The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America | David Allen Sibley, Rick Cech

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America | David Allen Sibley, Rick Cech | I have most of them, but really only use this one

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	The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America David Allen Sibley, Rick Cech Knopf, 2003 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 60 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Best Guide for the Field

As a new birder, I did a lot of checking before buying a guide. I found Sibley to be the best guide for the field. While there is limited information, this guide provides essential information needed to make a positive identification. It includes multiple images of birds as well as any variants for gender, age, etc. While I would definitely suggest at least looking at other guides, I would say this is the essential guide for time in the field. Additionally, now that the larger Sibley Guide has been split into a Eastern and Western version it is portable: it fits in my back pocket as I trek through the woods.

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I have most of them, but really only use this one

The Sibley book is the only guide I really use anymore. It just seems every time I find a tough bird to ID the sibley book is the one that makes my mind up. The drawings are almost caricatures of the birds, really accentuating what you need to pick out. The Nat. Geo book is good (more artistic drawings) and I keep my official tally in it, but when I go out walking around I take sibley. It also fits in your back pocket While Nat. geo. (Other Favorite) Doesnt. Peterson Guide I'm not a huge fan of. Flipping around to find the Range map, That bugs me.

Best Overall Guide Available

This excellent field guide is a bit bulky but other than that minor negative, this is the best field guide available, offering several pictures of each bird in various stages (i.e. immature/youth, seasonal, in-flight, and rare variations), printed on very high quality paper, as well as song/call variations which are more complete than most guides. Make note of unusual activities and when you get back to your car, check out the Sibley Guide To Bird Behavior for confirmation of all your sitings. As a package the Sibley Guides are the best available.

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Great book even for the non-birding folk

Clear pictures, easy descriptions. Very easy to use!

sibley guide to birds of eastern america

I was visiting my mother (and sisters) out of state. She is interested in birds, but hadn't a current bird book. The Sibley books are very good, so I was able to order this one right away,
and have it delivered right to her house.

The book came right away, condition just fine, we were all
able to start using it to read up on the birds she sees in
her area (Irish Hills in southern Michigan.) Those birds
are quite different from the ones I see in southern California.
What a pleasure it was to all get together, spot the various
bird, look them up, discuss the information about them--fun!
Thanks for a good job, well done...

Gail

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