Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion : A Comprehensive Resource for Identifying North American Birds (Hardcover)

from lorax

As the title implies, this is not a field guide. There are no illustrations and no maps. Rather, this is the next best thing to going birding with an expert -- the little details and intangibles that experts use to identify birds, as well as textual descriptions of the appearance and range. (The ...

from Asata

Excellent book--entertaining descriptions and details, keeps you laughing while you learn essential items for field use.

from Sandydog1

There is no longer any need to assemble a birding library. Buy a Sibley Guide, add this wonderful door-stop, and you are all set. There's not a single illustration here. It is just full of Dunne-isms, observations and winsome, quaint nicknames of all of North America's birds.

from birdsetcetera

Dunne's book provides all the exhausting detail that the other field guides don't have room to include, without one glaring detail (photographs or paintings of the birds themselves), hence the "companion" part of the title. This book should be part of the library of any serious birder.

from lorax

As the title implies, this is not a field guide. There are no illustrations and no maps. Rather, this is the next best thing to going birding with an expert -- the little details and intangibles that experts use to identify birds, as well as textual descriptions of the appearance and range. (The ...