Birds
By: Robert Bateman ; foreword by Peter Matthiessen ; text by Kathryn Dean
Contributors: Dean, Kathryn, 1955-
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780375421822; 9780375422928
Subjects: Birds; Pictorial works
Description: Essential volume for birders at every level, "Sibley's Birding Basics" is illustrated with the author's extraordinary full-color paintings, all of them made specifically for this volume. In this compact guide, Sibley details everything the birder needs to know to identify species using the clues in feathers, habitats, behaviors, and sounds. 120 full-color illustrations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Peter Matthiessen; title: Introduction --; title: At home on Salt Spring Island --; title: In the Pribilofs --; title: Treeline and tundra --; title: Above Larch Valley --; title: A Wenatchee field trip --; title: Canyons and deserts of Arizona --; title: The Great Plains --; title: Spring on the Great Lakes --; title: Immigrants --; title: Eastern fields and forests --; title: On inland waters --; title: The Atlantic coast --; title: In the Everglades --; title: The tropical Americas --; title: The Galápagos --; title: Old worlds --; title: At the Taj Mahal --; title: A visit to Bharatpur --; title: The African Savanna --; title: To the Antarctic.