The Stokes Essential Pocket Guide to the Birds of North America [Paperback]

A new landmark in nature guides: the most authoritative, beautiful, and useful national pocket guide to birds.

Pocket-size, brilliantly colorful, and easy to use, THE STOKES ESSENTIAL POCKET GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA contains everything you need to identify and enjoy birds in your backyard and beyond. Whether you're age 9 or 90, whether you're a novice or advanced birder, this book will help you identify birds quickly and accurately. It offers more than 580 stunning color photographs, coverage of more than 250 species, key identification clues, descriptions of songs and calls, notes on feeding and nesting behavior, advice on selecting bird feeders and binoculars, important behavioral information and key habitat preferences, and up-to-date range maps.

The culmination of many years of research, observation, and study, this book is factually, visually, and organizationally superior to any other beginner's guide on the market.Donald and Lillian Stokes are widely recognized as America's foremost authorities on birds and nature. Their books include the bestselling theStokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America,theStokes Field Guide to Birds, theStokes Beginner's Guide to Birds, theStokes Nature Guides, and theStokes Backyard Nature Books. They live in New Hampshire and Florida. With everything you need (and nothing you don't) toidentify more than 250 species of North American birds, this book is a work ofgenius. Only the Stokes could have created a guide so slim, yet so clear,concise, and welcoming. This is THE guide I'll be carrying into thefield! Sy Montgomery, author ofBirdologyPraise forTHE STOKES FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA:

This is unequivocally the most spectacular compendium of North American bird identification photographs ever assembled between two covers....Monumental... [It] significantly resets the bar for North AmerlĂ*