by Richard Crossley
An amazing photographic guide that presents the birds of eastern North America in a unique and lifelike manner.
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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!
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