The Shorebird Guide
Birding by impression: an all-new, holistic approach to identifying shorebirds.
Join the experts in this revolutionary approach to bird identification. Experienced birders use the most easily observed characteristics ? size, structure, behavior, and general color patterns ? to identify birds even before looking carefully at plumage details. Now birders at all levels can learn how to identify shorebirds quickly and simply. This guide includes more than 870 stunning color photographs, starting with a general impression of the species and progressing to more detailed images of the bird throughout its life cycle. Quiz questions in the captions will engage and challenge all birders and help them benefit from this simplified, commonsense approach to identification.
The Shorebird Guide Accessories
 National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Fifth Edition
Peterson Reference Guides: Gulls of the Americas
Hawks from Every Angle: How to Identify Raptors In Flight
Shorebirds of North America: The Photographic Guide
Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion: A Comprehensive Resource for Identifying North American Birds
The Art of Pishing: How to Attract Birds by Mimicking Their Calls (Book & Audio CD)
Sparrows of the United States and Canada: The Photographic Guide
Stokes Beginner's Guide to Shorebirds
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges
The Shorebird Guide Reviews
In my opinion, highly recommended. Images superb and very descriptive; accurate and useful text.
It's one of my favorites guides to birds, i really recommend it. Nice price, lot of nice pictures, species from North America and rare birds.
I have a disadvantage at this time, not living near a large body of water, i.e. Traditionally, shorebirds are some of the more difficult birds to identify. These are not shore birds. The wonderful optics we have available now certainly help, but only to a point. The natural setting photographs in this work, which make up the first half of the book are top quality and show a variety as to juvenile, adult and sex. I know I have been struggling with them for over fifty years now and the situation does not get better with age; I assure you. As has been so well pointed out by another reviewer here, you will not find terns and gulls and their ilk in this work.
I use it in conjunction with the four field guides I do carry in my swag bag and have found this is pretty effective. Highly recommend this one. . salt water or marsh, so I do not get to practice the way I use to.
I need all the help I can get. These critters are still difficult, even for the very experienced. Don Blankenship. Of the several works I have addressing shore birds; this is right at the top as to usefulness and as a source of valuable information. There are other fine books, i.e.
This book is a wonderful addition to my collection. The Ozarks Markings are quite clear and if they are used with other books, it makes life so much simpler. For this I was grateful as it excluded a lot of unneeded clutter. It is a bit large to haul around like a normal field guide, but like another reviewer, I keep mine stashed in my care for quick use before the image of the bird leaves me.
most competent field guides, to help in the gull/tern area. What a wonderful and useful work.
The classic "Peterson Identification Method" (much revered by bird lovers, instrumental in the formation of birding itself, and still highly useful), which stresses the importance of unique "field marks" is slowly ceding to a new holistic approach (also known as GISS: General Impression of Shape and Size). This guide is at the forefront of that movement, along with Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion, and should be on the shelf of any birder who wishes to improve his or her identification skills. Novice birders often wonder at the mastery of experts who can identify birds far away immediately without raising their binoculars; such ability can only come with experience, but this book offers valuable insight into that esoteric ability. Over the past few years an avant-garde style of bird identification has arisen.
This is the Bird ID book that can stay on the coffee table. If you want to know shore birds this is the book. Let me be quick to point out if you are looking for gulls or terns they will not be in this book. Pages and pages of wonderful pictures of shorebirds make up the front section of the book. This is a book about the small brownish birds ( sometimes called Peeps) that can be seen on our shores. Sanderlings, sandpipers, Godwitts, Dunlin, and our rapidly declining Red Knots are the subjects of this book.
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