Birds of Utah Field Guide

by Stan Tekiela

Identify Utah birds with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information. Make bird-watching in Utah even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela’s famous bird guide, field identification is simple and informative. There’s no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don’t live in your area. This handy book features 138 species of Utah birds organized by color for ease of use. Full-page photographs present the species as you’ll see them in nature, and a “compare” feature helps you to decide between look-alikes. Inside you’ll This second edition includes eight new species, updated photographs and range maps, expanded information, and even more of Stan’s expert insights. So grab Birds of Utah Field Guide for your next birding adventure—to help ensure that you positively identify the birds that you see.

352 pages, Paperback

Published November 14, 2023

About the author

Author, naturalist and wildlife photographer Stan Tekiela is the originator of the popular state-specific field guide series and many easy-to-use identification guides for the U.S. Over the last 30 years he has authored around 200 field guides, quick guides, nature books, children's books, wildlife audio CDs, puzzles and playing cards, presenting many species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, trees, wildflowers and cacti found across the U.S. and in Canada.

Stan has a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural History from the University of Minnesota, and he has received national and regional awards for his books and photography. Also a well-known columnist and radio personality, his syndicated column appears in more than 25 newspapers and his wildlife programs are broadcast on a number of Midwest radio stations.

Stan leads instructional photo workshops and wildlife tours across the U.S. for both beginner and advanced photographers. He also gives detailed presentations about wildlife, complete with his award-winning photographs, to audiences of all sizes across the country.

Reviews

[Karen Farnsworth · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Noah Goats · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great little book. Nice pictures. Good information. Doesn't have every bird that can be found in the state, which is actually a good thing because that would be unmanageable (especially for a beginning birder such as myself), but it does have 138 species and they seem to have been well chosen. I'm trying to check them all off and that's going to keep me busy for a while.

UPDATE: I still think this is great, but a couple weeks after I wrote this review I was hiking an 11,000 foot peak near my home and spotted a smallish black and white bird zipping around with astonishing speed and dexterity, apparently hunting the insects humming around the mountain flowers. I've seen this species of bird on Wasatch peaks and ridges in the summer months for my entire life and I thought, ha! now I'm going to figure out what this is! I thumbed through this book's selection of black and white birds and didn't see it in there. (Merlin also didn't help). It was only the next day when I googled "What kind of black and white bird zips around mountain peaks in Utah?" that I was able to find it. It was a White-throated Swift. Now, White-throated swifts ARE actually included in this book, but the picture Tekiela has chosen is not helpful. He chose a picture of a Swift on a rock to represent the bird. This was a mistake. Most birders are going to see these birds flying. They famously have tiny useless legs and land as little as possible. He should have used a picture of the White-throated Swift in flight, which is more representative of what one is likely to see and presents a very different image of the bird. (I'm guessing he use the picture of the swift on the rock because it was much harder to get that picture than any pictures he had take of the bird on the wing). Five stars still, but, just thought it would be fun to complain.