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| A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America | 
| Creators: Roger Tory Peterson, Virginia Marie Peterson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 2410
Media: Turtleback
Edition: 5th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 450
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5 x 1
MPN: 0-395-74046-0
ISBN: 0395740460
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.097
UPC: 046442740463
EAN: 9780395740460
ASIN: 0395740460
Publication Date: April 4, 2002
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Product Description
Completely revised, with range maps throughout. Includes 153 color plates with multiple illustrations - Flexi-bound.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 47 more reviews...
 A must for Bird watching June 9, 2008
If you like to watch birds - even from your window - this is a must have!!!
 Overtaken by the competition! June 5, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great in its day but now far surpassed by the Sibley guides. The females of the species tend to be the tricky ones to identify so in a field guide why oh why hide them behind the males so that the features can't be seen in the plates.
A great guide 30 years ago but it is time to move on...
Simply The Best June 4, 2008
The Peterson Series is clearly the best. Other books may have quality real life pictures, but in the field our friends seldom look just like the pictures and we don't have time to view. So knowing the key markings makes it much easier and faster to identify the birds.
Excellent service from Amazon as well.
AS EXPECTED May 27, 2008
THIS BIRD BOOK IS AS I EXPECTED. HAVEN'T HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO USE IT MUCH AS YET.
My favorite birding guide May 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Some folks like the Sibley guide and a couple of the others but I have stayed with this one since my first birding days in the '60s. Since that time, I've been many places in the Eastern U.S. where this field guide has been invaluable.
Of course you need the softcover edition to use in the field (which this one is). It will fit in a pocket IF you have a big pocket! As the years go by and this book gets revised, it gets BIGGER, so I'm glad to have an older edition. I also still have my dad's First Edition which he used a great deal as a science teacher and locally renowned naturalist.
Like my father, I'm more of a botanist (a "generalist," really) and my wife is the Macro-birder. She switches between any one of three guides for this region but has nothing but good things to say about her well-worn Peterson guide.
I have written up a "So you'd like to buy a birding field guide?" site on Amazon. So if you're new to birding and you are confused about which guide you need, you might find this site helpful.
Happy birding!
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