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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.297
EAN num: 9780618307227
ISBN number: 0618307222
Label: Houghton Mifflin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 64
Printing Date: March 27, 2003
Publishing house: Houghton Mifflin
Sale Popularity Level: 593420
Studio: Houghton Mifflin
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From the brilliant blue of an Indigo Bunting to the scarlet blue of a Summer Tanager, coloring your own field guide is the most enjoyable way to learn about birds. Each drawing is accompanied by a brief description that educates as it entertains. Place the new colour stickers subsequent to the drawings for a visual reference while coloring. Coloring the drawings helps reinforce the color, image, and shape of each bird, improving your memory and perception while offering a pleasant and easy way to learn. Fun for adults as well as children, beginning and experienced naturalists alike.
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Roger Tory Peterson, one of America's pre-eminent artist-naturalists and arguably the inventor of the field guide, made people love birds like no one since John James Audubon. A Field Guide to the Birds, very first published in 1934, remains his most famous and wonderful work. The manual stood instantly apart from the dichotomous keys zoologists used to identify species, since Peterson grouped paintings of related species together and used arrows to, as he explained, 'pinpoint the key field marks.' This way, watchers could spot birds from a distance and avoid, as he archly put it, 'the bird-in-hand characters that the early collectors relied on.' Birders could use the guide where they needed it most--outdoors--on living birds flitting quickly by. In addition to detailed illustrations, Peterson offers charming (and useful) descriptions of each avian citizen's appearance, behavior, voice, and range. There is also priceless anecdotal information, based on decades of field experience, as in this description of the common house sparrow (Passer domesticus): 'Familiar to everyone. Sooty city birds often bear little resemblance to clean country males with the grey throat, white cheeks, chestnut nape.' His transliterations of song are just as quietly marvelous. For instance, Pluvialis squatarola, or the black-bellied plover, makes things clear with 'a plaintive slurred whistle, tlee-oo-eee or whee-er-ee (middle note lower).'
Peterson's original handbook covered birds of Eastern North America, and has since been followed by guides to Western birds, animal tracks, butterflies, and many other natural wonders. He and his team updated 'The Birders' Bible' as new species were discovered and classifications modified. Generations of enthusiastic watchers owe Peterson a debt of gratitude for making ornithology accessible. But equally important, he showed scientists that finding beauty in living animals, and not just cataloging the measurements of dead ones, was crucial. Roger Tory Peterson died in 1996. He will be remembered as a passionate naturalist, a keen observer of living things, and a gifted artist and teacher. --Therese Littleton
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Ya gotta love Amazon. All these reviews, and all for a different book.
The book on this page, with a photograph pasted up above, is from the Young Readers Library, from 1967, a hardback with shiny covers, 125 pp, no dustjacket. Wonderful two-colour and full colour illustrations and photos on every page really illustrate what birding is all about! Drawings like this, almost botanical illustrations, are rarely seen in books nowadays, because they are so costly. Vintage and loving it.
Chapters for the young people: biological history, migration, language, relationship to man (which should be updated, of course.) Highly recommended, and now scarce.
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Altho listed as used, the book is in perfect condition.
Great reference asset for the bird watcher or fibre carver.
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Got this book for my Mom. She had the original, but now with the large pictures and print she's able to once again enjoy and utilize this great guide.
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This is a tried and true reference book author for a newby or pro enthusiast.I have worn out two copies of the Tory Peterson books over my lifetime. Every so often, the colors used in the illustrations are slightly off. But since they are illustrations, not photographs, that is unavoidable. It's a great, great book that every person who loves birds should have in their library.
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This easy on the eyes large format edition is a great book for all ages and levels of bird watching. The soft cover makes it light to handle or take with you in the field. The large format makes identifying birds much easier and quicker. Well layed out and practical.
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