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Kaufman Focus Guides: Birds of North America (Paperback)
by Kenn Kaufman (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade) (Sep 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0395964644
  • ISBN-13: 978-0395964644
  • Product Dimensions: 19.1 x 11.5 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
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Collects photographs, range maps, and descriptive entries identifying the markings, habits, habitat, and voice of each species.
 

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5.0 out of 5 stars The handiest field guide to North American birds, 18 April 2006
According to the author, Kaufman Guides are "the best and fastest way to get started... to send you outside quickly, putting names on what you find". If that is the objective, the "Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America" has realised it admirably.

Aimed at the beginner rather than the expert, the facing-page format allows illustrations, text, and range map for each bird to be viewed simultaneously, at one opening of the book. That is a major advantage over, say, the Peterson Field Guide series. As for the illustrations, Kaufman opts for digitally enhanced photographs over paintings, the idea being to combine the strengths of a real, photographic representation with the flexibility of a painting. There are more than 2,000 depictions of birds in natural conditions, all of them processed digital images based on photographs. Range maps show where each species is common or rare and indicate migratory status.

A further advantage over most other North American bird guides is the inclusion of all the regularly occurring birds, so you do not need to purchase separate field guides for the East and West.

For anyone with a casual to enthusiastic interest in birds, this is the field guide to get. It will enable you to "search and locate" fairly easily. Even the experienced birder may find him / herself carrying this handy little guide and leaving the heavier tomes (Sibley) in the car.
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