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| 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)) | 
| Creators: Roger Tory Peterson, Virginia Marie Peterson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
List Price: $27.00
Buy New: $16.72
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 118503
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 0395911745
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.2978
UPC: 046442911740
EAN: 9780395911747
ASIN: 0395911745
Publication Date: May 15, 1998
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Product Description
"The Birder's Bible" for more than 60 years, Roger Tory Peterson's classic Field Guide to Western Birds includes all species found in North America west of the 100th meridian and north of Mexico. Featuring the unique Peterson Identification System, Western Birds contains 165 full-color paintings that show more than 1,000 birds from 700 species. Summer and winter ranges, breeding grounds, and other special range data are shown on easy-to-read range maps.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 The gold standard of birding field guides April 7, 2008
If you start with this guide, you probably will never need another. Color illustrations, rather than photos, accurately illustrate the ideal image of the various birds, making specific note of the pertinent details. Birds are grouped by type for easy identification, and indexed in the back by common and Latin names.
 not useful in the field February 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not very useful in the field and in fact there are many species that aren't listed. The worst part of this book is the cross reference indexes.
 The best just got better! December 12, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This has always been the reliable and preferred reference for my wife and I. We have worn out two of the paperback version over many years of use. Now, with the revised arrangement of the book it is even easier to use and may cause it to wear out prematurely due to overuse. I might have to buy another so we can both refer to our own copy at the same time.
Field Guide To Western Birds September 27, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book is excellent in most respect. But like all of these types it doesn't provide much help in actually identifying a bird. You can't go from "small-brown-stripes on side-purple head-green feet-S. Az area to Pages xxx & xxx for the types.
This is the book for people who like birds but didn't major in biology August 24, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
So we have this pond in our backyard and it's attracted alot of birds. My husband and I have no idea what species they are or what they eat since we work in the judicial system not for the Forest Service. The solution seems pretty simple...go to Amazon and buy a bird book. So, after reviewing several options; many of which seem to require at least a Master's level education in biology and years of field experience in identification, I wildly and in some what a desperate state picked this book. What a relief when it arrives and lo and behold it is written in English with lots of pictures! We use this book at least 3-4 times per week. It is very user friendly and a great resource for the average person who wants to know what to call the yellow bird eating all the sunflower seeds...besides greedy.
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