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| Sibley's Birding Basics: How to Identify Birds, Using the Clues in Feathers, Habitats, Behaviors, and Sounds |
by David Allen Sibley
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| Product Details |
| • ISBN: | 0-375-70966-5 |
| • Author: | David Allen Sibley |
| • Publisher: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| • Publication Date: | September 2002 |
| • Cover Type: | paper with flaps |
| • Pages: | 154 pages, 5 x 8 1/4
full-color illustrations, b&w illustrations |
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| Product Description |
The quintessential activity of birding—identification—is the subject of this compact, easy-to-use, wonderfully helpful new book by America’s premier living painter of birds, author and illustrator of The Sibley Guide to Birds, the book that has taken American birders by storm, and illustrator of the acclaimed and best-selling Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior.
In Sibley’s Birding Basics David Allen Sibley details everything the birder needs to know to identify species. Even experts will be able to use the book to hone their skills of identification. Sibley tells us when and where to look for birds, and explains the basic concepts of identification: shape and size of the bird itself, and the colors and other defining features of the feathers. He describes how best to note and interpret these characteristics, and how to use observable behavior, habitat information, and bird calls in the interest of identification. Each point is illustrated with Sibley’s extraordinary full-color paintings—all of them made specifically for this volume—which range from a detail of a feather to a view of the whole bird.
Sibley’s Birding Basics is an essential volume for birders at every level. |
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