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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
Buy New: $9.49
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Avg. Customer Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 448040
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: 5TH EDITION HARDCOVER,CLEAN UNREAD COPY, Free Delivery Confirmation, Orders Processed Quickly, Will Ship Immediately
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| Customer Reviews:
 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!
 5th edition larger than 4th - not good! May 19, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
RTP's bird guides are the best by far, but why oh why would they make the book bigger than the old one? It is 1/2 inch wider and taller too - which puts it just a little too large for my jacket pocket. I sure miss my 4th edition, which, sadly, I seem to have lost.
(Which brings me to another point birders -- don't put important field notes or dates, or heaven forbid your life list, in your bird book - it is too easy to lose it!)
Great for field identification May 11, 2008
This bird guide is in the typical Peterson style: good sketches of the birds with arrows pointing to key features which will help the field researcher/student distinguish one bird from other similar birds. It also gives information such as range for each bird plus a couple interesting facts. I'm using this book for a field biology class in college and have found it very useful.
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