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Compact and yet filled with information, this portable encyclopedia of North American bird behavior is a complement to field guides. Learn more about the species you see in the field, and--when in doubt--use this handy reference as another tool for identification.
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Susan Roney Drennan Editor, American Birds A dizzyingly competent, extraordinarily readable, impeccably comprehensive and marvelously educational feat! Certainly mandatory reading for everyone even remotely curious about the birds they watch.
Mercedes S. Foster Research Zoologist and Curator of Birds, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The Birder's Handbook is a gold mine...that will greatly enhance the joys of watching birds.
David S. Wilcove Ecologist, The Wilderness Society Field guides will help you to recognize birds. This book will help you to understand them....This book should be required reading for all birders, naturalists, and conservationists.
Thomas E. Lovejoy Smithsonian Institution Anyone who owns a field guide to the identification of North American birds will want The Birder's Handbook as a companion volume.
Mercedes S. Foster Research Zoologist and Curator of Birds, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The Birder's Handbook is a gold mine...that will greatly enhance the joys of watching birds.
David S. Wilcove Ecologist, The Wilderness Society Field guides will help you to recognize birds. This book will help you to understand them....This book should be required reading for all birders, naturalists, and conservationists.
Thomas E. Lovejoy Smithsonian Institution Anyone who owns a field guide to the identification of North American birds will want The Birder's Handbook as a companion volume.
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BREEDING: n lakes, ponds. 1 brood. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
BREEDING: n lakes, ponds. 1 brood. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Complementary Guide on Bird Biology,
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This review is from: Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural Histroy of North American Birds (Paperback)
Ok, this is NOT a field guide as the name would suggest. It is a reference book of bird biology. It includes information such as habitat preferences, nesting substrate, clutch size, diet, courtship rituals, which sex sits on the nest, etc. There are also short essays intersperced throughout the guide about various topics of ornithological interest. Not for the passive birder. Useful for researchers and serious birders.
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This review is from: Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural Histroy of North American Birds (Paperback)
This is one of the more informative books on the subject of bird watching. It has limited potential as a field guide as there are very few pictures and it is just too bulky to practicly take on an outing, but the real beauty of this book is the wealth of information it holds. It gives very detailed essays from many souces on everything from the extinct Labrador Duck to a autobiography of Thomas Nuttall to the differince between Precocial and Altrical young.BUY THIS BOOK YOU WON'T BE DISSAPOINTED!
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This review is from: Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural Histroy of North American Birds (Paperback)
Great reference book, though NOT portable. Because this book came out in 1988, it needs updating: bird name changes have occured and there is more information from research to add to the wealth of information it already contains. Birder's Handbook uses various editions of field guides as reference points, that is, it points to particular pages of those field guides for a bird illustration or photo as well as range maps. And because those field guides have been updated in the intervening years, the page numbers are not true.I look forward to another edition of this book!
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