The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America: Second Edition

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America: Second Edition

by David Allen Sibley
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America: Second Edition

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America: Second Edition

by David Allen Sibley

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Overview

Now completely revised and updated, the authoritative guide to over 700 birds of the American West from renowned birder, illustrator, and New York Times bestselling author David Sibley

Compact and comprehensive, this guide features 715 bird species, plus regional populations, found west of the Rocky Mountains. Entries include stunningly accurate illustrations—more than 5,046 in total—with descriptive captions pointing out the most important field marks. Each entry also  includes the most current information concerning frequency, nesting, behavior, food and feeding, voice description, and key identification features. 

This 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.
 
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America contains more than 652 updated maps drawn from information contributed by 110 regional experts across the continent, and shows winter, summer, year-round, migration, and rare ranges.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307957924
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 03/29/2016
Series: Sibley Guides
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 504
Sales rank: 65,787
Product dimensions: 4.60(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.30(d)

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.
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