Birds of Indiana Field Guide

by Stan Tekiela

Go Birding with Indiana’s Best-Selling Bird Guide! Learn to identify birds in Indiana, and make bird-watching 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 112 species of Indiana 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. Book
This field guide includes the most common and important species to know, professional photographs and range maps, relevant information, and plenty of Stan’s expert insights. So grab Birds of Indiana Field Guide for your next birding adventure―to help ensure that you positively identify the birds that you see.

Genres: Nonfiction, Birds

292 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

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

[Sleepy Boy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent field guide, all of his are really. Perfect for keeping watch on my feeder set up.

[Douglass Gaking · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a helpful pocket guide if you want a quick reference to birds you might see at your feeder, in the park, or on a hike. It is organized by color, which makes it great for beginners (most field guides go in taxonomical order, which can slow down beginners). If you are serious about wanting to identify birds, there are much more comprehensive guides out there. This is great for getting started with learning the birds in your neighborhood. It's also great for kids.

[Abby Nall · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a great, family-friendly field guide. My daughters are able to see a brown bird in the backyard, flip open the "brown" section, and find the bird they saw. The organization by color is genius. And if the male and female are colored significantly differently, they will have entries in both sections (cardinals, for example, are in both brown AND red; dark-eyed juncos are in both black AND brown). Genius!
The notes are helpful without being too extra, and the sections on how to tell the bird you're looking at apart from similar birds are very handy.
If you own a bird feeder, you owe it to yourself to get a Stan Tekiela field guide for your state. That goes double for homeschoolers like me.

[Gale Turco · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent field guide for identification of birds in Indiana. It’s conveniently organized by the predominant color which helps with quick ID.

[Meg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great bird guide

[Cindywue · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent guide!

[CC · Rating 5 out of 5]

Peerless. If Stan Tekiela has done a guide for your region: get it. Birds are classified by their primary color, so you don't need to be an ornithologist, or miss actual bird-watching time fumbling through multiple sections. I only wish he did larger guides as well as these handy pocket sized ones.

[Abigail · Rating 5 out of 5]

I find this a very well-organized book divided into sections according to the birds' dominant color. Male and female birds with different colorings and patterns are given their own separate pages cross-referenced with one another.