Smithsonian Field Guide To The Birds Of North America [with Dvd Rom]

With unsurpassed digital photography, downloadable recordings of more than 500 bird songs, and authoritative text from the world's foremost birding experts, this astonishing book resets the bar for birding guides. 1,500 full-color photos.

This new field guide provides a suite of modern tools to effectively aid in the identification of more than 750 species of birds across North America. It introduces a "whole bird" approach by concisely gathering a collection of information about birds into one portable and well-organized volume.

2,000 stunning color photographs of birds in natural habitats show the most important field marks, regional population differences, life stages, and behaviors

700-plus detailed and up-to-date color range maps show summer, migration, winter, year-round, and rare but regular occurrences of every major species

A DVD of birdsongs for 138 major species (587 vocalizations in all for 51/2 hours of play); each high-quality MP3 file is embedded with an image of the bird, perfect to view on home computers and portable MP3 players

Concise descriptions of habits and ecology, age-related and seasonal differences, regional forms, vocalization, and informative captions pointing out the most important aspects of the bird

46 group essays with information outlining taxonomy, feeding, migration, habitats, behaviors, and conservation status

A thorough and accessible introduction to birds and birding includes sections on parts of a bird, plumage and molt, food and feeding, migration, habitats, conservation, tips on bow to become a better birder, and more

A detailed glossary of terms, species checklist, and quick index

"The new Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America" is perfectly designed to give birders the most powerful and user-friendly collection of information to carry into the field or wherever they enjoy learning about birds and nature.