Specialty Field Guides to the Birds - Hawk, Warbler, Advanced Birding, Birder's Handbook

Specialty Field Guides

The Birder's Handbook

This is the most complete and authoritative reference book about the birds of North America-up to date and in field-guide format.
The Birder's Handbook is the first of its kind: a portable library of fascinating information not included in your identification guide. For each of the 646 species of birds that breed in North America, The Birder's Handbook will tell you at a glance:

Where the bird nests, and which sex(es) build(s) the nest
How many eggs the bird lays, what they look like, which parent incubates and for how long, and how the young are cared for
Food preferences and foraging habits.

You will also find information about display and mating, wintering, conservation status, and much more. In addition, The Birder's Handbook contains some 250 short essays covering all aspects of avian natural history.


*Price $18.00*

Peterson Warbler Guide Peterson Warblers

The first comprehenxive field guide to North American warblers describes all 60 species in detail, from field marks and vocalizations to mating habits and preferred habitats. The 32 color paintings use the unique Peterson Identification system to indicate what distinguishes one bird from another. 141 color photographs show various plumages for each species, and 60 large color maps show species' ranges.


*Price $20.00*

Peterson Field Guide to Hawks of North America

All 39 of North American hawks and other diurnal raptors, including eagles, falcons, and vultures
Color paintings and photographs of each species in various color morphs, plumages, and postures
Detailed descriptions of each species, including field marks, plumages (usual and unusual), flight modes, characteristic behaviors, voice, status and distribution, similar species, subspecies, measurements, and even the origin of the name
Range maps showing where each species can be found.


*Price $18.00*

Peterson Advanced Birding

This is the field guide that begins where the other guides leave off - that tells exactly how to solve the most challenging bird identification problems of North America. Although it's called a guide to advanced birding, it is so clearly written and beautifully illustrated that even a beginner can use it.
It covers the thirty-five most difficult groups of birds, from winter loons to confusing fall warblers, jaegers to chickadees, accipiters to flycatchers. It explains concisely and precisely what the problems are in each group; then it systematically shows just how to solve them - how to tell one species from another, one plumage from another, an adult bird from a juvenile, a three-year-old gull from a two-year-old gull.


*Price $18.00*

Peterson Feeder Birds of Eastern North America

Large print guide for fast, easy identification of all the birds that frequent feeders, with the most commonly seen birds first.
Descriptions (including favorite foods), range maps, and are on facing pages.
A brand-new introduction covering essential bird-feeding topics: types of feeders and where to put them, bird-baths, kinds of food and when to feed, what to plant to attract birds, and how to solve problems with squirrels as well as cats and other predators
A quick-reference list telling which foods attract which species
A feeder checklist, with a place to check off birds as they are seen
Features Roger Tory Peterson's unique system which shows exactly what features to look for.


*Price $9.95*

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