The 5 Best Audubon Guides (2023 reviews)

The jonathan alderfer audubon guide is long-lasting, rigid and fits well with your daily purpose like a dream. An index on the inside back cover makes finding birds quick if you know what species and group you are seeing. It is perfect guide to complete your set, with new angles, images, and info. It is easy to use and wonderfully illustrated, and it satisfies both the beginner and the expert.

The book is compact, small enough to easily fit in a backpack without adding too much weight, easy to pull out and look through. The size is small enough to take with you and to fit into a pouch/bag for carrying. It is excellent for beginners and offers good field marks for identification. The indentations on the side, and the quick index inside the back cover are immensely useful for quickly opening the book to the right page.

Why We Like This:

Definitely small enough to take with you on trips
Small and lightweight so you can carry along on your adventure
Field-identifiable subspecies and subspecies groups are clearly labeled and treated in often impressive detail

Best For travel: Roger Tory Peterson Audubon Guide

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The roger tory peterson audubon guide should be able to handle its purpose and duties with ease. There are many field guide options, and every birder has a favorite. It is perfect for travel in north america. The illustrations are fairly large, with a facing page written description and range map. It is great reference for bird watchers and photographers. The hand drawn pictures of the birds are beautiful and have identifying marks and other characteristics clearly defined.

This one helps you identify the bird by asking a few questions and then presents a series of likely birds for you to consider. The binding and covers are more substantial. It is more of a laminated soft cover. It will make you a better birder.

Why We Like This:

Perfect for beginners and experienced birders alike
Easy to find birds, their wing, body and beak structure
Delivers what they promise

Best For New mushroom hunters: National Audubon Society Comprehensive Field Guide

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If you often find yourself scrambling for convenient and suitable guide, national audubon society comprehensive field guide is your end point. The National Audubon Society's authoritative field guide to North American fungi is a must have for anyone, amateur or professional, who is interested in identifying mushrooms in the field. There is no all-in-one mushroom book, but this one is the backbone of any mushroom identification library. It’s very thorough and easy to carry while searching for the yummy shrooms you get to harvest.

These audubon books are great and give you lots of information and great pictures. The glossy, high-quality plates are arranged systematically and very clearly refer the user to the pertinent comprehensive text descriptions. The book takes you to specific high-quality color pictures, where you then identify the species. It is perfect for your day pack or tote bag. It’s of importance to be assured of accuracy in identification especially if one is foraging edible or medicinal varieties.

Why We Like This:

Excellent for a mycologist and fungi enthusiast
A good companion for traveling and identifying wild mushrooms
Clear photos and text helps determine the species and yheir potability
Beautiful photos, relevant information, and logical layout

Best For learning The night sky: Terence Dickinson Audubon Guide

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The terence dickinson audubon guide is capable of outshining several other guide featured in this list in overall features for the price point. This book has great information for curious people that want to learn and explore the sky with their eyes or a telescope. There are sky maps for each season, one with a photo and one plotted, that show you the various stars and constellations and how to locate certain things. The photographs and illustrations in this book are absolutely stunning. They are easy to follow, big enough to understand, easy enough for the novice yet complicated enough for someone who knows some already.

There's a lot of material to absorb, but find it very easy to read. It will make you an excellent stargazer. The binding is very sturdy and lies very conveniently flat. The images make this book an excellent coffee table book and conversation starter.

Why We Like This:

Comprehensive & enlightening book for first time stargazers
Has recommendations on first telescopes and cameras
Guided "go-to" telescopes which require no knowledge of the sky
Very good for someone just acquiring an interest in astronomy and astrophotography

Best For Nature lover: National Audubon Society Audubon Guide

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Next on the list, we've got yet another guide that manages to win our hearts. It's the national audubon society audubon guide and it's widely considered as one of the best convenient guide you can buy. This book has so many birds, snakes, lizards. The Audubon guide is a wonderful, generously illustrated, comprehensive guide and includes animals and birds in addition to trees and other plant life. The pictures are beautiful and it does cover a lot of ground for its short length. It is a great guide to carry along on outings.

This is a smaller sized paper back book about 8-9" long and bout 4" wide, very portable. The size is nice for hikes, and it's not heavy. The weekend hiker or boater, and the home gardener will equally appreciate the relative size of this book, as it can be easily thrown into a backpack for easy reference. It is a gift well-liked and used by the receiver.

Why We Like This:

Excellent field guide, full of beautiful pictures and accurate information
A must-have for the southern outdoorsman
Wide range of birds, accurate information
A must for anyone going outdoors in the south