 | A Birder's Guide to Michigan by Allen T. Chartier and Jerry Ziarno
Buy used from: $112.55 Most of the best areas to go birding in Michigan are described and mapped here. A wealth of informaton about migration and sightings around the state is included.
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| The Atlas of Breeding Birds of Michigan by Richard Brewer
Buy used from: $14.95 Important information and maps by township for the entire state on breeding birds of Michigan.
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 | The North American Bird Guide (Helm Field Guides) by David Sibley
Buy new: $41.20 / Used from: $86.70 Probably the best overall field guide for North American birds. Sibley has a guide that is more concise for Eastern birds only.
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 | A Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Birding Challenges and How to Approach Them (Peterson Field Guides Series) by Kenn Kaufman
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $1.26 A good little guide to help sort out some of the difficulties in identification of birds like dowitchers and other shorebirds, accipiters,gulls and flycatchers.
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| The Birds of Michigan by James Granlund
Buy used from: $16.96 A beautifully illustrated book with information on status of Michigan birds, records of sightings across the state and natural history notes by some of Michigan's best birders and ornithologists.
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 | A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America by Roger Tory Peterson
Buy new: $12.97 / Used from: $3.00 I personally think this is the best guide for beginners but it has great plates for ducks in flight that are very helpful for waterfowl watching at Lake Michigan or Whitefish Point.
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 | Michigan Atlas & Gazetteer by Delorme Mapping Company
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $11.35 This map book is often referred to by birders that have found a rarity ("the Say's Phoebe site is found on page 23 of Delorme on the corner of McWhirter and Overman Rd.").
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 | Gulls: Of North America, Europe, and Asia by Klaus Malling Olsen
Buy used from: $174.98 If you spend your winters in Michigan and want to keep birding you'll have to get into gulls. This is an amazing book with color photos, in depth text, range maps, identification information and illustrations.
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 | Gulls, Second Edition: A Guide to Identification (Natural World) by P. J. Grant
Buy used from: $20.00 Another great gull book for preparation of identification of Sabine's Gulls. Illustrations all in black and white.
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 | A Field Guide to Warblers of North America (Peterson Field Guide Series) by Kimball Garrett
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $0.98 The highlight of the birding year for many is the return of the warblers in May.
This is the resource that best adds to Sibley.
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 | More Birding by Ear Eastern and Central North America: A Guide to Bird-song Identification (Peterson Field Guides) by Robert W. Lawson
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $4.93 Yellow-billed or Black-billed Cuckoo call, Willow or Alder Flycatcher. This program will get you to the point of better identification by call of birds with confusingly similar calls (Worm-eating Warbler, Chipping Sparrow, Pine Warbler etc.)
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