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Paperback Eastern Birds: A Completely New Guide to All the Birds of Eastern and Central North America Book

ISBN: 0395911761

ISBN13: 9780395911761

Eastern Birds: A Completely New Guide to All the Birds of Eastern and Central North America

(Book #1 in the Peterson Field Guides Series)

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A new edition of the classic, best-selling field guide from Peterson Field Guides For decades, the Peterson Field Guide to Birdsof Eastern and Central North America has been a popular and trusted... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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4 ratings

Love it!

This little gem is the best. We live in Central Florida and we get all kinds of migratory birds at our birdbath. I just love. I bought my daughter one for her birthday too.

Great reference for beginners of bird watching

I went on a hike and the biologist leading the hike recommended this book. It's awesome. It has all information in the same section of the book. Rather than switching from information in the back and pictures in the front. Saves lots of time not switching back and forth.

A review for beginning birders (from one, gulp!)

When starting this hobby, there are an immense number of guides and (often expensive) resources to choose from.This book should be the first one you buy (well, if you are in the eastern half of the US).But it should not be the last. The Peterson Guide uses drawings (important -- NOT photos) to show you the typical features of the birds around you. Other great guides -- like the Audubon series -- use photos, but photos are harder for a beginner to use for a sure-fire identification. Or this beginner anyway...No bird in the field looks exactly like the lovely Peterson drawing, but no two bird photos are ever alike, either (even of the same bird). Use the Peterson to get to know the bird species around you, and maybe next buy a guide like the Audubon Society Field Guide (just because -- I dunno, they seem like a one-two punch to me)! It's great to go looking with both, but if I had to choose one, it would be Peterson.To learn more about birding in general, Sibley has a nice, shortish overview book called "Sibley's Birding Basics."I'm only getting started, but this is some advice about what's helped in beginning to learn all this wonderful stuff about the living world all 'round.

the best I looked at

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!

A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America, 4th Edition (Peterson Field Guide Series) Mentions in Our Blog

A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America, 4th Edition (Peterson Field Guide Series) in Audubon's America
Audubon's America
Published by Phillip Caprara • May 19, 2022
When John James Audubon completed his monumental work, The Birds of America, in 1838 every species he had depicted was still thought to be extant. In this regard, The Birds of America is critical for displaying the ornithological biodiversity during Audubon’s time. Yet during his research ventures, Audubon noticed that some species were, or had become, uncommon over a relatively short period. In honor of Endangered Species Day, let’s take a look at some of the birds of Audubon’s America, both those no longer with us, and those saved by the hard work of dedicated conservationists around the world.
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