Wild Birds of the Americas

Good used paperback. Chipped edges on front and back covers. Pages show signs of wear. Previous owner's blind stamp on cover page.

Although Terence Shortt's paintings have been reproduced in many other books, this is the first in which they are accompanied by his own text, the material for which has been drawn from forty-seven years of experience as a field artist and ornithologist. In addition to the sixty-seven color portraits, Shortt executed 110 black and white sketches specifically for this book, to illustrate a specific habit of each bird...A major work by a major artist and naturalist.