Sibley Guides The Guide to Birds

The second edition of The Sibley Guide to Birds is a richly detailed, lavishly illustrated volume with comprehensive information about our fascinating feathered friends. Written and illustrated by David Allen Sibley, it includes habitat information and voice description for every species, tips on finding birds in the wild, cross-referencing between bird species and families, hundreds of maps, and thousands of beautiful illustrations. This handsome flexibound book—described by famed birding author and field ornithologist Guy McCaskie as "the finest guide to North American birds"—has 624 pages and should be on every birder's bookshelf.

• All illustrations reproduced 15 to 20 percent larger for better detail
• Includes nearly 7,000 paintings digitally remastered from original art for enhanced print quality
• Expanded text with habitat information and voice description for every species and more tips on finding birds in the field
• More than 600 new paintings, including illustrations of 115 rare species and additional paintings of common species and regional populations
• More than 700 updated maps of ranges, showing winter, summer, year-round, migration, and rare ranges
• 85 bird family pages now cross-referenced to species accounts
• Revised taxonomic order and most current common names for every species

David Allen Sibley is the author and illustrator of a series of successful guides to nature. He has contributed to Smithsonian, Science, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Birding, BirdWatching, and North American Birds, and to The New York Times. He is the recipient of the Roger Tory Peterson Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Birding Association and the Linnaean Society of New York’s Eisenmann Medal. He lives and birds in Massachusetts.

EAN: 9780307957900