A Guide to Field Identification Birds of North America

I ordered this book specifically to replace one which was lost. The one I received was not this book. It was a much smaller book. I guess I will try again... hopefully the book in the description and which is pictured will be the one I actually get this time.

The book itself is nice, but I ordered 978-1582380902. Will try again.

I was sent an earlier edition that had three blue birds on the cover (which I already had), not the one I ordered that had three eagles on the cover. Very disappointing.

Th color pictures very helpfull in identifying most birds and Descriptions very good.

There are bigger and more expensive bird guides but none pack as much information into such a portable, easy to use, inexpensive book as this. I've used it as a casual birder for several years. Among my favorite features are the taxonomic indicators (blue squares and circles indicating Order, Family and Sub Family or Genus), little bits of natural history (that some advanced guides assume you already know) and comparison silhouettes. I recommend this book to anyone wanting a first bird guide.

Tired of flipping from index to photo or illustration to description of one bird? This field guide gives you everything on pages facing one another. They also have a sonogram for bird calls and the best and most easily identifiable art work of any field guide I've ever seen.

The Golden Guide to Field Indentifcation of Birds of North America is a handy, not to mention effective, guide to the birds. Accidentals, rarities, stragglers, and casuals are all covered, along with the common birds. This guide includes full color illustrations of birds were and how they are most often spotted, whether gliding over the ocean or perching in dense underbrush, as well as winter, summer, eclipse, immature, chick, juvenile, adult, male, female, breeding, non-breeding, molting, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd winter plumages, if need be. Any bird spotted can quickly be indentified quickly and easily with this guide.