick Lansdowne (Illustrator)
Focuses on 25 common North American species, from black-capped chickadees to song sparrows. Contains information about visual and auditory displays, courtship and territorial behavior, seasonal movement, and more.
Little Brown & Co
ISBN:0316817252
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Stokes Guide to Bird Behavior: Volume 2:
Donald W. Stokes (Photographer), Lillian Q. Stokes
Focuses on 25 common North American species, from northern cardinals to spotted sandpipers. Contains information about visual and auditory displays, courtship and territorial behavior, seasonal movement, and more.
Little Brown & Co
ISBN:0316817295
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Stokes Guide to Bird Behavior: Volume 3:
Donald W. Stokes, Lillian Q. Stokes
Focuses on 25 common North American species. Contains information about visual and auditory displays, courtship and territorial behavior, seasonal movement, and more.
Little Bown & Co
ISBN:0316817171
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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America: Third Edition:
National Geographic Society
This field guide of choice for serious birders combines accurate illustrations with useful maps and text in an easily portable format. Textual information includes notes on identification, behavior, habitat, and song; the illustrations depict individual species in varying plumages.
National Geographic Society
ISBN:0792274512
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Peterson Field Guide to Western Birds:
Roger Tory Peterson (Illustrator)
"The Birderﾒs Bible" for more than 60 years, Roger Tory Petersonﾒs classic Field Guide to Western Birds includes all species found in North America west of the 100th meridian and north of Mexico. Featuring the unique Peterson Identification System, Western Birds contains 165 full-color paintings that show more than 1,000 birds from 700 species.
Houghton Mifflin Co
ISBN:0395911737
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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America:
Roger Tory Peterson (Illustrator)
"The Birderﾒs Bible" for more than 60 years, featuring the unique Peterson Identification System. Contains full-color paintings that show more than 1,000 birds from 700 species.
Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:039526619X
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds:Eastern Region
John Bull, John Farrand Jr., Lori Hogan
Covering 508 bird species found east of the Rocky Mountains, the revised second edition takes into account changes in taxonomy and uses improved photography. At the heart of the guide is a set of 646 well-made color photographs whose subjects are organized by easily discerned characteristics.
Knopf
ISBN:0679428526
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds : Western Region:
Miklos D. F. Udvardy, John Farrand Jr.
A favorite of birdwatchers (especially those who prefer photographs to illustrations), this field guide, revised for 2000, accounts for the 544 bird species that live in the region west of the Great Plains. The clearly printed color photographs capture birds at rest and in flight; preceded by black-and-white silhouettes, the plates are organized by visually based, intuitive categories.
Knopf
ISBN:0679428518
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The Sibley Guide to Birds:
David Allen Sibley
More than 10 years in the making, David Sibley's Guide to Birds is a monumental achievement. The beautiful watercolor illustrations (6,600, covering 810 species in North America) and clear, descriptive text place Sibley and his work squarely in the tradition of John James Audubon and Roger Tory Peterson.
Knopf
ISBN:0679451226
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