Field guides Q: Now that spring is here, I’m going to get into birding. What’s the best bird identification book out there?
The “best” bird identification book is always a matter of choice. And I suspect that different people would give you different answers. As a beginner, though, I’d recommend that you start with a book on birds of your state or region. It can be very confusing to see lots of similar species and then find out that three-fourths of them are birds that only occur elsewhere! The Kaufman Focus Guides, Birds of North America, are specifically designed for beginning birders. Another popular series is the Peterson’s guides. My own preference is for The Sibley Guide to Birds. It is very detailed and has excellent drawings of birds in different plumages. The difference between the Sibley guide and the other two guides is more a question of display. The Peterson and Kaufman guides have lots of different birds listed on a single page while Sibley tends to put two birds per page. Sibley also has distribution maps on the pages with the bird information so you can easily see if a particular bird might
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