Birds of Illinois

This is a very descriptive and colorful book. It has helped me identify lots of local birds in Illinois. I have seen other books, and this one is very good. It is fairly compact, and it is easy to find the information you need. Buy this one first if you live in Illinois.

My husband and I are amateur birders and this was our first field guide for local birds. It is nice to have a guide without photographs and one with photographs. This one has drawings that have often helped me differentiate between similar species, like Baltimore and Orchard orioles. This book also has a wonderful suggestion section for places to find the bird that you are looking for and when to look for it. This stays in our birding bag all year long!

This book is a quick guide to backyard birds. Colorful pictures of both male and female for recognizability.

Great book. Includes full color art with a nice synopsis for each bird as well as an illustration for its habitat. I've been able to identify many birds with it. Highly recomended!

If you want to identify birds in your Illinois backyard, or when you're hiking in the woods, on a picnic at the zoo, enjoying the flowers at the Botanic Gardens, or basking in the shade of a tree at an Arboretum, then this is the book for you. It won't confuse you with birds that don't belong in Illinois. This is THE field guide for Illinois bird watcher, no matter what the expertise. This guide is arranged by habitat and color coded for quick identification. Each bird has a full color beautiful drawing, interesting facts about the bird, including how to identify it in the field, as well as when during the year you're likely to see it. Sheryl DeVore, an award-winning environmental journalist and editor, writes with technical and poetic ease. Steve Bailey, an ornithologist with the Illinois Natural History Survey is one of the top experts on Illinois breeding birds; his maps make it easy to identify each bird as breeder, summer visitor, year-round resident, or migrator.Get this book if you live in Illinois and love to watch birds!