by Roger Tory Peterson
This combination of the Peterson guides to Eastern and Western North America has been extensively updated and enhanced. These changes, and the wonderful art, create a guide that is worth checking out.
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For the most part, the new Peterson guide uses the same plates that Roger Tory Peterson had prepared for his Eastern and Western regional guides. However, some significant changes have been made. Some new species have been added, most due to taxonomic splits, but others because of new records. Conversely, some species have been [...]
As you can see, the new Peterson guide (in the middle) is significantly larger than the last edition of the eastern regional guide. It even approaches the “large Sibley” in size. Naturally, since this new book covers all the species in North America, you would expect it to be thicker. But the trim size has [...]
August of 2008 marks the centennial of the birth of Roger Tory Peterson, one of the 20th century’s most influential people. To commemorate the event, Houghton Mifflin is publishing a new version of Peterson’s field guide to birds, a book whose importance to birding and conservation cannot be overstated. This volume combines the previously separate [...]
Publishers seem determined to test the maxim that you can’t have too many field guides. But who am I kidding? If these have new content, then I’ll be getting them!
Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America
Ted Floyd
May 27, 2008
Details are available from ABA Sales. This sounds very intriguing, especially the CD with 576 [...]
December 9, 2006
A Field Guide to Warblers of North America (Peterson Guide)
Reviews/Books/Advanced ID, Reviews/Books/Family Guidesby Jon Dunn and Kimball Garrett
Not a perfect field guide, but it is the best one available for North American warblers.
