How To Know The Birds

Very Good used hard cover in very good dust jacket.

With 72 full color illustrations and over 400 drawings by the author.

Using the shortcuts to recognition made famous in his renowned Field Guides, Roger Tory Peterson points out the vital clues to look for in any unfamiliar bird; its flying style, its body outline, its field marks. He describes the most typical members of the 54 major bird families and tells which of the 14 main types of wildlife areas each inhabits.