The 8 Best Guides To Bird watch (2023 reviews)

Laura Erickson line of guide come in a pretty wide variety of styles, so you can definitely find one that suits your individual preferences and needs. Indeed, the easiest place to watch birds is right at home, especially if you have a good assortment of native trees and shrubs, a bird feeder, and a birdbath. This is an excellent pocket guide for the field. It is coauthored by laura erikson, a true "birder" and an exceptional photographer.

The Field Guide, it's larger and heavier and not as easy to carry, but has more birds in it, including the red headed woodpecker. Being small, it does not have as much detail as the larger guide, nor does it include as many birds, but its keys and thumbnail descriptions are excellent. It’s small enough to fit in a coat pocket or small bag.

Why We Like This:

Informative and small enough for a purse or backpack
New and hot release

Best For beginner: Jonathan Alderfer Guide To Bird watch

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The jonathan alderfer guide to bird watch's material feels more premium than its price would suggest. This national geographic field guide has wonderful color photos of each bird making identification much easier. There are range maps on the same page as each species, and the maps are easy to read. The book is compact, small enough to easily fit in a backpack without adding too much weight, easy to pull out and look through and look through.

The indentations in the side, and the quick index inside the back cover are immensely useful for quickly opening the book to the right page. The facing-page texts offer further identification strategies, voice descriptions, and a statement of range and abundance. These are clear and informative, and they are accompanied by text and pointers that indicate identification keys. It would make a great gift for anyone interested in birds.

This is a hefty book with beautiful artwork and good descriptors on how to identify the birds.

Why We Like This:

Excellent field guide, highly recommend for both backyard birding or birding trips
Good investment for long term

Best For Pocket Field Guide: Donald Stokes Guide To Bird watch

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Next on the list, we've got yet another guide that manages to win our hearts. It's the donald stokes guide to bird watch and it's widely considered as one of the best convenient guide you can buy. This book explains where is the natural habitat of each bird, pictures of both the male and the female description of their bird calls, and what each bird prefers to eat. It offers tips on building bird baths and houses. It's thumbnailed by dominant bird color for easy identification. The pictures mostly contain Male and Female coloring, and occasionally Winter and Summer coloring. It has an unusual bird organization pattern.

There is a color coding system that is easy to use and a separate page for each male and female species, and include the most common birds in the area. The color pages are very useful when looking at a bird so you can compare to make sure you are looking at the right one. It can easily fit into a pocket and is light weight.

Why We Like This:

Great illustrations, well organized by bird color
Helps you to learn about wild birds in eastern states particularly
Great little book for backyard bird identification

Best For Eastern half Of North America: Jon L Dunn Guide To Bird watch

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The jon l dunn guide to bird watch's high-end materials makes sure that it ages well with use. This is a great bird book. There are several different pics of each bird, the range map is on the same page as the bird and there are easy thumb tabs on the binding for quickly getting to a section. Sibley also paints every bird perched in flight with upper and lower feather views. The illustrations are very accurate and show all the details necessary for visual ID.

This feature alone will help even newcomers to locate many birds with ease, even tho this guide might be considered advanced. It’s easy for older eyes for reading. The art is bright and crisp, and the text adds very helpful information for identifying your bird in question. They said this was very easy to read and well organized compared to the more thorough (and much smaller writing) Audubon guide.

Why We Like This:

Easy to use, easy to carry, and full of interesting details
Flight drawings and silhouettes for many birds
One of the new comers and featured product

Best For An EX boy Scout: Matt Kracht Guide To Bird watch

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Best part: matt kracht guide to bird watch costs comparatively low and it is available to ship in 24 hours. If you are a bird watcher up for clever humor (and a few swear words) then this book is for you. It looks like a regular pocket birdwatching book, but definitely is a lot funnier. It's hilariously written and informative at the same time. There's a copious amount of content and each page is a separate entry on a different birb, so it can be consumed as fast or as slow as desired. It's slightly educational but not for sensitive eyes. It's fun to leave the book lying around real birder people, just to see them pick it up and flip through it. Given this, it will make a great gift for a wide range of “just the right people.

Why We Like This:

Perfect gift for bird lovers with a sense of humor
Best guide to birds and bird watching ever
Funny and entertaining book about bird identification
Great book for guests to discover

Best For parents: Rosemary Mosco Guide To Bird watch

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Best part: rosemary mosco guide to bird watch costs comparatively low and it is available to ship in 24 hours. These birds are smarter than you'd ever think they were. It is a terrific little book everyone should read about these fascinating birds. It includes wonderful tidbits and it is easy to understand genetics. It’s pocket sized and great. It will help you gain a whole new appreciation of these smart, savvy, and adaptable birds whose lives are so intertwined with ours.

This book is entertaining and would interest a wide audience. It is a great book for bird fans who feel that the pigeon deserves a little more attention. It comes with the upcoming fowl weather, this will help keep you happy as you're cooped up. This is a book to keep on the shelf forever so you can learn and enjoy every time you pick it up.

Why We Like This:

Entertaining educational book with lovely illustrations
Excellent history, bird behavior, anatomy, and bird watching tips
Perfect gift for the pigeon-lover in your life

Best For Identification: Ted Floyd Guide To Bird watch

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The ted floyd guide to bird watch is capable of outshining several other guide featured in this list in overall features for the price point. This is definitely the best photo guide available for just the birds of Colorado. This tactic will help the newer birder become acquainted with the more common birds while avoiding the potential confusion of the other 200 species not likely to be seen. The author's humor keeps it entertaining as well as informative, an example is in the description of the Long-eared Owl ",Listen for crazed moaning, yapping, and hooting.

This is a nicely done photo-based field guide for identification of Colrado birds rather than a guide to Colorado birding locations. The photos are large enough to allow scrutiny of detail and the text is concise. It can be used as a legend with each photo. This information gives tips on what should be examined about the bird to help with identification.

Why We Like This:

Beautiful book with leather cover in handy size to carry into the field
Has clear pictures that are large and help with easy identification of bird species
Attractive photo guide to 90% of colorado's expected birds
Beautiful, clear illustrations and written descriptions

Best Field Guide: bill Thompson III Guide To Bird watch

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We know from years of feedback from readers, customers and amazon sellers, what most people want in a convenient and appropriate guide. The bill thompson iii guide to bird watch is exactly that - it's a simple guide that hits all the right notes. This is the perfect book for a newly fascinated bird person. It presents the most important tips for birding and has an excellent two page, yet comprehensive illustration of the various habitats by name. It also is readily enjoyed by adults and presents a lot of information many adults will find fresh and new. The number of bird species is just right, too, covering all the more common and occasional species one might hope for and excludes the rarer ones more appropriate to a comprehensive field guide.

This is not designed as a children's introduction with perhaps two dozen species and pop-out-at-you illustrations with light weight information. The range maps include captions that explain where to look for the bird. It is easy to find bird pictures and descriptions.

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