The Stokes Essential Pocket Guide To The Birds Of North America
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| Author | : Donald Stokes |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2014-10-14 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780316010511 |
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.
| Author | : Lillian Q. Stokes |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2008-11-16 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 031604847X |
Attract amazing hummingbirds to your backyard! With this comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide, you'll find it easy to attract these tiny jewel-like birds to your own yard. With this comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide, you'll find it easy to attract these tiny, jewel-like birds to your own yard. The Stokes Hummingbird Book provides all the information you need to bring hummingbirds up close, identify them, and understand their fascinating and varied behavior. The book includes: Range maps and full-color photographs to help you identify and locate hummingbirds Information on how to select the proper feeders, what to use in them, when to put them up, and when to take them down Advice on what flowers to plant to attract hummingbirds in your part of the country Amazing facts about hummingbirds, such as how fast they fly and how much they weigh Guidelines for photographing hummingbirds Complete information on hummingbird behavior, including flight displays, breeding habits, and feeding A special section on attracting orioles, with photographs and behavior guides for each of the eight species found in North America A resource list for hummingbird supplies
| Author | : Donald Stokes |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Total Pages | : 816 |
| Release | : 2010-10-25 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780316010504 |
The culmination of many years of research, observation, and study, the new STOKES FIELD GUIDE includes more species, more photographs, and more useful identification information than any other photographic field guide. The guide features 853 North American bird species and more than 3,400 stunning color photographs. And yet it's portable enough to fit in your pocket! The photographs cover all significant plumages, including male, female, summer, winter, immature, morphs, important subspecies, and birds in flight. Also included * 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; * key habitat preferences of each species; and * the newest range maps, detailing species' winter, summer, year-round ranges, and migration routes. * a special downloadable CD with more than 600 bird sounds (from Lang Elliott and Kevin Colver) and 150 photographs: the calls and songs of 150 common North American species.
| Author | : Laura Erickson |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1426210442 |
Presents information about 160 North American bird species, including facts about physical features, voice, habitat, food, and a map indicating the regions in which each species can be found.
| Author | : Donald Stokes |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013-03-26 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780316213936 |
The culmination of many years of research, observation, and study, the The New Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Eastern Region is factually, visually, and organizationally superior to any other photographic field guide available. This easy-to-use guide features 545 North American bird species and more than 2,000 stunning color photographs. And yet it's portable enough to fit in your pocket! The photographs cover all significant plumages, including male, female, summer, winter, immature, morphs, important subspecies, and birds in flight. 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.
| Author | : Jon Lloyd Dunn |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 676 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780395783214 |
Describes sixty species of North American warblers.
| Author | : Sheri Williamson |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780618024964 |
Covering 31 North American species, with more than 250 color photos and 33 maps, this is the most comprehensive field guide to hummingbirds. Introductory chapters cover the natural history of hummingbirds, ways to attract and feed them, and major hot spots in the United States and Canada for observing these fascinating birds. The 31 color plates illustrate 28 species, 7 hybrid combinations, 3 forms of albinism, and 4 species of sphinx moths often mistaken for hummingbirds. Species accounts provide in-depth information on plumage, molt, songs and calls, wing sounds, similar species, behavior, habitat, distribution, taxonomy, and conservation concerns. Detailed range maps show breeding, non-breeding, and year-round distribution, migration routes, and records outside expected areas of occurrence.
| Author | : Donald Stokes |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2002-04-29 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780316816953 |
A pocket-size, brilliantly colorful, simple-to-use guide tohummingbirds, containing dozens of full-color photographs that enable readers of all ages to identify the most common species; range maps; tips on attracting hummingbirds, information on habitat needs, life cycle, food preferences; and much more.
| Author | : Edward S. Brinkley |
| Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 527 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9781402738746 |
A photographic field guide of North American birds provides color photographs of birds in their natural habitat and discusses their physical characteristics, habitats, behaviors, songs, and migration routes.
| Author | : Jonathan Alderfer |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780792255628 |
Designed to fit in a backpack or pocket for easy access, each of these handy and popular bird field guides comprises 272 pages and features about 175 birds organized by family as approved by the American Ornithological Union. Standard features include: Locator Map at the front listing regional birding hotspots; Introduction by an expert on where to find the state's top birds; How-To-Use Section with general tips on birding and advice on making the most of the guide; 125 Easy-Access Individual Entries providing a photograph of the bird in its habitat, recognition clues, specific details on behavior, habitat, and local sites, plus a special "Field Note" with artwork for extra help in tricky identifications; Alphabetical Index with life list; and Color-coded Index. Pennsylvania offers a winning variety of city and country birds. See the bright-colored, vocal Yellow-billed Cuckoo; the migratory Snow Goose; the stunning Red-Tailed Hawk; the olive Acadian Flycatcher, and more.
