Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (762 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0618514694 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Good, useful reference This rates 5 stars for my purposes. It identifies birds, as it is supposed to do. Maybe I would rate it lower if I knew more about birds, and compared this books with 5 similar books with the same stated purpose.Other books have much more information, but would one want to carry around a much larger, heavier book? This book is for a novice. Others should get a small book like this to carry around, and a more thorough book to keep at home.. A must for every birdwatcher! Amy This book is simply fantastic! Color illustrations and text really help with common identification problems. Should be required reading for every birder. Even if you have been birding for years you will learn something new, and yet this book is super friendly to begining birders.. Excellent book for Beginner and Intermediate Birders This is an excellent book for sorting out and identifying those tricky birds that are difficult to distinguish from one another. It is aimed at beginners and intermediates, but still provides helpful points for advanced birders. Julie Zickafoose does an beautiful job at the illustrations, and Bill Thompson clearly outlines the differences between similar species. This is a good book to own if you are having troubles with identifications.
In clear, encouraging prose, Thompson addresses dozens of other identification problems, reminding readers that in greater challenge lies greater reward. And if "separating long-billed dowitcher from short-billed dowitcher is one of the single most difficult identification problems in North America," at least figuring out the difference between horned grebes and eared grebes is a little easier. He also offers readers the "Top 20 Rules of the Bird Identification Game," which include reminders to look at the bird more carefully than the bird book, to take notes and to trust your ins
KENN KAUFMAN, originator of the Kaufman Field Guide series, is one of the world's foremost naturalists.
Combining clear, easy-to-understand text with beautiful illustrations that show key field marks, Identify Yourself is the solution to identifying many of North America's hard-to-distinguish birds. Written by the experts at Bird Watcher's Digest, Identify Yourself gives beginning and intermediate bird watchers a helping hand with some of the most confounding identification challenges -- birds that are commonly encountered but difficult to tell apart