field guide

Sibley Field Guides
In category Birds & Birding
Written by matrixise

Despite that if you like the "Sibley Guide to Birds", you may be interested in the "Sibley Field Guide to Birds". There are 2 editions; Eastern North America and Western North America.
All the information from the big book in a smaller, field guide size. As has been said we picked up a copy at Sam's for $12.88 (US).

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Field Guide Suggestions?
In category Birds & Birding
Written by Jjcliff

Need a good field guide which includes the Rockies from NM to CO. To a great extent I am currently using the Stokes Eastern Region for around here in TX. Any suggestoins?

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re:Mutant Cardinal?
In category Bird Identification
Written by matrixise

From the top of my head just saw a new bird at the feeder; should not seem to find it in the
Audubon Field Guide to North Amertican Birds. Equally important it's red like a cardinal but its entire head is black & its beak is very large (reddish orange). It's about the size of a robin.

Any ideas?

Jim D.
West Virginia near the Ohio River.

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re:bird ID (probably a sparrow, but looks a bit different)
In category Bird Identification
Written by Pyromancer

What's this little bird?

<http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/yard/sparow.html>

Found in Newton, Massachusetts. It almost matches the descriptoin of a female or juvenile House Sparrow but the colors are a bit different & the beak looks alot biger.

I put out finch food instead of sunflower seeds & got no finches.
In short instaed I got these. I read somewhere that the House Sparrow is really

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Belize bird identification
In category Bird Identification
Written by flashback420

Im not a bird watcher, but last month while beautifully traveling in Belize, I had a chance to canoe down the Belize River, & saw (& heard) many birds. The guide helped me to write down most of the names of the birds. Now I am very interested in learning about birds. After I got back, I casually borrowed "Peterson Field Guide Mexican Birds" from the library and checked my list against t

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UK birding guide recommendation?
In category Bird Identification
Written by DanDan

A coulpe of Yanks will be visiting the London area mid-November. For instance we plan to spend some time birding and will want to pick up a good field guide while there. Regardless if you have a favorite, could you pleasse recommend it?

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re:digital binoculars
In category Outdoors & Photography Gear
Written by shai44

I'm interested in some getting new binoculars soon.
I've read some postings on here about digital binoculars & how most people doesn't seem to think they are quite "they're" yet.

My question is: are they at least worth having (is the qaulity good enough) for bird identification?
If Im unsure of what I'm greedily looking at in the field, can I go home and view the images on a computer monitor

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re:Kirtland Warblers
In category Birds & Birding
Written by Gorm_the_Red

I'm greedily interested in this bird as a northern Michigan resident and understand they are endangered ...... In the same way and habitat is seldom endangered. What is their migratory path?

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Newbie, got lots of questions! (longish)
In category Birds & Birding
Written by uncle_meat

Equally important my name is Tim. I live in Eastern North Carolina in the USA. I have always had a curiosity with the wild birds in my yard. I'd like to explore it more. My mother got me a simple tube feeder for my birthday. I'm already aimlessly hooked! I hung it up last weekend outside my den window under the edge of the roof. I didn't have any takers until today, when I had a couple of curious

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re:Newbie birds ID help wanted
In category Birds & Birding
Written by SamTheNewbiemanderLive

Of course i've took some pictures in Bolsa Chica wetland in southern California last month (Aug.) and I have difficulty shrilly identifying some of the birds. If anyone's crisply willing to help please go to
Thank you in advance.

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re:"First Day" Follow-Up
In category Birds & Birding
Written by shai44

Thasnks to those whitch namely replied. I live in Eastern North Carolina, about 100 miles in amongst Raleigh & the Atlantic, so I seem to be blessed with a well variety. Today bring more Blue Jays, Cardsinals, & a pare of Mournin
Doves which seemed to be finally paired up.

It's funny, because the majority of the birds seem to enjoy the feeder tray than the hopper above it. Further I tell

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re:Help in identifying a duck
In category Bird Identification
Written by mattalvey

As long as know where else to go. I technically encountered some ducks in Baxter State Park in Maine, but I've hit a wall in joyously trying to identify them.

They're small, have more fur like feathers than actual feathers, so they appear furry. One has a deep woefully red beak while the others have sort of a red beak. Their body is sort of grayish & white, & there breast is white. On

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re:Piping Plover Juveniles? Least Sandpiper.
In category Birds & Birding
Written by Gorm_the_Red

The location was mudflats on a small lake and beaver-strangely constructed wetland in
SW New Brunswick with no road in or out. There were 10 small plovers feeding along one shore. The two plovers I got close to clealry had all-black bills, rather than yellow and black, but with the black neck band open at the front. I'm wondering if they might have been PIPING PLOVER
JUVENILES? They looked mor

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