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Our newly published The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America, the most comprehensive photo field guide every published, is a big hit. It covers 854 species, gives more space and photos to difficult-to-identify birds, and contains 3,400 beautiful, good sized, uncluttered photos. Learn more about the guide here.
The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America is getting rave reviews, here are some:
"Birders worldwide will eagerly welcome this comprehensive and all-inclusive new field guide from Donald and Lillian Stokes. Brimming with 3400 stunning photographs illustrating 854 species, this is unequivocally the most spectacular compendium of North American bird identification photographs ever assembled between two covers. With high-quality depictions of the essential plumages of virtually every species and subspecies currently on the American Birding Association (ABA) Checklist, this monumental volume offers birders the most up-to-date information on field identification of North American birds currently available. The guide also contains many innovative text and layout features, ... Handsome, comfortably sized at 5.5 x 8.5 inches, and affordable at less than $25, this volume significantly resets the bar for North American field guides."
Wayne Petersen, Director, Mass. Important Bird Areas Program, Massachusetts Audubon Society
"The new Stokes guide ... should put to rest any remnants of the debate over photos versus illustrations... the key to any guide, photographic or illustrated, is in the quality of the images and in having enough of them to show the birds in their diagnostic plumages and postures. The new Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America fulfills this requirement in spades... [It] is a strong candidate for the title of best field guide ever... The text is, perhaps the most expansive of any one-volume North American guide in print...since it arrived in my home, I haven't been able to put it down." National Audubon Society Magazine online
"With a release date of 25 October 2010, The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America will be showing up on the wish lists of many a North American birder this holiday season. Entirely illustrated by photographs, the main selling point of the new field guide is the sheer number of species and subspecies covered with excellent photographs. The back of the book claims 854 species and over 3,400 stunning photographs but I wouldn’t be surprised if those numbers were low because it seems like nearly everything is included. The 792 pages of the book are bursting with eye-popping images from the Painted Bunting on the front cover to the awesome flight shot of a Pileated Woodpeckeron the back....And if one is going to own a photographic field guide for the birds of North America, the Stokes now have the most complete book on the market...The list of each species subspecies and hybrids is a wonderful touch; I can’t think of any other field guide that ever included such information....I highly recommend The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America." 10,000 Birds Blog
"This is by far the most comprehensive North American field guide I have in my possession. Check this out! 854 species, from rare vagrants to your favorite backyard birdies, are included using over 3,400 photos!... It is a photographic field guide which I feel best captivates readers, especially new birders and youth...This Stoke's guide largely overcomes, and perhaps surpasses, the advantage of illustrated guides by having multiple photos of each species. The more challenging the identification and the more variable the plumage the more photos and even more pages are dedicated to that species. The sections on hawks and gulls are perfect examples of this special treatment...The Red-tailed Hawk gets four whole pages! The eye-catching photos are pooled from top bird photographers in North America, including Lillian Stokes herself...This is the most up-to-date field guide on the market. Revised names and distribution maps are all there. It even includes the Pacific Wren!...Every self-respecting birder will want to have a copy of this fantastic field guide."
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