The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl by Richard Crossley, Paul Baicich, and Jessie Barry From Crossley Books: The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds, published in 2011, revolutionized birding and books by providing the first real-life approach to ID. The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl, the fourth of these user-friendly guides, is for both hunters and birders. Unlike […]
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A free online chat with Richard Crossley and Dominic Couzens, the co-authors of The Crossley ID Guide: Britain and Ireland, will take place on November 21st from 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm GMT (2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST). Richard and Dominic will share stories from their own adventures along with tips on finding, identifying […]
June 23, 2013
The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors
Reviews, Books, Advanced ID, Reviews, Books, Family Guidesby Richard Crossley, Jerry Liguori, and Brian Sullivan
An innovative and fun way to learn raptor identification.
by Richard Crossley
An amazing photographic guide that presents the birds of eastern North America in a unique and lifelike manner.
I was first introduced to Richard Crossley’s striking photographic bird plates nearly two years ago. A post on 10,000 Birds linked to Crossley’s gallery and asked if this could become North America’s best identification guide. A year later, Princeton University Press announced that they would publish The Crossley ID Guide. The sample plates were unique […]
A while back, I wrote about a promising looking field guide that Richard Crossley was working on. Since then, Princeton University Press has announced that they will publish The Crossley ID Guide. The guide isn’t coming out until next year, but some details have already been released, and now I really can’t wait to get […]
In the May 2009 issue of Birding, the magazine of the American Birding Association, Alan Contreras opines: “Right now, we are overwhelmed with guides for beginners and specialized family references, many of which are good, but we lack truly advanced field guides…” Among other suggestions, he would like to see a field guide that shows […]
by Michael O'Brien, Richard Crossley, and Kevin Karlson
This revolutionary guide has set the new standard for bird identification books. Absolutely essential!
