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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of the United States and Canada—East, 2nd Edition

Author Ted Floyd
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5.45"W x 8"H x 0.81"D   | 21 oz | 24 per carton
On sale Feb 04, 2025 | 448 Pages | 9781426222771

An entirely updated edition of the classic bestselling regional bird field guide from National Geographic, covering the U.S. and Canada east of the Rockies.

Provides ID information, data-driven maps, and annotated illustrations of more than 800 bird species.


Backyard beginners and dedicated life-listers alike will love the expanded new edition of this trusted guide to the birds of eastern United States and Canada. With new text, revised art, and data-derived range maps, this valuable resource complements the apps and online resources used by birders today.

Groundbreaking new features join tried-and-true traditions. This field guide offers:

  • More pages, more species than the first edition
  • More than 800 species, including 586 likely to be observed and 240 that occur more rarely
  • Organized according to current taxonomy
  • Informative notes explaining evolution, etymology, and more
  • User-friendly format with explanatory text on the left and matching annotated art on the right
  • Easy-to-carry paperback with thumb tabs and a visual index
  • All-new maps based on crowd-sourced data from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's eBird, the world's top database of bird observations

All told, this second edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of the United States and Canada—East (2nd edition) is a must-have guide for birders young and old, avid and beginner.
Ted Floyd is the longtime editor of Birding magazine, the award-winning
flagship publication of the American Birding Association (ABA). He has written five books, including Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America and How to Know the Birds, and more than 200 articles, technical papers, and book chapters on birds and nature. He is a frequent speaker at bird festivals and ornithological society conferences worldwide and in 2022 received the ABA Award for Distinguished Service.
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"The text overall is excellent—reflecting Ted Floyd’s roots as a birder and a bird writer. It is highly readable, uses as few scientific terms as possible without losing meaning, and is often fun to read. . . . The text is also meticulously cross-referenced, meaning that if a species is compared to another species, the page number of that bird’s description is given. This is a level of detail I seldom see in field guides." — Donna Lynn Schulman, 10,000 Birds

About

An entirely updated edition of the classic bestselling regional bird field guide from National Geographic, covering the U.S. and Canada east of the Rockies.

Provides ID information, data-driven maps, and annotated illustrations of more than 800 bird species.


Backyard beginners and dedicated life-listers alike will love the expanded new edition of this trusted guide to the birds of eastern United States and Canada. With new text, revised art, and data-derived range maps, this valuable resource complements the apps and online resources used by birders today.

Groundbreaking new features join tried-and-true traditions. This field guide offers:

  • More pages, more species than the first edition
  • More than 800 species, including 586 likely to be observed and 240 that occur more rarely
  • Organized according to current taxonomy
  • Informative notes explaining evolution, etymology, and more
  • User-friendly format with explanatory text on the left and matching annotated art on the right
  • Easy-to-carry paperback with thumb tabs and a visual index
  • All-new maps based on crowd-sourced data from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's eBird, the world's top database of bird observations

All told, this second edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of the United States and Canada—East (2nd edition) is a must-have guide for birders young and old, avid and beginner.

Creators

Ted Floyd is the longtime editor of Birding magazine, the award-winning
flagship publication of the American Birding Association (ABA). He has written five books, including Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America and How to Know the Birds, and more than 200 articles, technical papers, and book chapters on birds and nature. He is a frequent speaker at bird festivals and ornithological society conferences worldwide and in 2022 received the ABA Award for Distinguished Service.

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Praise

"The text overall is excellent—reflecting Ted Floyd’s roots as a birder and a bird writer. It is highly readable, uses as few scientific terms as possible without losing meaning, and is often fun to read. . . . The text is also meticulously cross-referenced, meaning that if a species is compared to another species, the page number of that bird’s description is given. This is a level of detail I seldom see in field guides." — Donna Lynn Schulman, 10,000 Birds
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