Designed to fit in a backpack or pocket for easy access, each of these handy and popular bird field guides comprises 272 pages and features about 175 birds organized by family as approved by the American Ornithological Union. Standard features
Locator Map at the front listing regional birding hotspots; Introduction by an expert on where to find the state's top birds; How-To-Use Section with general tips on birding and advice on making the most of the guide; 125 Easy-Access Individual Entries providing a photograph of the bird in its habitat, recognition clues, specific details on behavior, habitat, and local sites, plus a special "Field Note" with artwork for extra help in tricky identifications; Alphabetical Index with life list; and Color-coded Index.
Pennsylvania offers a winning variety of city and country birds. See the bright-colored, vocal Yellow-billed Cuckoo; the migratory Snow Goose; the stunning Red-Tailed Hawk; the olive Acadian Flycatcher, and more.
Jonathan K. Alderfer is an art consultant and a bird artist whose illustrations appear in National Geographic field guides. He began his career as a painter in the 1980s as an illustrator of articles for The Western Tanager, the Los Angeles Audubon Society's newsletter. Jonathan is an avid, expert birder.
I got this field guide in April 2020 as part of my response to the pandemic shutdown. I needed to find something to do when we were at home day after day after day, so I started checking out the birds in the neighborhood. Turns out there are quite a few. Between April of 2020 (when I started this book) and January 7, 2022, I've seen at least fifty of the birds identified in this book locally. All told, I've seen 77 of the 175 identified here, but some were in places farther away than what is essentially my backyard.
This field guide will always have a special place in my heart, as it was my first 😘🐦🦆🦅