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| The Shorebird Guide | 
| Authors: Richard Crossley, Kevin Karlson, Michael O'brien
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 48955
Media: Turtleback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 496
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.2 x 1.5
ISBN: 0618432949
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.33
EAN: 9780618432943
ASIN: 0618432949
Publication Date: April 24, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Perfect condition
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| Customer Reviews:
Shorebird Guide May 14, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
An excellent shorebird guide. The best I have ever owned. Extremely helpful in teaching you HOW to identify shorebirds.
The Shorebirds of North America March 12, 2007
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
Haven't seen The Shorebird Guide, sounds wonderful, but I found no reference, in the 17 or 18 reviews, to Bob Clem's Shorebirds of North America(1967). I find paintings, from Peterson to Sibley, much more satisfing than photographs: there is something in a painting that captures the soul of the bird that the photo just can't do. And then Pete Matthiessen wrote the text for Bob's paintings. A dynamic duo! Just went to a "Wine and Woodcocks" event at JEDSAS, an Audubon sanctuary across the creek from our village of Neavitt, in Maryland. I look forward to seeing their copy of The Shorebird Guide. But why do we forget such a classic shorebird book that was only 40 years ago?
This is indeed THE guide to shorebirds February 22, 2007
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is perhaps the best bird family guide that I've seen. It is definitely the best identification guide to this difficult group of birds.
The book focuses more on size and shape rather than plumage. Therefore, the photos aren't like other guides. They are not all uniformly sized super close-up shots of a single bird. Instead they are sized to better emphasize certain characteristics. They often show multiple birds of different species so as to give a better comparison of size, shape, and plumage.
One of the best features of the guide is the questions in some captions. Most species have at least one question in one of their photo captions. The questions ask the reader to do such things as identify some of the species in the photo, or to pick out one particular species among all the birds present. The answers are contained in an appendix in the back. These questions force the reader to apply the knowledge and techniques imparted by the authors and look more critically and actively at the photograph.
I can't recommend this book enough.
the shorebird guide January 11, 2007
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
Excellent coverage on shorebirds....good fotos with comparative fotos really outstanding....any serious birder in the tropics can get great value out of this book
A Definitive Guide for Birders January 11, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book describes a new approach for identifying birds and applies it to the specific case of Shore birds (which can be difficult to identify). There are many photographs for each species. It includes photos of different species together to give the birder a clear indication of the differences (size, color, etc) between similar species. All in all I like this different approach to bird identification.
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