Identify A Wild Bird...With A Field Guide

Or try our new online bird book - it is mostly text descriptions to assist in identifying birds, but soon to have photos for each bird!

This used to happen to me all the time! I'd see a new bird at the bird feeder or hanging out in my garden shrubs and I'd need to know right away what type of bird it was!

That's when I'd pick up the phone and try to describe the bird to my best bird identification source.

"Peter! Help me identify this bird!"

It is no wonder then, that less than two months of these excitable calls my bird ID expert gifted me with a book that would help me identify wild birds for myself! 

So here it is. My favorite birding book that I recommend to new bird watchers as well as those established in the hobby is Smithsonian Handbooks: Birds of North America: Eastern Region.

The book itself is classified as a field version, which means you're meant to be able to carry this around in your treks through the woods or long hikes. I wouldn't. It's a heavy book that doesn't fit in my back pocket.

However I wouldn't be without this treasure to identify the birds that land in my yard. I keep it on my windowsill and the condition of my copy shows how useful it has been over the past few years.

This 'field manual' has a flexible plastic cover and each bird has it's own page. Color drawings that are so good most of them look like photographs, display the variation between genders, age, and season (when important). A really nice feature for new bird watchers is the sidebar of similar birds - which is a great reference when you're trying to determine the bird in sight. There are color range maps; flight pattern diagrams; a scale guide; feeding habits and nest information, plus much more.

This book isn't available at amazon, but you might be able to find it at your local library or order it for less than $25 at barnes and noble - Smithsonian Handbooks: Birds of North America: Eastern Region.

About the Author of this Bird Identification Book:

Frederick Joseph Alsop, III Ph.D. is an ornithologist and a professor of biological sciences at East Tennessee State University. He received his doctorate in zoology from the University of Tennessee, and specialized in the ecology, distribution, life history, and taxonomy of birds. In addition to studying the effects of pesticides on eggshell thickness and endangered and threatened species.

Fred Alsop is an avid field biologist and birder, and photographer, and has identified more than 3,200 species worldwide. 

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