The journal is a useful tool to record information on your bird sightings. The book is divided into 60 chapters by North American bird famalies. The chapter introduction includes a brief description of each bird family and where it can be located.Each of the 500 birds shown has a half page in the book with a black and white line drawing of the bird, the birds name, common name and a space for date and location of sighting. Another 6 or 7 lines of space is provided for each bird for recording notes on the sighting.
The author encourages readers to use colored pencils to color the markings for each bird seen.
The book is easy to use. The large 7" x 10" pages provide a lot of room to record your observations.