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The Crossley ID Guide Eastern Birds

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The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds

Richard Crossley (Flexibound) Princeton University Press 2011-01-31


Price: $35.00


Customer Reviews:
  1. Excellent photos, concise text; ID guide but not field guide
    BASICS: flexcover, 2011, 529pp; large photo identification guide to the 660+ species in eastern US/Canada; excellent color photos show multiple plumages and poses of the bird digitally inserted over natural backgrounds; brief text gives concise descriptions of the bird and its vocalizations;...
  2. The Crossley Guide - an idea not fully executed
    At first, the new Crossley book seems like a great idea that was long in coming - publish a book for bird identification that presents photos of birds in natural settings, and in poses and positions that people will actually see in the wild instead of the Peterson style of consistent poses where...
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The Crossley ID Guide, Eastern Birds
529 pages 		The Crossley ID Guide, Eastern Birds

Creator: Richard Crossley | Nature - 2011-02-20
"640 ... scenes created from 10,000 of the author's photographs ... lifelike in-focus scenes show birds in their habitats, from near and far, and in all plumages and behaviors"--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
The Antarctic dictionary, a complete guide to Antarctic English
394 pages 		The Antarctic dictionary, a complete guide to Antarctic English

Creator: Bernadette Hince | 2000
1995 Crossley. Louise Explore Antarctica Cambridge University Press. Cambridge: 1 3. The East Antarctic ice sheet ... Steve and Burn, Hilary Wildfowl: an identification guide to the ducks. geese and swans of the world Christopher Helm .
Publisher: Csiro

It's about time we get to know the gull next door

— Is large and diverse, with 36 gull species known in North America. Their ranks include some of the world’s handsomest birds, and not all are prone to Dumpster-diving.

Two of the rarest species, the ivory and Ross’s gulls, winter along Arctic pack ice, trailing polar bears and mopping up their kills. Beautiful, dainty Bonaparte’s gulls, which are common Ohio migrants, are strict sushi eaters, deftly snagging small fish from the water.

Ring-billed and herring gulls and many of the other large species are omnivores; they’ll eat almost anything. Smart and opportunistic, gulls capitalize on the offal of humans. Our rubbish and castoffs are their fortune.

As human society — and our attendant trash — has expanded, so has the gulls’ population. That’s why we see so many in central Ohio.

From the mid-1800s until the 1920s, ring-billed gulls were slaughtered in great numbers for the millinery trade. Tacky as it might seem, women’s hats were adorned with the feathers of gulls and many other birds — sometimes even the whole bird. When the practice ceased, it took awhile for gulls to rebound, but there are probably more of them than ever.

Source: Columbus Dispatch

Favorite Plate in The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds

by Mike

Photos of the Hood Merganser (HOME) in air and in water, near and far, they do a great job of showing what Crossley is trying to accomplish: to show how they appear at different distances in different circumstances .. and those up and down the ridges and sex differences, is something that needs more pictures. It is also a really nice composition! (Barbara Rubinstein)

My favorite food (s) are the two page spread of Red-headed Woodpecker and Red-bellied woodpecker. When I saw this I decided to spread Crossley was a good buy.The plate RHWO steals the show almost exact representation of my life with red hair, while the plate RBWO looks remarkably like a local park where the red-bellieds are a gimme. I guess if Crossley crazy photo-habitat purchases a resonance with me, especially with family, even those studying the birds future goal will pay for a trip....

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Birding In The National Parks: Grab A Field Guide, There Are Many! The most recent addition to the field guide family also plays with the traditional photo method. Richard Crossley's Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds has generated more hype than any new book since the Sibley Guide. Crossley uses unretouched photographs
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River Forest Leaves - Dec 31, 1969

Sibley's guide has more than 6600 illustrations of more than 810 species that occur in North America. This book is the bible for most serious North American birders. The latest in field guides is Richard Crossley's The Crossley Id Guide: Eastern Birds.