Birds of Arizona Field Guide

by Stan Tekiela

Learn to Identify Birds in Arizona! Make bird watching in Arizona even more enjoyable! With Stan Tekiela’s famous field guide, bird 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 book features 145 species of Arizona birds, organized by color for ease of use. Do you see a yellow bird and don’t know what it is? Go to the yellow section to find out. Fact-filled information, a compare feature, range maps, and detailed photographs help to ensure that you positively identify the birds that you see.

Genres: Nonfiction

364 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2003

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

[Garrett Haynes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bought this in the gift shop at the Desert Botanical Garden near Phoenix on a trip to Arizona. The Garden entry fee is expensive but worth it. This is a decent field guide for the birds of Arizona. I really enjoyed the Stan’s Notes section as there was lots of unique information about various species that I learned. As you go through the color sections there are a lot of repeats of species because the author puts one entry for male under one color and an entry for female under a different color, which for the details is redundant but it does give you a chance to see larger images of both sexes. You could get away with taking a Sibley’s but this is more portable and focused to Arizona which can be helpful, and it’s inexpensive.