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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: $30.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 236022
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 5
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 450
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0395740479
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.097
UPC: 046442740470
EAN: 9780395740477
ASIN: 0395740479
Publication Date: April 4, 2002
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Product Description
Roger Tory Peterson had already made his mark with his innovative field guide when he conducted DDT research during World War II. His friend and fellow naturalist Rachel Carson built on these efforts and eventually wrote Silent Spring, a landmark text that, along with Peterson's field guide, jump-started the modern environmental movement.
By combining the tireless observation of a scientist with the imaginative skills of an artist and writer, Peterson created a field guide that Robert Bateman, in his foreword to the fifth edition, says was the doorway for millions of people into the wonderland of natural history.
The Peterson Identification System has been used in the more than fifty books that make up the Peterson Field Guide series. Peterson's magnum opus, now in its fifth edition, created the trail for countless field guides to follow. They are still following year by year, but his is the standard by which all other field guides are judged.
On the morning of July 28, 1996, Roger Peterson was painting his final bird plate. He died peacefully in his sleep later that day. It is fitting that his final work?a culmination of more than sixty years of observing, painting, and writing?should be this one, a revision of the guide that started his legacy.
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 Birds of Eastern and Central North America July 13, 2008
Contains detailed information and pictures. Also includes a section of range maps outlining the range of each species during each season. Very interesting!
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.
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