Yo, Mr. Sutton

Ryan Werden

Ryan Werden

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I thought that I read not all that long ago, a post from you on a book you use for NA bird identification. I was trying to find a good book for birds of NA, using it for identification, habitat info, migration patterns, plumage, etc. I did a search but came up blank. Can you repost that book or make any recommendations?

Thanks in advance.
Ryan
 
WATERFOWL OF THE WORLD by Madge and Burn.....

It covers all Ducks, Geese and Swans of the World not just North American species...

All color plates show "juvenile and eclipese plummage which is helpful". its probably weakest in the "range" secion and it won't give you any data on "migration".

Its not perfect but its the best "single volume" waterfolw book that I know of.

There's one on E-Bay right now if you ever visit that site...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Waterfowl-by-Hilary-Burn-Steve-Madge-1988_W0QQitemZ250086997073QQihZ015QQcategoryZ378QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item250086997073

Steve

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Ryan, Another book to look for

The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds by John K. Terres
Wings books Random House

They orginally asked $75 but you should be able to pick one up for half that.
 
Ryan the other book you might be thinking of is Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America by Frank C. Bellrose. It is the text book most Universities use for their waterfowl classes.
 
It depends what you really want, species-specific information, or a general book. Both books already mentioned are good, and there are a few others. Paul Johnsgard authored "Waterfowl of North America" in 1975, and "Waterfowl of the World" in 1978. If you're interested in Wood ducks, there's a book on wood ducks by Frank Bellrose. For stifftails, there's the book "Ruddy ducks and other stifftails" by Johnsgard and Carbonell. There are 2 books, one on non-breeding biology and 1 on breeding biology which are chapters by invited authors which are good literature reviews. I am currently reviewing "Waterfowl Ecology and Management" second edition by Baldassarre and Bolen. It looks to be a pretty good review (I like this edition better than the first). For species-specific information, I prefer the species accounts in "The Birds of North America." A complete set is outragously expensive, but single accounts are reasonable and excellent reviews of published information.

Clint
 
It depends what you really want, species-specific information, or a general book. Both books already mentioned are good, and there are a few others. Paul Johnsgard authored "Waterfowl of North America" in 1975, and "Waterfowl of the World" in 1978. If you're interested in Wood ducks, there's a book on wood ducks by Frank Bellrose. For stifftails, there's the book "Ruddy ducks and other stifftails" by Johnsgard and Carbonell. There are 2 books, one on non-breeding biology and 1 on breeding biology which are chapters by invited authors which are good literature reviews. I am currently reviewing "Waterfowl Ecology and Management" second edition by Baldassarre and Bolen. It looks to be a pretty good review (I like this edition better than the first). For species-specific information, I prefer the species accounts in "The Birds of North America." A complete set is outragously expensive, but single accounts are reasonable and excellent reviews of published information.

Clint
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Not looking for species specific, more along the lines of North American birds. At this point I would prefer to have a single book with as much info as possible on each bird. I can appreciate that's a bit general but I think most of the information I'm interested in could be one 'does it all' book. One book on a single species is likely more detail than I'm interested in on one bird.

Thanks,
Ryan

Thanks,
Ryan
 
I won the bid Steve. Thanks again for the recommendation and the ebay link. Now I have something to look forward to in the mail. Now don't get me wrong, I love the bills and junk mail but this is a little bit better.

Ryan
 
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