Product Description

Learn about and identify birds using Stan Tekiela's state-by-state field guides. The full-page, color photos are incomparable and include insets of winter plumage, color morphs and more. Plus, with the easy-to-use format, you don't need to know a bird's name or classification in order to easily find it in the book. Using this field guide is a real pleasure. It's a great way for anyone to learn about the birds in your state.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44053 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 296 pages

Customer Reviews

Must buy for Michigan bird watchers
This is an excellent book for those who are not bird experts but would like some interesting information on birds you might find and are curious about. Book is small, compact size to take into the field without being cumbersome. Photos are excellent and I like how the birds are grouped by general color for quick reference. No need to know the scientific names though they are given below the common name at the top of the page.

Incomplete? Possibly, but a MUST have.
The fact that this book only contains 100+ birds when MI has 400+ birds is explained right in the front of the book. This is a guide containing the more common species and is a lovely book to have. Do I wish it had ALL the MI birds? Yes, but only because Stan Tekiela is such an excellent author, I certainly don't have anything negative to say about his work. This book just leaves me wanting more. Hear that, Stan? :o) I have a field guide for birds of north america with only drawn illustrations and I hate it.

If you want sorting by genus etc, keep looking....and quit complaining. I for one, LOVE the format of Stan's books, the color-coding, etc. and I hope he always keeps it simple for use by regular people. Getting too scientific & complex would just turn it into a school book, yuck. This book should be more complete because it's so excellent. I have the mammals guide, too (which IS complete) and can't WAIT to get his wildflowers, trees, & reptiles/ampibians books.

Perfect!
What a great book! Really helps me identify my back yard "friends".
It arrived on time and in the conditiion described. Thank you.