The Sibley Guide to Birds | David Allen Sibley

The Sibley Guide to Birds | David Allen Sibley | Sibley Guide

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	The Sibley Guide to Birds David Allen Sibley Knopf, 2000 - 544 pages average customer review:based on 121 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Outstanding

Sibley's book is as much a work of art as a first class field guide. The plates are rich in detail and provide accurate identification aides, proper colors and black and white profiles for identifying birds in the air. A very useful book as well as enjoyable for its art work. I keep a copy on my desk at work and travel with another copy close by.

Sibley Guide

This is the best bird book of its kind on the market. While it is a little too large to be as handy as Peterson's for a field guide (unless you have very large pockets), it is indispensable for the serious birder. The convenience of having all of the information about a particular bird on one page cannot be overstated, and the illustrations are not only accurate but -- like Audubon's -- are works of art.

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The Sibley Guide ot Birds

I am a "convert" from Golden Nature Guides/Zim to Petersen to now
Sibley. Page layout good, larger and more images. Identified with this guide last week a Northern Harrier going thru my back yard even catching a sparrow on the wing. Book heavier.
Ron Schramm

Birds of My Region

I am using this product as a study guide for a field elective class in college. It has supplied me with great pictures and information for almost every bird I have had to study so far. I love the quizzing feature the most. It has been the highest effective learning tool I've used with this DVD.
I think this is a great product. I reccomend it.

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Best Used as a Supplemental Bird Guide

I have used bird guides for 11 years for both professional and personal use and was given this book to compliment my other bird guide books. Sibley has very pretty illustrations in this book. He is really into showing the different morphs and regional variations for each species.

I think the Sibley guide is good for advanced birders who enjoy knowing all the variations that a species can have. Sibley also shows many different angles of the birds. I do like Sibley's introductory page for each bird group that has each species in that group together on the same page. This is handy for comparisons.

I think this book would not be as good for a beginning birder because Sibley does not do a good job showing the basic characteristics necessary to ID the bird. For example, for the eastern phoebe, he shows the juvenile with a yellow belly and the adult with a white belly. According to the National Geographic bird guide, adult (and maybe all) eastern phoebes have yellow bellies only in the fall. If I only had the Sibley guide, I would assume that juveniles have yellow bellies and adults have white bellies. Sibley does not write anything that helps to distinguish the juvenile from the adult - your only option is to compare the two pictures.

If you are a beginning birder I strongly recommend the Peterson Guide to birds. It points out key identification features in the illustration and in the text, as well as other useful clues to aid in identification. The National Geographic guide is very good as well.

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