ABA Birdfinding Guide: A Birder's Guide to the Rio Grande Valley

Very Good used spiralbound book.  Bumped corners. Previous owner's blind stamp on title page.

A Birder's Guide to the Rio Grande Valley is designed to help you locate not only the specialty birds of the Rio Grande Valley (those not occurring elsewhere in North America),  but also to find the more common birds of the region.  Birdfinding instructions begin in the wonderland of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, detailing routes designed to help you make the most of your visit at any time of year.  47 detailed maps augment the route instructions.  The guide deviates from the river corridor to cover the Edwards Plateau, the Davis Mountains, the Pecos Valley, and Guadalupe Mountains and Carlsbad Caverns National Parks.  Special attention is given to the regional hot spots:  Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Falcon Dam, Big Bend National Park, the Davis Mountains, and El Paso/Las Cruces, New Mexico area.  A 588-species Birds of the Region section covers the relative abundance, normal range, and proper habitat for each species.  Also included are lists of butterflies and other vertebrates, from lizards to bats to the seldom-seen nighttime predators.

1999, Third Edition