Buteo's Recommendations


Our knowledgeable staff is happy to offer specific recommendations for any location to which you are traveling, or subject you would like to study. Just give us a call or send us an e-mail or fax. These titles are BRAND NEW copies. Price is for the cloth (hardback) edition unless indicated otherwise. Buteo Books makes every effort to keep these titles in stock, but both price and availability are subject to change.

HERMAN, Steven G. The Naturalist's Field Journal: A Manual of Instruction Based on a System Established by Joseph Grinnell. Buteo Books, 1986. 200 pp. Paper. A limited stock of this item has been discovered. Available while our supplies last. $35.00

The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. Sixth edition. James Clements and John W. Fitzpatrick. Cornell University Press, 2007. The most up-to-date and widely endorsed compendium of over 9800 species of birds. Incorporates hundreds of updates since the fifth edition. Comprehensive indexes, space to record location and date of sightings. 843 pp. Item #24-202. $59.95 Read a Review...

A Dictionary of Birds. Bruce Campbell and Elizabeth Lack, Editors. Poyser/Buteo, 1985. Illustrated with photos, drawings and figures. 670 pp. List Price - $75.00; On Sale for $19.95
An encyclopedic single-volume reference to ornithology and birds.

Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands: Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Rodrigues, Seychelles and the Comoros. Ian Sinclair. Struik, 2003. 350 species. Color plates by Oliver LANGRAND. Distribution maps. 184 pp. Paper. $19.95 - AVAILABLE AGAIN!

The Shorebird Guide. Richard Crossley, Michael O'Brien, and Kevin Karlson. Houghton Mifflin, 2006. More than 870 color photographs, emphasizing a holistic approach to identification. 477 pp. Flexi. #24-206. $24.95

All the Birds of Brazil: An Identification Guide. Deodato Souza. Revised Second edition, 2006. A portable field guide with color plates of all the birds. The only comprehensive field guide to the birds of Brasil. The text and maps have been extensively updated. Paper. $59.95
Read the review for an analysis of the pros and cons of this book.

Great Natural History Books

The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong. Donald Kroodsma. Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 482 pp. CD of birdsongs included. A marvelous book which teaches the reader how to see, hear, and understand bird songs. $28.00

Antbirds

Songs of the Antbirds. Thamnophilidae, Formicariidae, and Conopophagidae. by Phyllis R. Isler and Bret M. Whitney. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 2002. Includes over 270 species, often featuring three or four songs from a single individual. 3 CDs - $39.95

Birds of Argentina and Uruguay Birds of Argentina and Uruguay: A Field Guide. Gold edition (Fifteenth edition). Tito NAROSKY and Dario YZURIETA. Vazquez Mazzini Editores, 2003. 1000 species, 2000 illustrations, maps. 352 pp. Paper. The most comprehensive guide to the region, with excellent color plates and a handy field format. (Also available in a Spanish edition.) $45.00
Speciation and Biogeography NEWTON, Ian. The Speciation and Biogeography of Birds. Academic Press, 2003. The new single volume reference on avian evolution, taxonomy, distributional history, dispersal, and migration patterns. 650 pp. $94.95
This book is concerned mainly with the process of species formation in birds, and with the factors that affect their geographical ranges.
Dictionary HOLLOWAY, Joel Ellis. Dictionary of Birds of the United States: Scientific and Common Names. Timber Press, 2003. With illustrations by George Miksch Sutton. Explains the scientific binomial and common names of the birds of the United States. It is an excellent substitute for Jobling's Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. $19.95

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