The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America | David Allen Sibley

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America | David Allen Sibley | The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America

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	The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America David Allen Sibley Knopf, 2003 - 472 pages average customer review:based on 53 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Small, Compact and Portable

New guides to bird identification are being published all the time but unfortunately there is a trend for more and more information getting packed into larger and larger guides (especially for the guides to various Neotropical regions). Such guides are essentially manuals rather than "field guides" and are typically left in a car or at home. Plus they strain the budget. That's why I especially like this little field guide. It's small, compact and portable--and relatively cheap--yet it includes the bare essentials required for accurately identifying birds in the field. I require students in my undergraduate Vertebrate Biology course to purchase the book and to use it in the field (northern California) to identify birds. I challenge my students to see who can first identify each new bird we see, so it's fun watching them compete with each other to name a given bird. And they appreciate the small size and light weight of the guide. Thank you David Sibley and Alfred A. Knopf for providing a bona fide "field guide."

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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America

If you have a bird feeder near your house and maybe a bird bath, too, you're more than casually interested in birds and this book is for you. I use it to satisfy my curiosity by identifying the unusual birds that occasionally show up in my urban back yard, such as the small hawk that hunts all those little brown birds around my bird feeder. I also take it along on drives through the countryside, along with a good pair of binoculars. Seeing an interesting bird can be a good excuse to stop driving for a bit and look at something more interesting than other cars on a highway.

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Great Bird Book

Already had the Eastern version and liked it very much. I'm no expert, but I think these books are setup really nice for identifying birds.

Hands down THE BEST birders guide !!!

This book is very detailed and in depth ....and the pictures are accurate... best bird guide on the market!!

quick and easy