Title: Sibley Birds West Pdf Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
Published Date: 2016
Page: 477
DAVID ALLEN SIBLEY is the author and illustrator of the series of successful guides to nature that bear his name, including the New York Times best seller The Sibley Guide to Birds. He has contributed art and articles to Smithsonian, Science, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Birding, BirdWatching, and North American Birds, and wrote and illustrated a syndicated column for The New York Times. He is the recipient of the Roger Tory Peterson Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Birding Association and the Linnaean Society of New York's Eisenmann Medal. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts.COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED: From renowned birder, illustrator, and New York Times best selling author David Sibley, the most authoritative guide to the birds of the West, in a portable format that is perfect for the field.Compact and comprehensive, this guide features 715 bird species, plus regional populations, found west of the Rocky Mountains. Entries include stunningly accurate illustrations--more than 5,046 in total--with descriptive captions pointing out the most important field marks. Each entry has been updated to include the most current information concerning frequency, nesting, behavior, food and feeding, voice description, and key identification features. Here too are more than 652 updated maps drawn from information contributed by 110 regional experts across the continent, and showing winter, summer, year-round, migration, and rare ranges.This new and improved edition includes: • Updated habitat, description, behavior, and conservation text for each species account and all family pages. • New and revised illustrations of species and regional forms. • New design featuring species accounts in columns, allowing for better comparison and more illustrations and text. • Current taxonomic order and up-to-date common names. • All maps revised to reflect the most current range information. • More species and rarities included.
Avoid. Returning to Amazon I bought this thinking it was going to be an improved and updated edition to my 2003 copy of The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America. As soon as I opened it I saw trouble. My eyes immediately went to the range map--which was of the Eastern US! Much preferred the illustrations of parts of birds along with range map on fly leaves. The new edition--in addition of having the wrong range map--has keys to species and group accounts squeezed into space with a font too small for easy reading. I also do not like the glossy paper. Normally I would sit and compare editions side by side but I am not going to bother since its defects are so enormous to me that keeping it as a useful guide is not an option. If one takes only one field guide for a day or year of birding my choice would be National Geographic's, which has recently come out with its 7th edition that includes the advancement in DNA to properly classify birds. In the car I also carrying Sibley's big guide for comparison.First impression of the 2nd edition Western N.A. guide I received my copy this morning and can only comment on one aspect of the guide at this time. First let me say that I have a "newer" version of the original 2002 guide. Friends with the original 2002 edition have a handy "quick finder" index in the inside of the front cover. Not only is the new 2nd edition guide missing this index, but it also moved the quick index feature (swallows, owls, finches, etc.) from the upper outside corner of each page to the lower inside edges and in much smaller typeface. As a 3 1/2 year birder, I should know my taxonomy structure better, and I'm sure I will get used to this new edition. (edited after being shown where the "quick index" feather had been moved)An invaluable resource in the field I ordered this book the day after I was hired to survey birds in National Park properties through out the Chihuahuan Desert. The second edition of "Birds West" is the first Sibley publication I've owned and I can not deny it has been a spectacular investment in the field. Up until this point I have relied on National Geographic's field guide to Western Birds and have been referencing both through out the season. What sets Sibley apart is not necessarily his artwork (which is exceptional regardless), but his knack for providing extraordinarily helpful information in a brief format.The Nat Geo guide attempts to cram visual, behavioral, and habitat information into a small paragraph which allows maximal room for illustration. Sibley, on the other hand, has developed a format geared to maximize the recognition of diagnostic traits in the field. Each section is prefaced with a reference page showing each species, grouped into genus, side by side. This really helps you recognize the shared traits of a genus which can make all the difference when you're in a location with 6 wren species coming from 6 different genus. On the individual pages, Sibley gives more than adequate descriptions of the habitat you're likely to find each bird in and his comprehensive illustrations and sketches high light even the least expected diagnostic features. Thanks to this I was able to initially ID a Black-chinned Hummer from its display flight pattern alone.The only short-coming of this regional field guide is a trivial one unique to the situation I find myself in. Surveying areas that fall right on the border that divides Sibley's Western guide from his Eastern, he has chosen to exclude some rarities, like the Great Kiskadee and Ringed Kingfisher, that would've been helpful. These are also excluded from my Nat Geo guide, however I have no doubt Sibley has included them in his comprehensive field guide. For the price, artwork, and the quality and breadth of information provided, this is definitely the book I'd recommend highest to any serious birder looking to gain familiarity with Western species.
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