A Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Birding Challenges and How to Approach Them

Very Good used paperback. Previous owner's name on ffp. 

This is the field guide that begins where the other guides leave off - that tells exactly how to solve the most challenging bird identification problems of North America.  Although we've called it a guide to advanced birding, it is so clearly written and beautifully illustrated that even a beginner can use it.  

It covers the thirty-five most difficult groups of birds, from winter loons to confusing fall warblers, jaegers to chickadees, accipiters to flycatchers.  It explains concisely and precisely what the problems are in each group; then it systematically shows just how to solve them - how to tell one species from another, one plumage from another, an adult bird from a juvenile, a three-year-old gull from a two-year gull.  An essential book for anyone who wants to move beyond the basics of birding, 

Text and illustrations by Kenn Kaufman, with a forward by Roger Tory Peterson. B & W illustrations.