The 9 Best National Audubon Society Field Guides (2023 reviews)

If you often find yourself confused about good guide, this is your end point. This is a great guide for anyone new to wildflowers. It covers the entire East Coast and the region east of the Rocky Mountains. The illustrations are wonderful and the book comes in very handy when going on weekend hikes and camping. The intent is to make easier identification of wildflowers in the field.

It comes with audubon, you have to flip between the two sections. The colored plates are exquisite. The photos are beautiful and they are all in living color for quick identification of wildflowers. It is easy to adjust to after using it a few times.

Why We Like This:

Great field guide to explore native plants
Pocket/fanny pack sized, beautiful color photo's, well laid out
Colored thumb plates with explanatory symbols help to quickly find and identify each wildflower
Well organized, easy to use, and has clear descriptions, with brilliant photos and drawings

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

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The national audubon society comprehensive field guide should be able to handle its purpose and duties with ease. There is no all-in-one mushroom book, this one is the backbone of any mushroom identification library. It is by far the best book to safely and quickly identify mushrooms in north america. 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. The drawings make it easy to see if it’s the correct plant bird or mushroom or tree.

The book is well organized so that it is easy to find mushrooms depending on traits. The glossy, high-quality plates are arranged systematically and very clearly refer the user to the pertinent comprehensive text descriptions. It’s very thorough and easy to carry while searching for the yummy shrooms you get to harvest. It is designed for total beginners.

Why We Like This:

Superb pictures for identifying mushrooms and fungi
Excellent for a mycologist and fungi enthusiast
Great illustrations with colourful pictures, easy to use & very informative

Best For budding geologists: National Audubon Society Good Field Guide

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The national audubon society good field guide's superior materials makes sure that it ages well with use. This book tells you everything you need to know about how to test your stones, where they can be found, tools you need, etc. It is great to take on field trips. It works great if you know basic mineralogy, crystallography, etc. It can be used in the process of identification.

These are only pictured rough or in the landscape to see how they form as bedrock. It is great for a geologist or mineralogy student. It offers the most in depth, yet easy to understand information.

Why We Like This:

Great for anyone interested in minerals and rocks, especially kids
Recommended to people anywhere who need a solid rock and mineral guide
Compact informative detailed and well illustrated with photos for the amateur geologist
Great book for rock and mineral hounds

Best For advanced tree lovers: National Audubon Society Perfect Field Guide

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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 product is exactly that - it's a simple product that hits all the right notes. If you want to learn about your best friends and neighbors in a hurry, Elbert Little's field guide is a good way. According to Little, it's a "woody plant with an erect perennial trunk at least 3 inches in diameter at breast height, and definitely formed a crown of foliage, and a height of at least 13 feet. It lets you identify trees based on either flower, leaf, bark, etc and has them sorted into appropriate sections with colored photos. Most of the leaf photos are nice and high contrast for easier viewing, and it's nice that some flower pictures are included as well in case it's the right time of year.

This book relies heavily on color photos of bark, leaves, flowers, and fruiting bodies. It gives just the right amount of information and the photos are excellent. It is a good size, and the illustrations are clear. It is a great book to bring with you if you like to walk or hike.

Why We Like This:

Breaks down pictoral sections by leaves, flowers (by color), seeds, pods, cones, etc
One of the new comers and featured product

Best For packing: National Audubon Society Field Guide

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The national audubon society field guide's superior materials makes sure that it ages well with use. It is easy to identify an insect without knowing anything about its taxa. It is one of the best books for identifying insects and spiders. It has basic info on families and select species. The booklet contains spiders & insects and goes in-depth for butterflies. It is extremely useful with pictures at the front for viewing each insect.

The quality of the pages is great and the photos are beautiful and colorful. There are plenty of awesome pictures of different bugs and also plenty of facts to learn about them. This is a very good book to get you on the road to entomology and as a reference after that, one you too will keep a long time.

Why We Like This:

Great book to take on camping trips and hikes
Perfect if you are just starting to learn about insects
Identification is easy, learning is fantastic

Best For those: National Audubon Society Great Field Guide

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The national audubon society great field guide's material feels more premium than its price would suggest. As far as a good tool to increase one's knowledge of the natural world, this field guide is helpful and deserves a place in any naturalist's library. This is a must have resource book for beginning to understand and identify Wild flowers,Although it is not the final chapter in identification it sure will get you started and is easy to follow and categorize.

The colour photographs are excellent as is the organization of the plants by colour, and flower type. The system makes quick work of identifying new plants. These photos are indispensible for any one who needs to identify any of the more than 650 species of western wildflowers. The book is well organized, comprehensive, and fairly easy to use.

Why We Like This:

Vibrant colors and easy format for anyone to learn
Great manual to take on hikes
Color coded for ease of identification
Clear, complete photos, and detailed descriptions

Best seashell Guide: Nationalaudubonsociety Field Guide

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The nationalaudubonsociety field guide is capable of outshining several other products featured in this list in overall features for the price point. This is the definitive book on North American shells. From dull green to stunning black and white striped, this is the most detailed and beautiful family listed in the book. It is perfect to take with you anywhere on any coast of north america if you are hunting for seashells. This excellent guide has unique detailed information on seashells found on the pacific, atlantic and gulf coasts of north america as well as the west indies. It is well organized and the photographs are excellent.

This is a real field guide, complete with tough plastic binding, but also a great reference book. The pictures are very clear, and the organization based on shape is a nice touch. It is a book that needs to be in one, a library if you love seashell collecting and identifying the shells that you find on the coastal shores.

Why We Like This:

Full color, crisp and clear photographs with accompanying information for each and every shell
Lots of nice color images with descriptions
Small enough to carry along in a back pack or beach bag
Great book for cruisers in the islands or beachcomers elsewhere

Best For Information: National Audubon Society Great Book

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The national audubon society great book should be able to handle its purpose and duties with ease. These are excellent books for the beginning entomologist, they offer a lot of valuable infomation about a limited number of species. It is strictly a freshwater encyclopedia. This small book contains beautiful pictures and detailed descriptions of any species you may want to identify. It has all the fish and detailed information on where they can be found, what they look like, and how to identify them clearly. The photos are clear and detailed enough so that out in the field you can get a good idea of what exactly you are looking at.

All of these books are great for identification and information. It is compact, with a nice durable cover, and has beautiful photographs. It is especially helpful in showing areas where species are common.

Why We Like This:

Very helpful in amateur fish identification
Vinyl cover can be cleaned easy
Good for academics, not fieldwork friendly
Beautiful colored pictures with detailed descriptions of animals

Best For Nature lover: National Audubon Society Great Guide

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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 product is exactly that - it's a simple product that hits all the right notes. This book has so many birds, snakes, and lizards. It covers a great deal of flora and fauna. It is a great guide to carry along on outings, most anything you are likely to see is in this book, and it is not stuffed with plants and animals that do not occur here in the southeast.

The photographs are very good and make identification easy, for the most part. If you are packing on the trail this is the book for you. 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
Wide range of birds, accurate information
A must for anyone going outdoors in the south
A must-have for the southern outdoorsman