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| National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds--E: Eastern Region - Revised Edition | 
| Author: National Audubon Society
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 15104
Media: Turtleback
Edition: 2 Rev Sub
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 800
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 3.9 x 1.4
ISBN: 0679428526
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.297
EAN: 9780679428527
ASIN: 0679428526
Publication Date: September 27, 1994
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| Customer Reviews:
 Always the best from National Audubon February 10, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
These are the best books for bird watching. I haven't seen a bird that I couldn't find in this book. Living in the country in Tennessee and feeding our wild birds we see a lot of different species and some are hard to differentiate. The Audubon color plates make things a lot easier. I've been able to identify 6 species of woodpecker on one tree alone. If you like watching wild birds it's a must have.
Friends at the Feeder January 11, 2007
This field guide is the first one that I purchased when I was a young married, and now 30 years later, that poor copy was falling apart, from constant use. I never was a "birder" in the sense of going out into the woods and carrying binoculars, but I have always loved having bird feeders set up near windows and one actually nailed onto the outside of my kitchen window for the closest possible scrutiny. And the Nat'l Audubon Soc. Field Guide has been my mainstay all these years. I used the blank back pages of the book to jot down the types of birds that I observed, and when we moved into town, I continued doing so, interested in seeing which birds were townies and which (unfortunately) I had to say goodbye to. An amazing number of country birds would sometimes show up at my town birdfeeder, however, so the Field Guide was never far from a windowsill, with a pen stuck in it. The photographs are very good, and the explanations of habitat and habits, as well as descriptions, are excellent. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to know what lovely flyer he/she is being charmed with at any given moment.
 Eastern Field Guide November 10, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book, like the Western Guide, is easy to take with you but it also suffers from, what is to us, photos that aren't all that easy to compare with what we see. We had a difficult time trying to identify a woodpecker we saw because the book only described the juvenile phases which is what we think we saw. We have also run into descriptions that are half and half leaving us still wondering what we did see. I wish that they could fix that so it is more comprehensive.
 Good reference November 4, 2006
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Other reviewers have correctly noted this guide's inclusion of upwards of 300 pages of gorgeous color plates of sea, woodland, shore and freshwater birds, not to mention dozens of species of prey.
But as others have also reported, the book is not always great for watching birds in the field, as it requires flipping back and forth between the color plates and the 400 pages plus of habitat, range, call, size, coloring and other data to determine whether one is viewing the type of bird one thinks; generally speaking, before the id is made, the bird is gone.
Still, this is a good book to have on hand, as it's provides a good reference book before heading to the field--and after the fact. We've been occasional birders for the better part of several decades, and this reference has always been a good friend.
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Eastern Region - Revised Edition August 7, 2006
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
Excellent book for every bird watcher.
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