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| The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America | 
| Author: David Allen Sibley
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 6829
Media: Turtleback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 472
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 0679451218
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.097
EAN: 9780679451211
ASIN: 0679451218
Publication Date: April 29, 2003
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Product Description
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 44 more reviews...
 The perfect gift! June 8, 2008
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.
The very best! May 30, 2008
I bought this book for my little brother in California for his birthday. He has just started getting in to watching the different birds and trying to identifying them by there calls. He really loves this guide book. For any body woh getes in to bird watching, Sibley field guide is a must have...
The BEST field guide May 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I own every book on bird identification that I have been able to find for birds of the western United States. This is by far the one I use the most. I've purchased it for several of my birding friends, keep a copy at my home site and one in my truck. One of the points that makes Sibley's guide so useful is that there are no actual photographs of birds. He has drawings that give the "more common" colorations of each species. Photographs seldom yield such a wide spectrum of coloration. I use other bird guides because they have good information, but Sibley's guide is the one most easy to use, and the most practical for really knowing the bird you are identifying.
Excellent Reference Book - great for students and bird enthusiasts May 3, 2008
I purchased this book for my Biology class and it has been more than helpful. It shows each bird in various poses, stages of life and shows the differences between the two sexes. Very informative and easy to navigate!
 a very useful field guide April 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a compact field guide derived from David Allen Sibley's highly regarded _The Sibley Guide to Birds_. This may be heresy, but in this instance the derivative surpasses the original, and that is no mean feat.
Most notably, it is compact enough to carry into the field, and that's where birders try to sort through as many diagnostic puzzles as possible. Most species accounts include fewer visual representations than the corresponding accounts found in the Guide to Birds, but the illustrations selected are usually quite sufficient.
Remarkably, the text associated with many species accounts is more informative than the information found in the larger guide: more information about habitat preferences, behavior, and description.
I have noticed some separation from the binding near the middle of each of the two field guides I have (eastern and western) but in neither instance is it really a problem. This isn't going to be my primary North American guide (I'll still rely on the National Geographic field guide for that purpose) but if I carry two guides into the field this will often be the second.
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