The Sibley Guide to Birds | Carlacreations.com
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With the Sibley Guide to Birds, National Audubon Society makes the art and experience of David Sibley available to the world in a large, beautiful, easy-to-use volume, which will be the indispensable identification guide every birder must own.More of 10 years in the making, David Sibley's Guide to Birds is a monumental result.The beautiful watercolor illustrations (6,600, covering 810 species in North America) and clear, descriptive text place Sibley and his work in the tradition of John James Audubon and Roger Tory Peterson, the more of a birdwatcher and evangelist, is one of the most important bird painters and authorities in the United States again, his field guide will no doubt spark debate. Unlike Kenn Kaufman Focus Guides, Sibley is unapologetically aimed at conversion.beginning birders may want to retain a copy of Sibley at home as a reference, but the wealth of information will have the same effect on novices like trying to find a single Sandpiper in a flock of thousands of Wheeling. The familiar yellow warbler, for example, gets no less than nine individual illustrations documenting the changes in its geographical, seasonal and sex, plus another eight smaller figures are shown in flight....
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