In celebration of the centennial of Peterson's birth comes a historic collaboration among renowned birding experts and artists to preserve and enhance his legacy. This new book combines the "Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Birds" and "Peterson Field Guide to Western Birds" into one volume, filled with accessible, concise information, and including ...
This time-tested guide to wild plants, released with a colorful new jacket, uses detailed illustrations to pinpoint key field marks for quick species identification.
At a time when interest in herbs and natural medicine has never been higher, the second edition of this essential guide shows how to identify more than 500 healing plants. 300+ color photos.
By popular demand, the revolutionary binding used on the 50th anniversary edition--the Flexibook--is back! This Flexi Peterson edition is the ultimate bird guide, inside and out, featuring birds east of the Rockies. Full color.
Descriptions of 380 species include size, weight, color, markings, number of teeth, habitat, habits, and comparisons with similar species. Superb color illustrations and line drawings show 230 animals. Range maps as well as photos of skulls and drawings of animal tracks, dens, nests, and burrows round out the wealth of information given in "the ...
This classic guide includes all species found in North America west of the 100th meridian and north of Mexico. With 165 color paintings showing more than 1,000 birds from 700 species, with summer and winter ranges, breeding grounds and other data on easy-to-read maps.
Detailed descriptions of insect orders, families, and many individual species are illustrated with 1,200 drawings and 142 superb color paintings. Illustrations - which use the unique Peterson Identification System to distinguish one insect from another - include size lines to show the actual length of each insect. A helpful glossary explains the ...
More than 1,000 species of mushrooms described in detail. Over 700 paintings and drawings reveal subtle field marks that cannot be captured into photographs.
Written and designed for the beginner, this book describes and illustrates the most common and interesting rocks and minerals, from simple sandstone to exotic gems. Illustrated with dozens of beautiful color photographs, it tells how these rocks and minerals formed and how to identify them--and includes tips on collecting. 175 color photographs, ...
On an April day in 1953, renowned American ornithologist, author, and illustrator Roger Tory Peterson met his British friend James Fisher, an authority on seabirds, in Newfoundland. There they began a strenuous and thrilling hundred-day field trip around the edge of the continent. Part travelogue, part epic natural adventure, their richly ...
Peterson First Guides are the first books the beginning naturalist needs. Condensed versions of the famous Peterson Field Guides, the First Guides focus on the animals, plants, and other natural things you are most likely to see. They make it fun to get into the field and easy to progress to the full-fledged Peterson Guides.
Peterson First Guides are the first books the beginning naturalist needs. Condensed versions of the famous Peterson Field Guides, the First Guides focus on the animals, plants, and other natural things you are most likely to see. They make it fun to get into the field and easy to progress to the full-fledged Peterson Guides.
This edition of Audubon's "Birds of America" displays his hand-coloured engravings in reproductions taken from the original plates of the Audubon Society's archival copy of the rare Double Elephant Folio. The book has been re-organized and annotated by Roger Tory Peterson.
The First Guide to Clouds and Weather is a pocket-size atlas of the sky. Beautiful color photos, simple diagrams, and a concise text illustrate and explain the myriad forms of clouds, why the sky is blue, what causes rainbows, and what makes it rain. The book also introduces environmental issues that affect the atmosphere, and shows how to ...
Owls, thrushes, woodpeckers, and the maddeningly confusing sparrows and warblers--the songs and calls of these and other Eastern US birds (85 in all) are presented in this three-CD set. Using mnemonic devices and descriptions, the authors make it easy to identify them all. Their presentation is sensibly organized around similar sounds and similar ...
Identifying birds that visit feeders is made easy with this at-a-glance guide, which includes range maps and descriptions of birds and foods that attract them. 34 color plates. 14 color photos.
Peterson's magnum opus, now in its fifth edition, created the trail for countless field guides to follow. This is a culmination of more than 60 years of observing, painting, and writing about the fine-feathered friends who take to the air. 153 photos.
An essential book for anyone who wants to move beyond the basics of birding, this field guide tells exactly how to solve the most challenging bird identification problems of North America. With a forward by Roger Tory Peterson.
Each guide employs the Peterson identification system which pinpoints key field marks for quick recognition of species and easy comparisons of confusing look-alikes. Provide up-to-date range information.
This newly designed field guide features descriptions of 524 species of butterflies. One hundred color photographs as well as 348 color range maps accompany the species descriptions. The 541 exquisite color paintings clearly show even the most minute field marks. Introductory chapters include information on butterfly gardening, habitats, and ...
This book - a visual guide to the structure and anatomy of birds - is one of the most heavily illustrated ornithology references ever written. A concise atlas of anatomy, it contains more than 200 specially prepared accurate and clear drawings that include material never illustrated before. The text is as informative as the drawings; written at a ...
With more than 700 color paintings arranged by families for quick comparison of similar species, and with detailed information on range, habitat, size, and voice, this field guide describes and illustrates 1,038 species of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and El Salvador.
This all-new edition includes information on more than 590 species, illustrated in lifelike positions in 44 beautiful color plates. 110 color photos. Line drawings & maps.
This updated volume of the bestselling Peterson Field Guide Series features the unique Peterson Identification System covering all birds of North America west of the 100th meridian and north of Mexico, shown in full color and described in detail. Summer and winter ranges, breeding grounds, and other special range data are shown on easy-to-read ...
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