Lives of North American Birds
Created as a companion to field guides, this encyclopedic avian natural history is the print version of the previously issued CD-ROM Peterson Multimedia Guides: North American Birds. Organized like the CD-ROM, the book presents 600 species of birds in taxonomic order and groups them by family. Small color photographs and range maps accompany concise, plain-language information regarding nesting, feeding, migration, courtship, habitat, clutch size, and conservation status. Upping the included species to 900 are brief descriptions of nonendemic vagrant birds. The omission of additional ornithological topics makes this reference quick to use and sets it apart from comprehensive sources such as The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of American Birds, but the similar coverage found in Paul R. Ehrlich's The Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds (S. & S., 1988) would satisfy this niche as well.?Frank Reiser, Nassau Community Coll., Garden City, N.Y.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.