All the Birds of North America |
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| Author:
| Griggs, Jack |
| ISBN: | 978-0-06-052770-9 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2002 |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers
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| Imprint: | Collins Reference |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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A Surer, Faster, Easier Way to Identify Birds
At last, a guide that successfully organizes birds by field-recognizable features for quick identification. For lack of a better method, bird guides have traditionally placed birds in evolutionary sequence, resulting in birding's classic Catch-22 -- you must recognize an unknown bird and know its place in the sequence before you can took it up!
All the Birds arranges species by their feeding adaptations -- features that...
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A Surer, Faster, Easier Way to Identify Birds
At last, a guide that successfully organizes birds by field-recognizable features for quick identification. For lack of a better method, bird guides have traditionally placed birds in evolutionary sequence, resulting in birding's classic Catch-22 -- you must recognize an unknown bird and know its place in the sequence before you can took it up!
All the Birds arranges species by their feeding adaptations -- features that are easily observed. How a bird feeds largely determines its form. It's nature's way of organizing species to fit ecological niches. The powerful bills and tree-climbing habits of woodpeckers, for instance, are prominent feeding adaptations. Recognizing birds' adaptations for feeding is the natural, no-nonsense way to identify; learn, and understand them.