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Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges
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Product Description
Written by the experts at Bird Watcher's Digest, Identify Yourself gives beginning and intermediate bird watchers a helping hand with some of the most confounding identification challenges -- birds that are commonly encountered but difficult to tell apart. Combining clear, easy-to-understand text with beautiful illustrations that show key field marks, Identify Yourself is the solution to identifying many of North America's hard-to-distinguish birds..
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #72398 in Books
- Published on: 2005-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 416 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
You've spotted a cute little ringed plover down by the shore-but wait! Is it a semipalmated plover? A piping plover? A Wilson's plover? Don't panic, says Thompson, the editor of Bird Watcher's Digest and the author of Bird Watching for Dummies: it's easier than you think. Sections on back color, leg color, bill shape and bill color plus excellent color illustrations by Julie Zickefoose (to whom Thompson is married) will straighten you out in no time. And if "separating long-billed dowitcher from short-billed dowitcher is one of the single most difficult identification problems in North America," at least figuring out the difference between horned grebes and eared grebes is a little easier. In clear, encouraging prose, Thompson addresses dozens of other identification problems, reminding readers that in greater challenge lies greater reward. He also offers readers the "Top 20 Rules of the Bird Identification Game," which include reminders to look at the bird more carefully than the bird book, to take notes and to trust your instincts.
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About the Author
Kenn Kaufman is a legend among birders. A field editor for AUDUBON and a regular contributor to every major birding magazine, he is the youngest person ever to receive the Ludlow Griscom Award, the highest honor of the American Birding Association. His natural history pursuits have taken him to all seven continents, but he has made a special study of North American birds. His books include KINGBIRD HIGHWAY, LIVES OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS, the PETERSON FIELD GUIDE TO ADVANCED BIRDING, in addition to originating the KAUFMAN FIELD GUIDE series, which includes books on birds, butterflies, mammals, and insects. He resides in Rocky Ridge, Ohio.
Bill Thompson III is the editor of Bird Watcher's Digest, a bimonthly magazine with 70,000 subscribers and the author of Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges. He lives with his wife, author and illustrator Julie Zickefoose and their two children on eighty birdy acres in Ohio.
Julie Zickefoose began her career as a field biologist for the Nature
Conservancy. She became a magazine and book illustrator, then
began to illustrate her own stories, gleaned from experiences with
wild birds and animals. Her monthly commentaries bring a glimpse
of Appalachia to NPR's All Things Considered. Bird Watcher's Digest
has published more than forty of her articles and seventeen cover
paintings since 1986.
Customer Reviews
A great reference for birders!
I purchased this last spring to help with migrants moving through my area. It helped with Warblers, Thrushes and Vireos a lot! In those brief seconds when the bird is in view, now I know what to look for to aid in identification, I love it and I'm buying a copy for a birding friend. Recommended for the advanced beginner.
Very educational !!!!!
As a bird fan, I really wanted to get this to help me learn as much as possible about feathered friends, and it sure does deliver! One disappointment however, it left out some species that summer here in the last frontier!!Other than that, this is a great book! Good for yourself,or as a gift for that birder you know!!!
A Book for all Birders
I discovered this book by accident and found it very useful. I am a relative novice at birding and this book has really helped make me a better birder. The Top 20 Rules of the Bird Identification Game make this book well worth the price. But it isn't just for beginners. I bought a copy for a friend who is a very accomplished birder and she has found it very useful in identifying gulls. For me the sparrows are difficult and this book has made it easier. I can actually identify many of those LBJ's (little brown jobs).
