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State Birds and Flowers Coloring Book (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)0 comments Very nice pictures, with the state flower, allowing the use of brighter colors if the birds are more browns and greys. Many pages, this book is well worth the additional cost. |
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Stokes Beginner’s Guide to Birds: Eastern Region (Stokes Field Guide Series)Donald Stokes and Lillian Stokes 0 comments I am a neophyte birder and this book was perfect as a beginning guide in identifying and recognizing common birds in the western region. The other bird guides I have purchased (National Geographic and Audubon) were exceptional, but for a novice, they presented too much information and too many birds. This book struck a nice, comfortable compromise. The photos of each bird are excellent and provide you a good look [...] |
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The Birds of Costa Rica: A Field GuideRichard Garrigues and Robert Dean 0 comments This is a great new field guide to the birds of Costa Rica. Although not as comprehensive as the venerable Stiles & Skutch, it packs over 820 species into a pocket-sized guide. The illustrations by Robert Dean are beautifully rendered and seem quite accurately done (experts on CR birds can chime in to confirm or refute this assertion). I also love that the illustrations are large in size, instead of [...] |
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A Hummingbird in My House: The Story of Squeak0 comments This is a marvelous little book: both captivating narrative and very informative. I’ve been a great fan of hummingbirds since visiting the aviary at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tuscon. The author has done a marvelous job of telling us what its like to have a hummingbird in the house on a daily basis. And how lucky Squeak was to find Ms. Heidcamp–some things just seem to happen for a [...] |
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Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America0 comments Attention, all North American birders. The ultimate field guide has arrived–Ken Kaufman’s new Focus Guide to the Birds of North America! Not since Roger Tory Peterson’s landmark guides has one book combined all the essential elements a birder needs to quickly and accurately make field identifications. Previous guides have used either artists’ color plates or photographs; each has its pros and cons. But the Kaufman Guide’s use of computer-enhanced and [...] |
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A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil0 comments Basics: softcover, 187 color plates of all 1,800+ species in Brazil; short paragraph of minimal identification or description notes along with simple description of the voice; brief habitat notes; a 9-colored range map for each bird This book is one of very few books to cover all the birds of Brazil. The other books available today (Sep 2009) either have inferior artwork (Souza) or no identification text (Sigrist) or cover [...] |
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Owly Volume 1: The Way Home & The Bittersweet Summer0 comments It’s really hard to review “Owly”. The easiest thing to do would be to say “It’s awesome. Go read it. If you don’t like it, you have no soul.” That would be the quick way to discuss this book (and it would be accurate). But, Andy Runton deserves a little more. Because he’s accomplished something to admire: he’s created a truly all ages comic book, that is, you can be [...] |
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A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North AmericaRoger Tory Peterson and Virginia Marie Peterson 0 comments I may have finally found a relacement for my old Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Birds. My new Peterson guide — BIRDS OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH AMERICA — arrived today and is it beautiful. Best of all, it has a flexible cover and is light enough to carry into the field. I have dozens of bird books, but this little guide is by far the best for field work. [...] |
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The Shorebird GuideMichael O'Brien, Richard Crossley and Kevin Karlson 0 comments The Shorebird Guide is a different kind of bird guide. It tackles a traditionally difficult subject in a unique way that makes identifying Shorebirds seem (almost) easy. The book is split into two sections: the first is a color photographic guide to each species; the second is a text write-up of standard field-guide information as well as behavioral details and such for each species. Each species gets several pages of [...] |
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The Birds of Panama: A Field Guide (Zona Tropical Publication)Angehr, Dean and Robert, George R. 0 comments This new field guide to the birds of Panama follows the earlier book for Costa Rica in its pattern. Thus, hopes were high from the beginning when this book was announced. And the authors and publishers certainly kept their standards. Mostly, the illustrations from that Costa Rica book have been retained where appropriate, but they have often been enlarged, reduced , sometimes mirrored or tilted to some extent. So finally, [...] |
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