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 enlarge | Author: David Allen Sibley
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
Buy Used: $9.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 10217
Media: Turtleback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 472
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 0679451218
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.097
EAN: 9780679451211
ASIN: 0679451218
Publication Date: April 29, 2003
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Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: USED COPY, COVER AND EDGES WORN, SOME PAGES CONTAIN HIGHLIGHTING AND NOTES
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 The BEST field guide May 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I own every book on bird identification that I have been able to find for birds of the western United States. This is by far the one I use the most. I've purchased it for several of my birding friends, keep a copy at my home site and one in my truck. One of the points that makes Sibley's guide so useful is that there are no actual photographs of birds. He has drawings that give the "more common" colorations of each species. Photographs seldom yield such a wide spectrum of coloration. I use other bird guides because they have good information, but Sibley's guide is the one most easy to use, and the most practical for really knowing the bird you are identifying.
Excellent Reference Book - great for students and bird enthusiasts May 3, 2008
I purchased this book for my Biology class and it has been more than helpful. It shows each bird in various poses, stages of life and shows the differences between the two sexes. Very informative and easy to navigate!
 a very useful field guide April 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a compact field guide derived from David Allen Sibley's highly regarded _The Sibley Guide to Birds_. This may be heresy, but in this instance the derivative surpasses the original, and that is no mean feat.
Most notably, it is compact enough to carry into the field, and that's where birders try to sort through as many diagnostic puzzles as possible. Most species accounts include fewer visual representations than the corresponding accounts found in the Guide to Birds, but the illustrations selected are usually quite sufficient.
Remarkably, the text associated with many species accounts is more informative than the information found in the larger guide: more information about habitat preferences, behavior, and description.
I have noticed some separation from the binding near the middle of each of the two field guides I have (eastern and western) but in neither instance is it really a problem. This isn't going to be my primary North American guide (I'll still rely on the National Geographic field guide for that purpose) but if I carry two guides into the field this will often be the second.
Excellent book April 28, 2008
This is an excellent field guide. The illustrations are well done, and to have several illustrations for each bird is a must for indentification.
As an avid birdwatcher, I would recommend this book over the others available for the beginner bird watcher.
Sibley is the standard April 18, 2008
The Sibley field guides are the current standards of birding in North America. Nothing else needs to be said. If you're going to buy one birding field guide - this is the one.
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