The Crossley Id Guide: Eastern Birds
10 best books like The Crossley Id Guide: Eastern Birds (Richard Crossley): Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America, The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America, National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear, Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, Birds of North America
| Author | Kenn Kaufman |
| ISBN | 0618709401 |
At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe not all that unusual a thing to do in the seventies, but what Kenn was searching for was a little different:...
| Author | Scott Weidensaul |
| ISBN | 0865475911 |
Bird migration is the world's only true unifying natural phenomenon, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems fail to do. Scott Weidensaul follows awesome kettles of hawks over the Mexican coastal plains, bar-tailed godwits that hitchhike on gale winds 7,000...
A guidebook certainly to find its lofty place within my other treasures. My good friend in Florida remarked yesterday, "Birds offer free entertainment", and I could not agree more. A little late in life for me to find a new interest in identifying birds, but owning a cabin in northern Michigan and a small...
| Author | David Allen Sibley |
| ISBN | 0679451218 |
The Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the new standard of excellence in bird identification guides, covering more than 810 North American birds in amazing detail. Now comes a new portable guide from David Sibley that every birder will want to carry into the field. Compact and comprehensive,...
| Author | National Geographic Society |
| ISBN | 0792268776 |
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America continues to be the most sought-after, the most authoritative, and the easiest to access field guide to birds on the market. Now in its 4th Edition, revisions include 250 updated range maps, and new classification information National...
K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
| Author | Tyler Kepner |
| ISBN | 1984883291 |
From
The New York Times
baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today
The baseball...
| Author | Kenn Kaufman |
| ISBN | 0547248326 |
Birders can memorize hundreds of details and still not be able to identify birds if they don’t really understand what’s in front of them.Today birders have access to almost too much information, and their attempts to identify birds can be drowned out by excess detail. The all-new Kaufman Field...
| Author | Scott Weidensaul |
| ISBN | 0151012474 |
From the moment Europeans arrived in North America, they were awestruck by a continent awash with birds—great flocks of wild pigeons, prairies teeming with grouse, woodlands alive with brilliantly colored songbirds. Of a Feather traces the colorful origins of American birding: the frontier...
| Author | Anna Quindlen |
| ISBN | 1400069343 |
In this irresistible memoir, the #1 New York Times bestselling author writes about her life and the lives of women today, looking back and ahead - and celebrating it all - as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all that stuff in our closets, and more.
It's odd when...
| Author | Kenn Kaufman |
| ISBN | 0395964644 |
About myself: I've been birding for all of three months, not really taking walks for the purpose of birding or making IDs until this past Christmas Bird Count. So I imagine I fall right in the target demographic for this work. My impression of the several times I've built a stack of several guides to look...
