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Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Eastern Region (Stokes Field Guides)
by Donald Stokes, Lillian Stokes
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (1996-01-29)
ISBN: 0316818097
Brand: Stokes
EAN: 9780316818094
Dewey Decimal #: 598.2974
Binding/Media: Paperback - 496 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: T091916-8130
Condition: Very Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The easiest-to-use and most comprehensive field guide to North American birds-from the country's preeminent writers on birds and nature Drawing on more than twenty years' experience as bird and wildlife experts, Donald and Lillian Stokes have produced field guides that are factually, visually, and organizationally superior to any other books you can buy. You'll find: * All the identification information on a single page-color photographs, range map, and detailed description. No more fumbling to match photos with text! * For fast reference-a compact alphabetical index inside the front and back covers. * More than 900 high-resolution color identification photographs. * An illustrated Quick Guide to the most common backyard and feeder birds. * Convenient colored tabs keyed to each bird group. * Concise and comprehensive text, with information on habitat; plumage variation; feeding, nesting, and mating behavior; bird feeder proclivity; and-for the first time in any guide-population trends and conservation status.
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Customer Reviews
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The Best of the Rest!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-08-02
I am a beginner at bird watching and so I needed clear colored photographs and detailed descriptions of each bird. I had found a bird in our dirt driveway that didn't seem to fit any of the descriptions I saw in other books. I had taken movie pictures of the bird up close and it allowed me to even hold it. I took digital photos of the bird as well. I asked neighbors and they guessed it was a warbler or a grosse beak. It's beak was the unusual part of it. It was crooked. Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Western Region, had the answer to question. The question bothered me until I found the correct answer in this detailed book. I LOVE DETAILS!!! Thank you so very much for helping my mind rest at ease with the correct answer. The bird is a female red headed Crossbill.
Again Thank You,
Lucinda M. Craven
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Best Bird Book We Have
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-12-08
We have at least four other bird books and this is the one we always turn to (NOTE: we don't have the Sibley's that I've also heard is really good, so can't compare it to that). It's easier to find birds in, has the range maps right on the same page as the photo and other information (one of my pet peeves with some other books is that information is spread over several pages). Also tells if the bird is likely to be at your birdfeeder!
You know it has to be good if we already owned four other bird books, saw this one at a friend's house, and came home and ordered it!
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Thank you
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-06-30
0 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I received product quickly. I was very happy with the book. Thank you
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Stokes Feild Guide to the Birds
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-06-23
Stokes Guide to the Birds - Colored photos nice and clear - much better than the drawings found in other guides. Book was received in exactly the condition described and in a reasonable length of time.
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very poor editing
Rating  (1)
Date: 2009-06-15
0 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I'm really disappointed in this book. I ordered it to get more acquainted with the birds of Vermont, but there are page after page about birds that are nowhere near the Eastern US. There are many pages of western birds and Mexican birds in this book with ranges nowhere close to the Eastern US, so the title is completely inappropriate. Last time I'll order a field guide online.
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