Peterson Reference Guide To Sparrows Of North America (Peterson Reference Guides) - Hardcover

Wright, Rick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0547973160 ISBN 13: 9780547973166

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2019

Synopsis

Sparrows are as complicated as they are common. This is an essential guide to identifying 76 kinds, along with a fascinating history of human interactions with them.
 
What exactly is a sparrow? All birders, and many non-birders, have essentially the same mental image of a pelican, a duck, or a flamingo, and a guide dedicated to waxwings or kingfishers would need nothing more than a sketch and a single sentence to satisfactorily identify its subject. Sparrows are harder to pin down. This book covers the birds of the family Passerellidae, which includes towhees, juncos, and dozens of other not necessarily small and not necessarily brown birds. 
  
Birds have a human history, too, beginning with their significance to native cultures and continuing through their discovery by science, their taxonomic fortunes and misfortunes, and their prospects for survival in a world with ever less space for wild creatures. This book includes not just facts and measurements, but stories of the birds' entanglement with human history.  

About this title

From the Author:

The Online Supplement at tinyurl.com/WrightSparrows provides
- a brief errata sheet- links to additional information on each species' geographic distribution, taxonomic history, conservation status, habitat, behavior, voice, and physical appearance.

From the Back Cover:

This essential guide is lavishly illustrated with more than 300 color photos. It is the definitive work on the sparrows, from the American Arctic south to central Mexico.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0547973160
• ISBN 13: 9780547973166
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448