Description
This new edition of the trusted National Geographic® field guide combines all new text, updated taxonomy, expanded art including 240 new illustrations, and authoritative, data-derived maps, organized in the user-friendly format for which our field guides are known.
For the first time including the birds of Hawaii as well as Alaska, Canada, and the continental United States - a total of 1155 bird species - all these revisions make this new edition the most authoritative birding book on the market, whether you have treasured our previous editions for decades or you are selecting a bird field guide for the first time ever.
Written by Ted Floyd, editor of the American Birding Association’s Birding magazine, this new edition features larger pages and flexible yet durable paperback binding, with thumb tabs and a visual index inside the covers for quick reference.
- Paperback
- Convenient page layout, with maps and text on left and matching art on right
- Up-to-date taxonomic organization
- New maps developed with eBird data from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Key statistics in bulleted lists
- Entirely new text, emphasizing not only bird IDs but also habitats and evolution
- Images by world’s top bird illustrators, including important details
annotations on the images, pointing to field marks critical for identification - 592 pages
- Dimensions: 9"H x 6"W
ISBN: 9781426223082