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The New Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Western Region

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By Donald Stokes

By Lillian Q. Stokes

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On Sale
Mar 26, 2013
Page Count
592 pages
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13
9780316213929

Price

$21.99

Price

$28.99 CAD

Format

Trade Paperback

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The culmination of many years of research, observation, and study, the The New Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Western Region is factually, visually, and organizationally superior to any other photographic field guide available.

This easy-to-use guide features 636 North American bird species and more than 2,000 stunning color photographs. And yet it’s portable enough to fit in your pocket! The guide includes:

The newest scientific and common names and phylogenetic order special help for identifying birds in flight through important clues of behavior, plumage, and shape detailed descriptions of songs and calls important behavioral information and key habitat preferences The newest range maps, detailing species’ winter, summer, year-round ranges, and migration routes.

Whether you are a novice or experienced birder, this new Stokes guide will take your birding to the next level.

Genre:

  • Nonfiction
  • Nature
  • Birds & Birdwatching
  • Birdwatching Guides

Donald and Lillian Stokes are widely recognized as America's foremost authorities on birds and nature. Their books include the bestselling Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America, the Stokes Field Guide to Birds, the Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds, the Stokes Nature Guides, and the Stokes Backyard Nature Books. They live in New Hampshire and Florida.

  • Praise for The 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. ...this monumental volume offers birders the most up-to-date information on field identification of North American birds currently available. ...[it] significantly resets the bar for North America field guides."
    Massachusetts Audubon Society
  • "This is by far the most comprehensive North American field guide I have in my possession. There are so many nice modern features that make this field guide extremely useful and user-friendly. I could go on and on. "
    Idaho Birding Blog
  • "[I]f one is going to own a photographic field guide for the birds of North America, the Stokes now have the most complete book on the market...you can't go wrong with this guide."
    10,000 Birds Blog
  • "This is a glorious book put together with loving attention to detail...a superb, good-value field guide."
    BBC Wildlife
  • "The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America is an easy-to-use, superbly designed field guide that is detailed enough to be useful for birders of all experience levels. Highly recommended."
    About.com Birding Guide

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Donald Stokes

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Donald and Lillian Stokes are widely recognized as America’s foremost authorities on birds and nature. Their books include the bestselling Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America, the Stokes Field Guide to Birds, the Stokes Beginner’s Guide to Birds, the Stokes Nature Guides, and the Stokes Backyard Nature Books. They live in New Hampshire and Florida.

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Lillian Q. Stokes

About the Author

Lillian Stokes and her husband Donald are widely recognized as America’s foremost authorities on birds and nature. Their books include the bestselling Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America, the Stokes Field Guide to Birds, the Stokes Beginner’s Guide to Birds, the Stokes Nature Guides, and the Stokes Backyard Nature Books. Lillian lives in New Hampshire. 

 

Matthew A. Young is is the President and Founder of the Finch Research Network (FiRN). For ten years he was a Regional Editor of the Kingbird, the state ornithological journal in New York, was an Adjunct Professor in Environmental Studies at SUNY-Cortland, and currently teaches Intro to Birding and Nature Observation classes for Cornell University and is the Board Chair at The Wetland Trust. He lives in New York.

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