A Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Birding Challenges and How to Approach Them (Peterson Field Guides Series) - Softcover

Kaufman, Kenn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039597500X ISBN 13: 9780395975008

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999

Synopsis

Covering thirty-five of the most difficult groups of birds, from winter loons to confusing fall warblers, jaegers to chickadees, accipiters to flycatchers, this clearly written and beautifully illustrated field guide tells exactly how to solve the most challenging bird identification problems of North America.

About this title

Review

Stumped by seemingly indistinguishable immature gulls covering the beach? Wonder whether the accipiter raiding your feeder is a female sharp-shinned hawk or a male Cooper's hawk? Well-known birder and author Kenn Kaufman presents some of North America's most challenging bird-identification conundrums in this guide for the advanced birder. Each chapter covers a group of difficult-to-identify or similar-looking birds, with analyses, tips, and drawings to aid in positive identification. Improve your birding skills and add more species to your life list with this excellent resource.

About the Author

KENN KAUFMAN, originator of the Kaufman Field Guide series, is one of the world's foremost naturalists.   

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 039597500X
• ISBN 13: 9780395975008
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 299