"--Rick Bonney, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology "If Roger Tory Peterson's Field Guide to the Birds was birdwatching's Rosetta Stone, this book is birding's Magna Carta.
Discusses basic aspects of ornithology, including migration, bird physiology and behavior, flight, and song, as well as field identification, banding, bird grouping, birding localities, and other topics.
The Birdwatchers Companion
In this approach to ornithology, self-confessed bad birdwatcher Simon Barnes gives readers the confidence and motivation to get pleasure from one of the simplest, cheapest hobbies there are - watching birds, without letting birdwatching get ...
This pocket-sized hardcover journal is designed for bird enthusiast.
Thirty full-page illustrations of U.S. and Canadian species include an oriole perched in a tree and a bald eagle diving for fish. Captions identify where species nest.
If you are a would-be birdwatcher but don't know where to start, this book is for you
How to be a bad birdwatcher shows why birdwatching is not the preserve of twitchers, but one of the simplest, cheapest and most rewarding pastimes around.
... Louis Agassiz Fuertes (widely deemed to be Audubon's heir as the dean of bird portraitists); Allan Brooks, ... For excellent surveys of current natural history art by living artists, see catalogues from the Lee Yawkey Woodson Art ...
Few books are more intimidating than a conventional field guide. There are simply too many birds in them. This book introduces the reader to Britain's most obvious birds. But it does more than that: it also explains them.