Product Description

The first comprehensive field guide to North American warblers describes all 60 species in detail, from field marks and vocalizations to mating habits and preferred habitats. The 32 color paintings use the unique Peterson Identification System to indicate what distinguishes one bird from another. 141 color photographs show various plumages for each species, and 60 large color maps show species' ranges.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #800146 in Books
• Published on: 1997-08-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 672 pages

From Amazon.com
The Peterson Field Guides series has added another weapon to its considerable arsenal of bird-identification guidebooks: a field guide devoted solely to the warblers of North America. Warblers, those small, sprightly, colorful songbirds that move north through the continent for the breeding season, have always delighted and simultaneously frustrated birders around the country. This field guide won't cure any cases of "warbler neck"--a condition brought on by extensive peering into the treetops--but it will help you to better decide just which species has your craned-neck attention. With color plates (including the "Peterson System" of arrows indicating important field marks), photographs, distribution maps, and textual information on species description, habitat, behavior, song, plumage variations, and migration patterns, this is an essential resource for birders.

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This first complete field guide to one of the most challenging and interesting groups of birds in North America describes in detail each of the 60 warbler species, from its field marks to its mating habits. 100 color photos. 32 color paintings. 50 drawings. 60 color range maps.

About the Author
Jon Dunn is an editorial consultant for Birding magazine and chief consultant for the National Geographic Society's Field Guide to the Birds of North America.

Kimball Garrett is a contributor for the following Houghton Mifflin Company Title: A Field Guide to Warblers of North America

Cynthia House is a contributor for the following Houghton Mifflin Company Title: A Field Guide to Warblers of North America

Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world"'s greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation, as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars, and the Peterson Field Guides® are credited with helping to set the stage for the environmental movement.

Larry O. Rosche is a contributor for the following Houghton Mifflin Company Title: A Field Guide to Warblers of North America

Thomas R. Schultz has specialized in painting avian subjects for over 20 years. He contributed illustrations for the National Geographic Society's Field Guide to the Birds of North America.

Sue A. Tackett is a contributor for the following Houghton Mifflin Company Title: A Field Guide to Warblers of North America