A revolution in birding and field guides This stunningly illustrated book from acclaimed birder and photographer Richard Crossley revolutionizes field guide design by providing the first real-life approach to identification.
The first book to simplify birding and help you understand how to bird like the bestAn interactive website--www.crossleybirds.com--includes expanded captions for the plates and species updates-- Avian Review.
An interactive learning experience to sharpen and test field identification skillsBird like the experts.
The first book to accurately portray all the key identification characteristics: size, shape, behavior, probability, and colorPractice makes perfect.
Lifelike in-focus scenes show Birds in their habitats, from near and far, and in all plumages and behaviorsTeaching and reference.
The most comprehensive Guide: 640 stunning scenes created from 10,000 of the author\'s photographsReality birding.
This book changes field guide design to make you a better birderA picture says a thousand words.
Revolutionary.
Essential for all birders, it also promises to make new birders of many people who have despaired of using traditional guides.
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.
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.
This is the first book to convey all of these features visually--in a single image--and to reinforce them with accurate, concise text.
These beautiful compositions show how a bird\'s appearance changes with distance, and give equal emphasis to characteristics experts use to identify birds: size, structure and shape, behavior, probability, and color.
These scenes--640 in all--are composed from more than 10,000 of the author\'s images showing Birds in a wide range of views--near and far, from different angles, in various plumages and behaviors, including flight, and in the habitat in which they live.
Unlike other guides, which provide isolated individual photographs or illustrations, this is the first book to feature large, lifelike scenes for each species.
Whether you are a beginner, expert, or anywhere in between, The Crossley ID Guide will vastly improve your ability to identify birds.
A revolution in birding and field guides This stunningly illustrated book from acclaimed birder and photographer Richard Crossley revolutionizes field guide design by providing the first real-life approach to identification
