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Sibley's Birding Basics: How to Identify Birds, Using the Clues in Feathers, Habitats, Behaviors, and Sounds

by David Allen Sibley · 2002

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David Sibley, America's premier birder an best-known bird artist, takes a new direction - in Sibley's Birding Basicshe is concerned not so much with species as with the general characteristics that influence the appearance of all birds and thus give us the clues to their identity.

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To create this guide, avid Sibley thought through all the skills that enable himto identify a bird in the few instants it is visible to him. Now he hares that information, integrating an explanation for the identification process with many painted and drawn images of details (such as a feather) or concepts.

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science
Themes
naturebirdsanimals
Audience
adult

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