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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Western North America
from National Geographic

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• New standard in birding field guides!
  Well - I wrote an in-depth review and this site or IE lost it. So, here is the short version.
  Simply a new standard in birding field guides! Will absolutely replace all other field guides I might take with me out into the field while birding in NA. The new features are outstanding, useful, and thoughtfully designed.
  The construction quality of the book is outstanding. Paper and covers of high quality.
  Combines all the best features (and then some) from all the best field guides.
  Must... more info

• Some great strides forward, some strides backward
  Comparison to the previous 5th edition:
  The good: Extensive annotations have been added to the plates. This vastly increases the amount of information in the book and corrects one of the major flaws of earlier editions which was a failure to actually mention the critical field marks. A huge improvement (although the type can get small and dense at times)
  The bad.
  1) The new split editions are about the same size as the old combined version. Since this volume covers 905 species and the full... more info

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