Best Birdwatching Travel Guides
The stunning resplendent quetzal, a species atop every birder's life checklist, is one of over 900 species of birds inhabiting this tropical paradise. “Part of the Pocket Naturalist series from Waterford Press, this laminated field guide is lightweight in size, but not information.” – AAA New Mexico Journey Magazine. “There are dozens of these stunningly illustrated pocket guides to nature. “Nature lovers may want to look into an expanding series of pocket guides form Waterford Press.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I'm not a serious birder, and will be traveling with someone who'll probably have a 300-page bird book with her."
"I loved having this with me on my trip!"
"The Folding Pocket Guide of Costa Rica Birds has a well-chosen selection of birds, clearly shown for quick identification of birds In the fields, meadows, or waters of Costa Rica, in sunshine or rain."
"Very useful easy guide to the birds of Costa Rica."
"This product is great for what it is designed to do, many of the common birds and the size to fit in the pocket."
"Guides like these will be a lot more money in Costa Rica, where I lived for many years in the very popular tourist area of La Fortuna."
"I had another foldout pocket guide that included fish, reptiles, amphibians and mammals as well as birds."
Descriptions, illustrations and range maps help you identify birds and understand their habits. For 20 years, David has been a subregional editor for the quarterly journal, North American Birds, and he contributes frequent essays, poetry and artwork to the Sandpiper, the newsletter of the Redwood Region Audubon Society.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I have owned a copy of this book for a long time."
"Lots of info in this book about birds and great pictures too."
"This was a gift."
"Sorry to see that this has gone out of print as it is a lovely guide with excellent illustrations and lots of information on each bird."
"This was a gift for a friend."
"great book for the local birder like myself."
Harper's knowledge of natural history transforms Bartram's accounts of the southern states from a curious record of personal observation from the past into a guidebook useful to modern biologists, historians, ornithologists, and ethnologists. Combining precise and detailed scientific observations with a profound appreciation of nature, he produced a written account of his journey that would later influence both scientists and poets, including Wordsworth and Coleridge. It is the visionary quality which gives Bartram's writing its special radiance: the passionate, wonder-struck, daring, and very personal scientism, the repeated acts of rapt, total absorption. ( American Quarterly ). In the southeastern forests and savannahs, Bartram experienced a wild that we can no longer know in our mechanized and urbanized present.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I'll try to slug through the rest of the book but I think I'm going to be on the internet a lot to find out the names I'm used to on these things."
"Amazing historical account."
"Very interesting book on early America."
"Great read, even better if you do it while hiking his trail."
"We just returned from the "Carolina's" and I found this book very informative and beautifully written."
"Fascinating reading of our former Florida and Southeast terrains and people."
"Very interesting perspective on Florida history."
"This book was a journal of Bartram's travels through the southeast."
Best Bird Field Guides
Specially designed for experienced colorists, Owls and other Creative Haven® adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Marjorie Sarnat is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of several coloring books and more than a dozen books on art and creativity.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The pages of the book are single-sided and are perforated at the bound edge so you can remove the page to color or to frame afterwards. The images have a wide range, including: an owl sitting on a wildly decorated crescent moon, an owl with butterflies, a "smart" owl amongst his/her books, owls on a wooden rocking horse, pirate owls, fairy tale owl, totem pole owls, steampunk owl, the owl and the pussycat (yes, cat included!)."
"She has filled this book with Charming Owls that entrance you and entwined them with intricate, captivating, unparalleled combinations of patterns, embellishing the backgrounds, scenery, borders, and even adorning the Owls creating illustrations that will make this your favorite coloring book, and you won’t be able to put it down. All Markers and Gel Pens leak through the pages so place two pieces of paper under the page you are coloring to prevent damage to the next page. If you love this book, you will also want to look at Marjoie Sarnats first coloring book (Creative Haven Cats)."
"This is a really cute and charming coloring book perfect for owl aficionados and colorists who like quirky pictures."
"The attached photos show a page from this book colored with the Sharpie Ultra-Fine Tip 24 pack markers and the very minimal bleed-through."
"I love owls so I'm probably bias about this coloring book."
"Markers will bleed through, but that's easy to fix with a couple of sheets of paper behind that one your coloring."
"This makes using water colored pencils and markers easier as they do not bleed through to the other picture. I do put another piece of paper or thin cardboard in between so that it also helps to catch the bleeding if I am being heavy handed."