A New Reference for Birders
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Posted by Rosemary Drisdelle Jun 10, 2008 |
For the wild bird enthusiast and collector of bird identification books, there’s a new field guide, authored by Ted Floyd, editor of Birding Magazine. More than five hundred pages long, the Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America has attractive and useful features:
- General information about birds and birding
- Short essays providing general information about groups of similar birds
- Descriptions of more than seven hundred North American bird species, most with colour maps showing ranges
- Two thousand colour photographs of North American bird species
- Almost six hundred digital (MP3 file) birdsongs on a DVD, with a printed key and accompanying images
- A glossary of terms from ornithology
- A birding checklist
- Two indexes: a quick index and a detailed one.
Twenty-first century North America is home to a growing number of people interested in birds, and technology provides them with birding resources like never before. It’s easy to see that, with its basic information about birds and birding and its clever use of the highly portable MP3 player, Ted Floyds book is well aimed at this group. Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America is available in bookstores now.
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