A Guide to Field Identification
BIRDS of North America
by Chandler S. Robbins, Bertel Brunn, & Herbert S. Zim
Illustrated by Arthur Singer
Golden Press (c)1983
ISBN 0-307-33656-5. pp360. PB.
My favorite field guide to use for the following reasons; text & pictures & range maps are on facing pages, the bird illustrations are excellent, covers the entire North American continent, is compact, reasonably priced, readily available in bookstores. Can't beat it. It's the birding field guide I recommend.
A Guide to Field Identification
BIRDS of North America
by Chandler S. Robbins, Bertel Brunn, & Herbert S. Zim
Illustrated by Arthur Singer
Golden Press (c)1966
pp340. HB & SB.
A Field Guide to the BIRDS East of the Rockies
The Peterson Field Guide Series, (c)1980 Fourth Edition
The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American BIRDS by John K. Terres.
ISBN 0-517-03288-0. pp1109. HB. Very informative.
A Natural History of American Birds of Eastern and Central North America
by Edward Howe Forbush & John Bichard May
96 full color plates of illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Allan Brooks & Roger Tory Peterson.
Bramhall House. 552 pages of text. HB.
BIRDS of Western Pennsylvania by W. E. Clyde Todd
University of Pittsburgh Press 1940. HB
710 pages of text. 22 color plates illustrating 118 species from original drawings by George Miksch Sutton.
Bought at a Flea Market for $30 Sept 1995, in good condition.
The print run for BIRDS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA by W.E. Clyde Todd was
2,500 books printed and bound, 1,000 sheets printed and stored for later
binding, and 75 printed as overrun for a total of 3,575.
Audubon's Birds of North America, The Complete 500 Paintings
The Wellfleet Press. pp512.
Audubon's Birds of North America, Containing All of the Original Plates Reprinted from the First Royal Octavo Edition.
Thunder Bay Press. (c)1994. ISBN 1-57145-012-2. pp532.
Complete Field Guide to American Wildlife: East, Central & North
by Henry Collins, Jr.
Harper & Row (c)1959
pp683. HB.
Complete Field Guide to American Wildlife: Eastern Edition
Harper & Row (c)1981
ISBN 0-06-181163-7. pp715. SB.
The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Eastern & Western Regions
by John Bull & John Farrand Jr. (c)1977
ISBN 0-394-41405-5, pp775, SB, Eastern. ISBN 0-394-41410-1, 855 pages, SB, Western.
A Field Guide to Birds in Europe and North America
(c)1975 Artia, Prague. English version published 1975 by Cathay Books
ISBN 0-904644-10-3. pp343. 850 full color pictures. HB. Printed in Czechoslovakia.
Field Guide to the Birds of North America
National Geographic Society, 2nd Edition (c)1987
pp464. PB.
American Bird Conservancy's Field Guide; All the BIRDS of North America
HarperPerennial (c)1997
ISBN 0-06-273028-2. pp344+ SB.
Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania
Daniel W. Brauning, Editor; University of Pittsburgh Press (c)1992
ISBN 0-8229-3692-5. pp484. HB.
The Birdwatcher's Companion
An Encyclopedic Handbook of North American Birdlife
Christopher Leahy
(c)1982 Portland House
ISBN 0-517-18872-4. pp917. PB. Very informative.
Book of North American Birds
Readers Digest (c)1990
ISBN 0-895-77351-1. pp576. HB. Nearly 600 large, detailed, full-color paintings.
Birds of North America
(c)1936 by Garden City Publishing Company, Inc.
With 106 plates in full color from original paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
777+ pages. HB.
BIRDS: Their Life, Their Ways, Their World
Illustrations by Ad Cameron
Reader's Digest (c)1979
ISBN 0-89577-065-2. pp411. HB.
The Birds Around Us A full-color guide to attracting, observing, identifying, and photographing birds.
Ortho Books. (c)1996. pp352.
Our Amazing Birds
The Little Known Facts About Their Private Lives
Odd And Interesting Data About 102 Birds
By Robert S. Lemmon
Paintings by Don R. Eckelberry
(c)1952 By The Literary Guild Of America, Inc. HB. pp239.
Warblers of the Americas
An Identification Guide
by Jon Curson, David Quinn and David Beadle
Houghton Mifflin (c)1994
ISBN 0-395-70998-9. pp252. HB.
116 Warblers illustrated in plates, with as many different plumages and geographical races possible shown. Example: Chestnut-sided Warbler shows a)Adult male breeding, b)Adult female breeding, c)Dull first-year breeding, d)Adult male non-breeding, e)First-year male non-breeding, f)First-year female non-breeding. Each species has a range map in colored season ranges, Identication, Description, Geographical Variation, Voice, Habitat and Habits, Breeding, Status and Distribution, Movements, Moult, Skull, Measurements (Wing, Tail, Bill, Tarsus, Weight).