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US Mall 1 - National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds--E: Eastern Region - Revised Edition
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List Price: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Knopf
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Binding: Turtleback
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.297
EAN: 9780679428527
ISBN: 0679428526
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 800
Publication Date: 1994-09-27
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: 1994-09-27
Studio: Knopf
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Summary: Natiopnal Audubon Society Birds
Comment: I have reviewed this book and I want to say it is more than I imagined, the illistrations are wonderful print very readable and the infomration is remarkable. I have many books regarding spiecies of birds this is the best I have yet to see on the whole of North America. The book is thorough, speific and covers many of the spieces I see here in Maine, Owls, Hawks, Falcons, and many birds of prey. The song birds like Finchs, Oriels, many others. I would recommend this book for the avide bird watcher and the beginners just a great book for us novices, facts on migration and nesting habitant and much more
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best bird book out there
Comment: I have owned this book (earlier ver) for YEARS, and recently purchased a copies for my sons for Christmas. This is the one you want!
Customer Rating: 
Summary: GOOD SECONDARY SOURCE
Comment: I got frustrated with an older edition of the Audubon and purchased the Nat Geo birding guides. I am a notice bird watcher and wanted something with more information about the birds. Nat Geo is good in that you have good sketches of the birds in all of their different stages; however, recently, I have gone back to using the Audubon as a secondary source. I still go to the old version of Audubon after I have made I.D. to see an actual picture of the bird. Sometimes that helps to make an accurate I.D., sometimes not. There is still nothing like a good photo of a bird to help in its I.D. I recently picked up the newer version of Audubon and was pleased to see more and better photos. I am purchasing the newer version for those photos. It is still a good investment for well-rounded bird watching.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Arguably the best photographic guide
Comment: I'm not going to argue the worth of photographs vs. illustrations. Everyone picks which works better for them, and that's that. I've tried both and prefer photos.
My wife and I use both the Audubon and Stokes guides. Were we forced to pick a favorite, I would go with the Audubon guide, she with the Stokes. Both have different advantages and issues.
The Audubon guide has a very flexible and convenient binding. The book is tall for its width and it lends itself nicely to thumbing through the pages. The organization of the photo section is by size within color within species type. Finding a male purple finch is as simple as flipping quickly to the handful of red, perching birds of the same approximate size, and zeroing in on the right entry.
That, however, leads to the first disadvantage - unless the male and female share overall coloration, they will be shown on separate pages and/or in separate sections. While that makes some sense, given the intent of the book's organization, it makes subsequently reading about the species less convenient.
That leads to the second disadvantage - photos and text are in separate halves of the book. Once you've identified a species from a photo, you have to look up the text page separately. It slows things down.
By using both the Stokes guide (which has photos and text on the same page) and the Audubon guide, we get the best of both worlds. The coverage of the two guides is slightly different, so we actually have more species at our fingertips than with either guide alone. When we get frustrated by one or the other, depending on what the search issue happens to be, there's the other, organized differently, which often solves the problem. Both guides are photographic, and we find the different photos often make or break a particular species identification.
The Stokes guide may be found here: Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Eastern Region (Stokes Field Guides).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Birds
Comment: Purchased two good "bird" books at the same time. This is the easiest of the two for finding birds, and I thoroughly recommend it.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Natiopnal Audubon Society Birds
Comment: I have reviewed this book and I want to say it is more than I imagined, the illistrations are wonderful print very readable and the infomration is remarkable. I have many books regarding spiecies of birds this is the best I have yet to see on the whole of North America. The book is thorough, speific and covers many of the spieces I see here in Maine, Owls, Hawks, Falcons, and many birds of prey. The song birds like Finchs, Oriels, many others. I would recommend this book for the avide bird watcher and the beginners just a great book for us novices, facts on migration and nesting habitant and much more
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best bird book out there
Comment: I have owned this book (earlier ver) for YEARS, and recently purchased a copies for my sons for Christmas. This is the one you want!
Customer Rating:
Summary: GOOD SECONDARY SOURCE
Comment: I got frustrated with an older edition of the Audubon and purchased the Nat Geo birding guides. I am a notice bird watcher and wanted something with more information about the birds. Nat Geo is good in that you have good sketches of the birds in all of their different stages; however, recently, I have gone back to using the Audubon as a secondary source. I still go to the old version of Audubon after I have made I.D. to see an actual picture of the bird. Sometimes that helps to make an accurate I.D., sometimes not. There is still nothing like a good photo of a bird to help in its I.D. I recently picked up the newer version of Audubon and was pleased to see more and better photos. I am purchasing the newer version for those photos. It is still a good investment for well-rounded bird watching.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Arguably the best photographic guide
Comment: I'm not going to argue the worth of photographs vs. illustrations. Everyone picks which works better for them, and that's that. I've tried both and prefer photos.
My wife and I use both the Audubon and Stokes guides. Were we forced to pick a favorite, I would go with the Audubon guide, she with the Stokes. Both have different advantages and issues.
The Audubon guide has a very flexible and convenient binding. The book is tall for its width and it lends itself nicely to thumbing through the pages. The organization of the photo section is by size within color within species type. Finding a male purple finch is as simple as flipping quickly to the handful of red, perching birds of the same approximate size, and zeroing in on the right entry.
That, however, leads to the first disadvantage - unless the male and female share overall coloration, they will be shown on separate pages and/or in separate sections. While that makes some sense, given the intent of the book's organization, it makes subsequently reading about the species less convenient.
That leads to the second disadvantage - photos and text are in separate halves of the book. Once you've identified a species from a photo, you have to look up the text page separately. It slows things down.
By using both the Stokes guide (which has photos and text on the same page) and the Audubon guide, we get the best of both worlds. The coverage of the two guides is slightly different, so we actually have more species at our fingertips than with either guide alone. When we get frustrated by one or the other, depending on what the search issue happens to be, there's the other, organized differently, which often solves the problem. Both guides are photographic, and we find the different photos often make or break a particular species identification.
The Stokes guide may be found here: Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Eastern Region (Stokes Field Guides).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Birds
Comment: Purchased two good "bird" books at the same time. This is the easiest of the two for finding birds, and I thoroughly recommend it.
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