A Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Birding Challenges and How to Approach Them
- ISBN13: 9780395975008
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Covering thirty-five of the most difficult groups of birds, from winter loons to confusing fall warblers, jaegers to chickadees, accipiters to flycatchers, this clearly written and beautifully illustrated field guide tells exactly how to solve the most challenging bird identification problems of North America.Amazon.com Review
Stumped by seemingly indistinguishable immature gulls covering the beach? Wonder whether the accipiter raiding your feeder is a female sharp-shinned hawk or a male Cooper’s hawk? Well-known birder and author Kenn Kaufman presents some of North America’s most challenging bird-identification conundrums in this guide for the advanced birder. Each chapter covers a group of difficult-to-identify or similar-looking birds, with analyses, tips, and drawings to aid in positive identification. Improve your birding skills and add more species to your life list with this excellent resource.
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This book rocks the house
Rating: 5 / 5
A Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Birding Challenges and How to Approach Them
I bought this book and the contents are very helpful in identifying birds. The problem is it has the information duplicated from pages 145 to 176, skipping from page 112. I have tried to exchange it with another one, but it had the same problem. I tried to do that for the third time, and now I am waiting for it. I hope it arrives with all the pages and no duplications.
Rating: 5 / 5
A Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Birding Challenges and How to Approach Them
If you’re at the stage where you want to know the nuances of gull id, spotting the differences between hawks seen at great distances, then this is a book you need (along with a couple more years of experience….)
Rating: 5 / 5
A Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Birding Challenges and How to Approach Them
I have quite a few birding books and have been birding for 30+ years. I feel that this book has been a key for improving my skills, more than any of the other books with the exception of the new Sibley guide and perhaps the old out of print “The Western Birdwatcher” by Zimmerman.
Kuaffman’s books taught me some key points that I still employ when checking the scaups, dowitchers, gulls and looking for Western Sandpipers among other difficult identifications. His succinct descriptions and comparitive sketches make it much more possible to know how to identify a juvenile Western Sandpiper as opposed to a Semipalmated Sandpiper. I found that I would often go back to this book rather than the other shorebird books I had. Another key section in the book is the coverage of identification tips for the Terns. I had always found it difficult to separate Forster’s and Common in the field despite the seemingly easy differences in field guides. This book helped out with good wing pattern comparisons and other marks that were not included in the guides. The pattern drawings of the Terns and Shorebirds alone are worth the cost of the book.
If you are ready to start on Iceland and Thayer’s Gull or Rufous and Allen’s Hummingbirds you can’t go wrong by getting Kauffman’s Advanced Birding.
Rating: 5 / 5
A Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Birding Challenges and How to Approach Them
This is a great book for serious birders. It contains a great amount of important information that is well organized and helpful. This is a technical book that I would not recommend for the beginner, however, I found it practical in its structure and content.
I strongly recommend this book. I held back from awarding a full five stars because I felt that their illustrations lacked a little “life” although experienced birders will probably not find this to be a problem.
Rating: 4 / 5
A Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Birding Challenges and How to Approach Them