This is the book that goes beyond the field guides: not a guide for naming the birds, but a reference for understanding them -- a complete, handy, one-volume encyclopedia on the fascinating lives of our birds.* Includes information about more than 900 birds: complete life histories for 680 species that occur regularly in North America and shorter accounts for more than 230 others that visit occasionally, with more than 600 beautiful photographs and more than 600 range maps.* Gives every important detail about the lives of birds: what they eat, where they build their nests, how many eggs they lay, what habitat they choose, when they migrate, what their current conservation status is, and much more.

Naturalist Handbook for Birds (Peterson Natural History Companions)

Science & Math

Kenn Kaufman

Nature & Ecology

Houghton Mifflin (P)

Kenn Kaufman's FOCUS GUIDE cuts through the clutter to focus on the essentials. *More than 2,000 photographs selected and digitally edited to show exactly how to recognize each bird. *Vivid descriptions capture each bird's key markings, habits, habitat, and voice. *Clear, simple, and efficient organization: similar birds are shown together, and all the information you need can be seen at a glance. Color keys make it easy to find the right group. *Range maps show where and when to see each bird throughout the year.

Birds of North America (Kaufman Focus Guides)

Houghton/Mifflin

More than 2,300 images of butterflies in accurate, lifelike poses highlight this complete guide to North American butterflies, which includes handy indexes, range maps, and helpful identification tips.

Butterflies of North America (Kaufman Focus Guides)

Jim P. Brock

Biological Sciences

Written by the experts at Bird Watcher's Digest, Identify Yourself gives beginning and intermediate bird watchers a helping hand with some of the most confounding identification challenges -- birds that are commonly encountered but difficult to tell apart. Combining clear, easy-to-understand text with beautiful illustrations that show key field marks, Identify Yourself is the solution to identifying many of North America's hard-to-distinguish birds..

Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges

Julie Zickefoose

The Bird Watcher's Digest

Bill Thompson, III

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

A close look at one season in one key site that reveals the amazing science and magic of spring bird migration, and the perils of human encroachment. Every spring, billions of birds sweep north, driven by ancient instincts to return to their breeding grounds. This vast parade often goes unnoticed, except in a few places where these small travelers concentrate in large numbers. One such place is along Lake Erie in northwestern Ohio. There, the peak of spring migration is so spectacular that it attracts bird watchers from around the globe, culminating in one of the world's biggest birding festivals. Millions of winged migrants pass through the region, some traveling thousands of miles, performing epic feats of endurance and navigating with stunning accuracy. Now climate change threatens to disrupt patterns of migration and the delicate balance between birds, seasons, and habitats. But wind farms-popular as green energy sources-can be disastrous for birds if built in the wrong places. This is a fascinating and urgent study of the complex issues that affect bird migration.

A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration

Earth Sciences

Blackstone Publishing

A close look at one season in one key site that reveals the amazing science and magic of spring bird migration, and the perils of human encroachment.Every spring, billions of birds sweep north, driven by ancient instincts to return to their breeding grounds. This vast parade often goes unnoticed, except in a few places where these small travelers concentrate in large numbers. One such place is along Lake Erie in northwestern Ohio. There, the peak of spring migration is so spectacular that it attracts bird watchers from around the globe, culminating in one of the world's biggest birding festivals. Millions of winged migrants pass through the region, some traveling thousands of miles, performing epic feats of endurance and navigating with stunning accuracy. Now climate change threatens to disrupt patterns of migration and the delicate balance between birds, seasons, and habitats. But wind farms--popular as green energy sources--can be disastrous for birds if built in the wrong places. This is a fascinating and urgent study of the complex issues that affect bird migration.

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Books by Kenn Kaufman

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Naturalist Handbook for Birds (Peterson Natural History Companions)

Birds of North America (Kaufman Focus Guides)

Butterflies of North America (Kaufman Focus Guides)

Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges

A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration

A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration