The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds (The Crossley ID Guides)

The acclaimed book that has revolutionized birding and field guides "The Crossley ID Guide has turned the traditional field guide on its ear."Wall Street Journal "Deserves to be your essential resource for definitive species identification."Richmond TimesDispatch "The perfect book for beginning birders and even experts will marvel at its thoroughness."Pittsburgh PostGazette "A different kind of ID book a book much more useful and helpful."Minneapolis Star Tribune This stunningly illustrated book from acclaimed birder and photographer Richard Crossley revolutionizes field guide design by providing the first real-life approach to identification. Whether you are a beginner expert or anywhere in between The Crossley ID Guide will vastly improve your ability to identify birds. Unlike other guides which provide isolated individual photographs or illustrations this is the first book to feature large lifelike scenes for each species. These scenes640 in allare composed from more than 10 000 of the authors images showing birds in a wide range of viewsnear and far from different angles in various plumages and behaviors including flight and in the habitat in which they live. These beautiful compositions show how a birds appearance changes with distance and give equal emphasis to characteristics experts use to identify birds: size structure and shape behavior probability and color. This is the first book to convey all of these features visuallyin a single imageand to reinforce them with accurate concise text. Each scene provides a wealth of detailed visual information that invites and rewards careful study but the most important identification features can be grasped instantly by anyone. By making identification easier more accurate and more fun than ever before The Crossley ID Guide will completely redefine how its users look at birds. Essential for all birders it also promises to make new birders of many people who have despaired of using traditional guides. Revolutionary. This book changes field guide design to make you a better birder A picture says a thousand words. The most comprehensive guide: 640 stunning scenes created from 10 000 of the authors photographs Reality birding. Lifelike in-focus scenes show birds in their habitats from near and far and in all plumages and behaviors Teaching and reference. The first book to accurately portray all the key identification characteristics: size shape behavior probability and color Practice makes perfect. An interactive learning experience to sharpen and test field identification skills Bird like the experts. The first book to simplify birding and help you understand how to bird like the best An interactive websitewww.crossleybirds.comincludes expanded captions for the plates and species updates