Birds of New York Field Guide

Has all the birds I was looking for! Super easy to find what birds you want! All together great buy.

This is a wonderful field guide for anyone that lives in the Northeast. The pictures are beautiful and the information is easy to understand. Stan Tekiela has made bird watching even better!

It's nice to have a book on the NYS birds. Makes it easy to find and identify.

We are having lots and lots of wild birds come to our deck to feed from our feeder. But we had no idea what they were, and we'd always wanted to learn their names. Just recently we purchased this book and the CD that goes with it, and yes, we are learning very quickly! Now we know the names of all the birds that come to our deck, and we know how they sing too! The book is very easy to use, as it devides the birds by their colors. It tells you the size, male/female differences, what they eat, where they migrate, and their habits and all that. The amount of info is just right for us. If it had more, we would have been overwhelmed. The CD is also excellent. Stan talks a little too fast, but he's clear enough. He explains different ways of the birds singing, chirping, calling, etc. Now we can recognize who's making all that noise in the morning around our house! We're also beginning to notice the different behaviors and how they act/react to certain things. It's just so much fun to observe them. He has done a lot of work to put the book and CD together. I really appreciate his effort. The pictures are pretty clear, most of the birds come with male and female photos, some with juveniles, winter/summer colors, etc. My husband is carrying his Zune around all the time to listen to the recording. Listening to it makes you feel like living in a forest. The recording is very clear too, and with Stan's explanation, very easy to recognize the voices of the birds. We're soooo glad that we got this book/CD!

This is a wonderful book. It has beautiful, full PAGE, color PHOTOGRAPHS of each bird in the book. How can someone argue with a photograph? Photographs are so much easier to use in identifying birds than drawings. Drawings are always subject to the interpretation of the artist who drew and painted them, and I have found that the artist's interpretation in other bird field guides often do NOT match what I observe in the field. This book also has the BEST layout of any bird field guide I have ever seen. The book is color coded and each color coded section represents the prominent colors of the bird. For example, a cardinal is in the "red" section of the book. A previous reviewer had noted that this book doesn't contain all species of birds that may visit New York. While this may be true, I have ALWAYS been able to find the birds that I have seen in the wild in this book. Furthermore, if additional birds were added, it is likely that the field guide would no longer be small and portable. The book also contains wonderful information for each bird, such as unusual habits, differences between the sexes, etc. There is also an excellent audio CD which accompanies this book. Although it is hard to find, this CD is spectacular! It follows the book exactly, and the 2nd edition of the book actually notes the CD and track number for each bird. The CD provides examples of each of the various sounds that the birds make, for example, the chickadee makes several different calls. There is also a narrator on the CD who gives a brief, but informative introduction, to the bird's calls/songs. If you live in New York and are a bird watcher, I highly recommend this book. I'll bet you'll find yourself using it more than any other field guide, I know I do!

Great little book for somebody like me, who just started trying to figure out what those birds are at my feeders. It's just enough info for me to take in and make me want more. So far, with great pleasure, I've found everything I've seen in western New York in this book. And I love the oddball facts.