Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Eastern Region (Stokes Field Guides)
Each with more than 900 brilliant full-color photographs-the easiest-to-use and most comprehensive field guides to North American birds. Visually, factually, and organizationally superior to any other field guide, the bestselling Stokes Field Guide to Birds draws on more than twenty years of Donald and Lillian Stokes's experience as experts on American birds and wildlife. Each regional edition features: More than 900 high-resolution full-color identification photographs. All the identification information on a single page- color photographs, range map, and detailed description. No more fumbling to match photos with text! An illustrated Quick Guide to the most common backyard and feeder birds. Convenient colored tabs keyed to each bird group. For fast reference-a compact alphabetical index inside the front and back covers. Concise and comprehensive text, with information on habitat; plumage variation; feeding, nesting, and mating behavior; bird feeder proclivity; and-for the first time in any guide-population trends and conservation status.
Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Eastern Region (Stokes Field Guides) Accessories
 Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern Region
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds: Eastern Region (Stokes Field Guide Series)
Stokes Birdfeeder Book : The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Understanding Your Feeder Birds
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Fifth Edition
A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds--E: Eastern Region - Revised Edition
Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region
The Sibley Guide to Birds
Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Eastern Region (Stokes Field Guides) Reviews
However, the book was in good condition just like the website said it was. I was disappointed it took approx. 9 days to arrive because I had wanted to give it for a birthday gift. The book was fine - just what I ordered.
The best aspect of this guide is pictures and text that appear on the same page. The Audubon guide, by the way, has its organization issues, particularly the separation of the text from the pictures section.
Not exactly useful, and I can't imagine what the authors were thinking.
There is interesting commentary on some species groupings, but unfortunately not on all. There is a useful quick guide inside the back cover for common species.
My wife and I find that we need both this guide and the Audubon guide for complete coverage and a reasonable variation in pictures, which is helpful when trying to identify species that closely resemble one another. Great guide, with good information, but the species ordering within each color-coded section is by development timeframe.
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We were looking for a concise, easy to use bird book, and this one works fine. I would have preferred drawings of the birds, but the pictures in here are good. the quick identification guide at the front covers most of the birds that come to our feeder, the remainder of the pages cover pretty much everything we see while hiking/driving/etc
My son earned a silver star by learning about quite a few birds that are listed in this book. I'm glad that I did. After going to the beach and not knowing what a lot of the bird were called, then getting a reference from someone there to get this book. I highly recommend this book.
The best part of the Stokes book is the CD of bird calls that goes with it. It also has something Peterson lacks so I enjoy using both. My wife and I live on seven acres of Maryland farm-land and enjoy many birds that are described well in one book or the other, so we use both. This book has good images and descriptions but lacks something that Roger Tory Peterson has. We have identified a couple birds that we wouldn't have been able to do without it.
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