The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
The Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the new standard of excellence in bird identification guides, covering more than 810 North American birds in amazing detail. Now comes a new portable guide from David Sibley that every birder will want to carry into the field. Compact and comprehensive, this new guide features 703 bird species plus regional populations found west of the Rocky Mountains. Accounts include stunningly accurate illustrations?more than 4,600 in total?with descriptive caption text pointing out the most important field marks. Each entry contains new text concerning frequency, nesting, behavior, food and feeding, voice description, and key identification features. Accounts also include brand-new maps created from information contributed by 110 regional experts across the continent.
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America is an indispensable resource for all birders seeking an authoritative and portable guide to the birds of the West.
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America Accessories
 The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Fifth Edition
The Sibley Guide to Birds
Sibley's Birding Basics
A Field Guide to Western Birds: A Completely New Guide to Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian and North of Mexico (Peterson Field Guides (R))
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior
Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America
A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians (Peterson Field Guides (R))
Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds, Western Region
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America Reviews
. If you saw a sparrow somewhere and you don't know anything about sparrows so that you need a book. There are charts comparing all the warblers. . If you are a birder or becoming one, the blue book, A guide to field identification BIRDS of north america.
The ratio seem off and can be confusing some times. pizza It is better on your eyes because the pictures and organization are not ugly. It doesn't compare one birds that are similar so that you can be like how do I know if it's not this.
It maybe a good bird book for wildlife biologist or people who know everything already for reference sometimes, but for normal people who might need to figure out what the bird they saw was, it is not the book to use. Well I am talking too much about it. It is a sight for sore eyes compared to the sibleys.
Just buy BIRDS of north america because it's what all the kool kids have and sibleys sucks and is lame. The pictures do a bad job a depicting the bird as you see it in the field. Too heavy and bulky to be handy. In some of the pictures it has terrain in which the bird might be found sometimes.
I can only say that the wrentit picture is kinda off but that bird is very unique so it's kinda hard to draw. You will not be able to figure it out using sibleys because their chart is insane. First off, the book is too big to fit in a sorta big pocket. .
. etc by their heads so that you can pick out the one you saw between two birds if not immediately.
The pictures are great. The charts it has for distinguishing one warbler from others is inefficient and confusing because there is too much to look at.
. It even has sonograms for some calls. The pictures are ugly to look at.
These notes are short text indicators of distinguishing features of a given bird with a line connecting the note to the feature being emphasized in the drawing. Of course, the general descriptions and "range maps" are an essential part of the guide. I chose the Sibley guide from other excellent field guides principally because of the notes accompanying each drawing.
I would recommend it. This is an awesome book for birders with a lot of detail and illustrations on each type of bird.
I'd recommend it to anyone who is just starting out as a birder or is a lifetime lover of birds. I think this is an excellant bird guide.
I purchased this book for my fiance's birthday, as we're new to the birdwatching world. It's aboslutely wonderful, and we'll use it for many years to come.
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