Eastern Backyard Birds: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Urban Species

by James Kavanagh, Raymond Leung (Illustrator)

Overview

Eastern Backyard Birds is the ideal reference guide for bird lovers and nature enthusiasts living in the eastern USA (east of the 100th Meridian). This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar species and includes information on attracting, feeding and creating safe habitats for birds to rest and nest. Laminated for durability, this lightweight, pocket-sized folding guide is an excellent source of portable information for both novice and expert birdwatchers alike. Made in the USA.www.waterfordpress.com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781583550748
Publisher:	Waterford Press Ltd.
Publication date:	07/25/2017
Series:	Wildlife and Nature Identification
Pages:	12
Sales rank:	658,602
Product dimensions:	4.28(w) x 8.24(h) x 0.10(d)
Age Range:	10 Years

About the Author

Zoologist Jim Kavanagh has made a career out of introducing novices to plants, animals, the sciences and world cultures. In addition to creating over 500 simplified nature guides, he has also authored guides to languages, cities and outdoor skills. An avid traveler and backpacker, Kavanagh’s path has taken him around the world to many remote destinations including the upper Amazon, Africa, Australia, and the Arctic Circle (and this is just the As). He is also the author of a series of state-specific guides to common species and natural attractions and a children's book on evolution.

Editorial Reviews

You can take your Peterson, Sibley and Kaufman. Keep Dunne on the shelf. National Geographic, too. If the book weighs more than the binocular, beginners just won’t bite. So for our friends just starting to bird – and we mean those birding within 50 feet of their back window – we’re giving them a started guide they can handle. We love the “don’t overwhelm me” feel of these new pocket books from Waterford Press. These folding guides provide folds of laminated full-color.

Birding Business Magazine

Has this ever happened to you? You’re out in a field or in the forest or on a stream and a bird flashes by. You get a good look at it, note its most prominent features, but you’re not sure what it is. You could look it up in a bird book, but who carries a bird book a field when the whole idea is to travel as light as possible? Now Waterford Press has come up with something that solves the problem: a pocket-sized bird guide that is four inches wide, 8 ¼” inches long and flat as yesterday’s beer.

Chicago Press & Sun-Bulletin