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Title: Birds by John Sill, Peter C. Alden, Roger Tory Peterson ISBN: 0-618-30722-2 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 27 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.61 (28 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply the best bird book for the backyard bird lover in MI
Comment: This book is great. It gives you detailed pictures, silhoutte shapes and habitat areas. As a complete moron when it comes to bird identity, this book is very helpful.
Rating: 5
Summary: Have Binoculars and the Peterson Guide in Hand
Comment: This guide offers excellent photographic representations of every bird you can imagine in a well designed format. Accompaning each picture is a brief written decsription of the bird which include differentiating features from similiar birds. Each birds range is illustrated with maps at the back of the book. Searching through the pictures to make an identification can be tedious at times. However, I have never closed this book without finding my subject. On the trail or sitting in your backyard, you will find this book exceptionally helpful.
Rating: 5
Summary: the best I looked at
Comment: I looked at nine or ten bird books over the weekend before finally deciding on this one. I like it's compact size, durable cover and it's very complete index. The most important reason for my decision, however, is the fact that it shows pictures of both male and female birds where the female bird's plummage and head differ from that of the male. None of the other books I checked showed female birds or only showed them in very rare instances. I also like this book because it shows most birds in both standing or swimming positions and also in flight. There are also occasional drawings of chicks.
The text that accompanies the pictures is necessarily brief but covers: Latin and common names, description, food, range, migratory pattern, habitat, voice and similar species. Also included is a "Systematic Checklist" so you can keep a "life list" of all the birds you've seen. There is a guide to identifying birds by visual categories (swimmers, birds of prey, waders, perching birds, etc), size, tail and wing patterns. The last part of the book contains maps illustrating each bird's range which makes it easy to compare the habitat of, for example, an Olive-Sided Flycatcher with an Acadian Flycatcher.
Obviously this is a guidebook and not the type of book you sit down and read through, but I have found myself reading the entries for the often amusing "voice" sections. Here's the one for the Chestnut-Sided Warbler: "Song, similar to Yellow Warbler's; 'see see see see Miss Beech'er' or 'pleased pleased pleased to meet'cha;' penultimate note accented, last note dropping." Hey, someone who knows what "penultimate" really means!
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Title: Peterson First Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-central North America by Roger Tory Peterson ISBN: 0395906679 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Butterflies by Sarah Anne Hughes, Robert Michael Pyle, Roger Tory Peterson ISBN: 0618307230 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 27 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Peterson First Guide to Forests by John C. Kricher, Gordon Morrison, Roger Tory Peterson ISBN: 0395971977 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America by Roger Tory Peterson ISBN: 0395740460 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 04 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America by David Allen Sibley ISBN: 067945120X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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