All About Backyard Birds Family Pocket Guide: Eastern and Central North America

Powell, Hugh; Brian Scott Sockin, and Laura Erickson, Editors

ISBN 10: 1943645043 / ISBN 13: 9781943645046

Published by Cornell Lab Publishing Group, 2017

About this Item

Eastern/Central and Western North American versions each provide 120 of the most popular species in each region, filled with beautiful hand illustrations by Pedro Fernandes, charts and range maps, and other easy tools that make All About Backyard Birds more approachable than other birding books to beginner and novice birders. All About Backyard Birds includes our new FREE downloadable Bird QR book companion app, which you can use to tap-and-listen to calls and songs for the birds you see in the book, and tap-and-learn for additional content.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: All About Backyard Birds Family Pocket Guide: Eastern and Central North America
• Publisher: Cornell Lab Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1943645043
• ISBN 13: 9781943645046
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Fernandes, All About Backyard Birds Pedro
• Condition: New
• Weight: 12 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

A series of beginner-to-novice birding books, All About Backyard Birds is based on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s number one birding website allaboutbirds.org, which has had more than 21 million unique users to date.

All About Backyard Birds delivers best-in-class content and proven user-friendly formats. Each regional version―eastern/central North America and western North America―provides 120 of the most popular species and is filled with beautiful illustrations by Pedro Fernandes. With charts, maps, and other bird identification tools, All About Backyard Birds offers beginner birders the ideal way to start birding.

All About Backyard Birds also includes a tutorial for MERLIN®, an interactive GPS-based bird identification multimedia app (available in iTunes and Android stores and already used by more than 1 million birders), plus a FREE Bird QR book companion app. The app empowers users with a tap-to-listen birdsong function and gives more information about special topics throughout the book.

As with all Cornell Lab Publishing Group books, a portion of the net proceeds from the sale of All About Backyard Birds goes directly to the Cornell Lab to support projects, including children’s educational and community programs.

About the Author

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a world leader in the study, appreciation, and conservation of birds. Its hallmarks are scientific excellence and technological innovation to advance the understanding of nature and to engage people of all ages in learning about birds and protecting the planet.

Founded in 1915, the Cornell Lab is a nonprofit organization with a vibrant community that includes 400,000 citizen-science participants from all walks of life and 14 million bird enthusiasts of all ages who connect online at AllAboutBirds.org

Pedro Fernandes is a freelance wildlife illustrator. Born in Lisbon, Pedro earned a degree in Earth Sciences, and later studied Science Illustration at the University of California, Santa Cruz and at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. As a child, Pedro wanted to be a condor when he grew up. Having failed at that, he settled for becoming a wildlife illustrator. He loves watching birds, drawing birds, and going places to see birds―his pretext to explore the natural world and an endless source of amazement and discovery. Pedro lives in Morocco.