Birds of the New York area

Birds of the New York area by Bull, John. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780486232225.

If you are a birdwatcher who operates within a 35 or 40 mile radius of Manhattan, this is a book that you should have not just on your shelves, but at your elbow, no matter what other bird books you already have. It is the only modern book of its sort, a complete compendium of information for New York City; Putnam, Orange, Westchester, and Rockland Counties in New York State; Northern and Central New Jersey to the Delaware River; Southern Connecticut and Western long Island. Within this New York City area there have been established 404 birds on the Regular List, 8 on the Escape List, and another 19 on the Hypothetical List. These include birds of all sorts-migrants, visitants, occasional accidentals, and breeding birds-from march birds to passerines, birds of prey to sparrows. For each of these 431 birds (plus several extinct birds) Mr. Bull supplies an incredible amount of precise birdwatching information: range, status, changes in status, exact sighting locations with precise dates, extreme date, specimen data, flock information, exact breeding sites, and a whole encyclopedia of similar information. Many birds are covered historically or in terms of their life cycles over several pages.