ABA Birdfinding Guide: A Birder's Guide to Florida, Fourth edition

Spiral bound in very good condition. Cover is slightly shelf worn. Previous owner's stamps on front and back pages.

Florida is one of the most popular birding destinations in the Western Hemisphere—and it is well-served by the most popular birdfinding guide ever published, Bill Pranty's A Birder's Guide to Florida, released in 1996.

For international birders Florida offers an accessible, comfortable introduction to subtropical birding. North American birders savor Florida as the place to see species not found elsewhere in the US and Canada, such as Snail Kite, Short-tailed Hawk, Black-hooded Parakeet, Mangrove Cuckoo, Black-whiskered Vireo, or Florida Scrub-Jay. These are but a few of the Florida specialties that make a trip to the Sunshine State such an exciting adventure for all birders.

This fourth edition has been completely rewritten to provide indispensable new information. Bill Pranty, with the help of dozens of the state's most devoted birders, describes more than 250 birding locations throughout Florida. over 80 new maps reflect the text's detailed birding instructions. Useful bar graphs show seasonal abundance in Florida's major regions for about 480 species of birds; the big Specialties section itself treats over 180 species in greater detail. All-around naturalists will appreciate the guide's lists of Florida's dragonflies, butterflies, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals; birders with an interest in the state's exotic birds will find 173 species listed.