Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges - Softcover

Bill Thompson III; Julie Zickefoose; Kenn Kaufman; The Bird Watcher's Digest

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9780618514694: Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0618514694 ISBN 13: 9780618514694
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005

Synopsis

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. 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..

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About the Author

Bill Thompson III is the editor of Bird Watcher s Digest, a bimonthly magazine with 70,000 subscribers. Julie Zickefoose is a widely published natural history writer and bird artist. Bill and Julie live on an eighty-acre nature sanctuary with their two children.

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You've spotted a cute little ringed plover down by the shore-but wait! Is it a semipalmated plover? A piping plover? A Wilson's plover? Don't panic, says Thompson, the editor of Bird Watcher's Digest and the author of Bird Watching for Dummies: it's easier than you think. Sections on back color, leg color, bill shape and bill color plus excellent color illustrations by Julie Zickefoose (to whom Thompson is married) will straighten you out in no time. 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. In clear, encouraging prose, Thompson addresses dozens of other identification problems, reminding readers that in greater challenge lies greater reward. 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 instincts.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0618514694
ISBN 13 
9780618514694
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
392
Rating
  • 4.15 out of 5 stars
    80 ratings by Goodreads