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"Amazingly compact and beautifully presented.... Most of the artwork is stunning ... extraordinary plates.... They make paging through the book a pleasure". -- Bird Watcher's Digest"A field-calibrated, fieldworthy field guide....(the author) has the design sense to project in a book ... The process that birders have been using all along". -- New Jersey Audubon Society

"In the 'must-buy' category....A copy should be on every birder's bookshelf....An excellent companion in the field". -- The Bluebird

"Makes positive identification quick and easy". --

REVIEW:I learned about lots of new birds. Mostly the different kinds that I run across where I might travel or be. This is a great for few reasons;

1, It's broken down into catagory by bird type: ex: waterfowl, land, flight, etc.
2. It's filled with beautiful, colorful portraits of each of the birds. Great for the more the visually-learning type.
3. There are little maps of the United States for each section that displays darken areas for the bird population.
4. At the back of the book is a check-list for each bird in the book.

So there you have it. It's worth looking at, and if you enjoy learning about wildlife, or like to just learn about birds. Then I recommend this. - from Amzon