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| Birds of North America (Kaufman Focus Guides) | 
| Creators: Kenn Kaufman, Lynn Hassler Kaufman, Rick Bowers, Nora Bowers
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
List Price: $20.00
Buy Used: $0.46
You Save: $19.54 (98%)
New (2) from $68.97
Avg. Customer Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 217061
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0395964644
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.097
UPC: 046442964647
EAN: 9780395964644
ASIN: 0395964644
Publication Date: September 22, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Mild warping; spine okay. Book is ACCEPTABLE with noted wear to cover and pages. Binding intact. May contain highlighting, inscriptions or notations. We offer a no-hassle guarantee on all our items. Orders generally ship by the next business day. Default Text
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| Customer Reviews:
 If you buy one birding book - this is the one! March 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I own lots of bird books, and the ones you're "supposed" to own - National Geographic (3rd edition), Peterson Guide to Western Birds, Sibley, Golden, and a few others. This one's my favorite, and the most practical in the field. One reviewer wrote that they prefer illustrations - I disagree. As amazing as the illustrators for other guides are, photographs just go somewhere where a drawing can't. And I do love National Geographic and Sibley, but the editions I own, by the time you've looked up the bird you're looking for, it's probably flown away. This is my favorite. That's not to say I don't think any birder should go without National Geographic or Sibley; but those two books are better for doing your homework; Kaufman beats them in the field.
excellent book for the birder with a little experience January 7, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed the way Kaufman grouped birds together according to type. If you know your birds a little then you can just go to the type and pick which one it looks most like. Also,there were photos of the bird in it's different plumages...male, female, juvenile, winter, summer, etc. and he showed pictures of different subspecies variations. The maps and graphs were thorough and easy to understand. Kenn took much of the confusion out of birding!
The Definitive Birding Field Guide December 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I own several birding field guides & this is my favorite. It is compact, user friendly & the pictures are excellent. I recently lost my copy. This purchase was a replacement.
Love this book August 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We use this all the time to identify the birds around us and when we travel. Great pictures!
great pictures, makes it easy to identify birds June 12, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
we were replacing a golden field guide to birds that got dunked in the water....this one is great! Sturdy binding, good indexing, great pictures, I find it very easy to use. We enjoy identifying the birds around our home in Minnesota but are not "birdwatchers". I would recommend it highly.
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