The Birdwatcher’s Companion to North American Birdlife By: Christopher W. Leahy
Retail Price: $ 39.50 you can always remove it later.
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Binding: hardcover |
The Birdwatcher’s Companion to North American Birdlife By: Christopher W. Leahy
Retail Price: $ 39.50 you can always remove it later.
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Binding: hardcover |
“Like any good reference work, The Birdwatcher's Companion is thorough and authoritative, its thousands of entries running the gamut from physiology and taxonomy to conservation and birder culture. But unlike most references, it is actually a delight to read; throughout, the writing is lively and engaging. Keep a copy on your desk by day, and curl up to another at bedtime.”
—Ted Floyd, Editor, Birding
Now back in print, this quintessential A–Z guide is a book that anyone interested in birds will want to have close at hand. First published more than twenty years ago, this highly respected reference volume has been fully revised and updated. It captures the fundamental details as well as the immense fascination of North American birds life in a style that is authoritative, yet fresh, witty, and eminently readable.
Both a practical handbook for amateurs and a handy reference for seasoned birders, it provides accounts of the basic elements of bird life, as well as a wealth of easy-to-access information on such subjects as bird physiology and anatomy, terms and jargon, name definitions and etymology, and otnithological groupings.
Readers will discover everything from the color of a Dipper’s eggs (glossy, white, and unmarked) to the number of species of woodpeckers in the world (216). They will also find more than one hundred of the best-known and most colorful colloquial names for birds, alphabetized and briefly defined. Collective nouns relating to bird life—for example, “an exaltation of larks”—are included in the “Nouns of Assemblage” section. Biographical sketches of individuals responsible for describing or naming a significant number of North American species are also included, as well as handsome and accurate halftone illustrations by Gordon Morrison. And for those who want to go beyond reading about their favorite birds and take to the great outdoors, the book offers still more useful information: descriptive entries on a selection of the best-known birdwatching spots of North America.