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Title: Stokes Field Guide to Birds : Eastern Region by Donald Stokes, Lillian ISBN: 0-316-81809-7 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 29 January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must have for any real birder.
Comment: This book provides bird watchers with an excellent guide to almost every bird found in the Eastern half of the US. The quick index and color tabs make finding the right page easy for most birders, and the introduction provides the information an inexperienced birder needs to learn how to use this book. The photographs are mostly excellent and show most of the important field marks. Immature, female, and non-breeding season plummage pictures are provided for many birds, and a wonderful description of the bird's plummage is always included. The maps, although sometimes inaccurate (as I've found with most guides) are easy to read. The addition of shading for migration routes would help, but could be confusing for some birders. The learning pages provide an excellent comparison of similar species; especially useful for sparrows and warblers. I would reccomend purchasing Peterson's guide in addition to this, but if you can only buy one, this is the one I'd buy. Keep in mind that every person is different, and will benifit from different organizations of species. Purchase the book you think will suit your preferences best.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very impressive and helpful.
Comment: Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Eastern Region is a very impressive and helpful bird identification tool. This happens to be a field guide that I feel confident using whenever I go birdwatching. I find that aspect to be the most important of any field guide--whether it's good enough to actually be trusted out in the field. This bird identification guide contains over 900 full color photographs. Also, all of the information pertaining to the particular species of bird is on the same page: this includes the color photograph, range map, and detailed text information (behavior, voice, feeding, nesting, and habitat for example). Having all of the information on one page is always very important. The book also contains quick alphabetical indexes inside the front and back covers that happen to be very useful for quick reference. The guide has a color tab index to bird groups, a quick guide to the most common backyard and feeder birds (good for beginners), and learning pages, too. I find the color photographs in this field guide to be clear, crisp, and very good. The guide also includes idenification symbols on the pages of particular birds that use feeders or birdhouses. A glossary of terms is included, too, along with a page that points out the names of the anatomical parts of a bird. Donald and Lillian Stokes have done an admirable job of putting this guide together. It's one of my favorite bird identification tools. I recommend it.
Rating: 4
Summary: A tried-and-true field guide
Comment: The Stokes Field Guide-Western Edition has become my pocket reference of choice in the field. I wore out my first copy from overuse, which is a high compliment to its usefulness (and binding sturdiness).
As a pocket guide and quick reference, you cannot beat Stokes' "bang for the buck." It offers most of the basics that most birders would need in the field:
* Quick color tab index
* Large photos (which usually capture indicative plumage)
* Good all-up glance at ID, feeding, nesting, and other relevant behavior
* Nice North American habitat guide that zooms in if the range is geographically smaller
* Habitat type info has been very helpful
Downsides are few, but:
1. I think the anatomical reference is incomplete, but for most purposes basically adequate.
2. The "quick reference to the most common birds" pages seem somewhat pointless because the species are so arbitrary.
3. The color quality in some photos aren't as indicative as I'd like, but you have to expect some inconsistencies due to the nature of photographs, habitat and lighting.
4. There really isn't a section on responsible birding, ethics, and avian conservation. Their conservation section consists of BBC and CBC census data only.
That said, I love this guide. Between the Stokes and Sibley ID guides used in tandem, most people won't need another field resource for visual field identification.
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Title: Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs : Eastern Region (Three compact discs and 64-page booklet) by Lang Elliot, Donald Stokes, Lillian Stokes ISBN: 1570424837 Publisher: Warner Adult Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.98 |
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Title: Stokes Birdfeeder Book : The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Understanding Your Feeder Birds by Donald Stokes, Lillian ISBN: 0316817333 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 30 October, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds : Eastern Region by Donald Stokes, Lillian ISBN: 0316818119 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: National Geographic Field Guide To The Birds Of North America, 4th Edition by National Geographic Society ISBN: 0792268776 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs:Western Region/Abridged by Donald & Lillian Stokes ISBN: 1570425884 Publisher: Warner Adult Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.98 |
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