The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America: Second Edition (Sibley Guides) - Softcover

Sibley, David Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307957918 ISBN 13: 9780307957917

Publisher: Knopf, 2016

COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED: From renowned birder, illustrator, and New York Times best selling author David Sibley, the most authoritative guide to the birds of the East, in a portable format that is perfect for the field.

Compact and comprehensive, this guide features 650 bird species, plus regional populations, found east of the Rocky Mountains. Entries include stunningly accurate illustrations--more than 4,601 in total--with descriptive captions pointing out the most important field marks. Each entry has been updated to include the most current information concerning frequency, nesting, behavior, food and feeding, voice description, and key identification features. Here too are more than 601 updated maps drawn from information contributed by 110 regional experts across the continent, and showing winter, summer, year-round, migration, and rare ranges.

This new and improved edition includes:

   ·   Updated habitat, description, behavior, and conservation text for each species account and all family pages.

   ·   New and revised illustrations of species and regional forms.

   ·   New design featuring species accounts in columns, allowing for better comparison and more illustrations and text. 

   ·   Current taxonomic order and up-to-date common names. 

   ·   All maps revised to reflect the most current range information. 

   ·   More species and rarities included.

From the Inside Flap:

The Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the new standard of excellence in bird identification guides, covering more than 810 North American birds in amazing detail. Now comes a new portable guide from David Sibley that every birder will want to carry into the field. Compact and comprehensive, this new guide features 650 bird species plus regional populations found east of the Rocky Mountains. Accounts include stunningly accurate illustrations?more than 4,200 in total?with descriptive caption text pointing out the most important field marks. Each entry contains new text concerning frequency, nesting, behavior, food and feeding, voice description, and key identification features. Accounts also include brand-new maps created from information contributed by 110 regional experts across the continent.

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America is an indispensable resource for all birders seeking an authoritative and portable guide to the birds of the East.

About the Author:

DAVID ALLEN SIBLEY is the author and illustrator of the series of successful guides to nature that bear his name, including the New York Times best seller The Sibley Guide to Birds. He has contributed art and articles to Smithsonian, Science, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Birding, BirdWatching, and North American Birds, and wrote and illustrated a syndicated column for The New York Times. He is the recipient of the Roger Tory Peterson Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Birding Association and the Linnaean Society of New York's Eisenmann Medal. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0307957918
• ISBN 13: 9780307957917
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 464