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The Sibley Guide to Birds  •  David Sibley GUIDEBOOK •  2000 •  FLEXI-BOUND  • 544 PAGES • FAVORITE David Sibley illustrated and provided descriptions for 810 species of birds found in North America in this gorgeous handbook. With 6,600 original paintings (!) and full-color detailed range maps, it belongs on the shelf of every North American birder. Unlike its lesser brethren, each species is given at least a half page, which includes range map, voice, key field marks -- and several paintings with juvenile, adult and seasonal plumage. Each gloriously painted bird is shown both in flight and at rest. (FG48, $35.00)
All Things Reconsidered, My Birding Adventures  •  Roger Tory Peterson NATURAL HISTORY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES A collection of 42 of Peterson's best columns from Bird Watcher's Digest, including his adventures in Alaska, Russia, Kenya and New York City. (BRD46, $14.95)
Bird Songs  •  Les Beletsky  •  Jon L. Dunn FIELD GUIDE •  2006 •  HARD COVER This innovative book of North American birds in words, pictures and song, features color paintings, concise descriptions and, most notably, audio files from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology of 250 species. (BRD49, $45.00)
Canon 7 X 42 AWP Binoculars  •  Canon USA 2005 •  GEAR These rugged, water and fog-proof glasses, lightweight, bright and versatile, stack up against top models (like the Leica Ultravid and Zeiss 7 x 42) that sell at four times the price. Like the best binoculars, they are a roof-prism design, nitrogen filled with coated optics that are razor-sharp to the edge. Eye-glass wearers especially will appreciate the long eye relief. This model has a seven degree field of vision and focuses down to 12-feet. With a 25-year warranty on parts and labor. For $1,500, ultra-deluxe competitors get you, in addition, bragging rights, a lifetime guarantee, a wider angle and closer focus. (STF28, $289.00)
The Great Naturalists  •  Robert Huxley NATURAL HISTORY •  2007 •  HARD COVER  • 304 PAGES Natural history as told through the lives and travels of the most influential naturalists. Includes widely-renowned and lesser-known contributors, from Darwin and Aristotle to Mary Anning, known as the "Princess of Paleontology" for her skill at finding fossils. (NAT133, $39.95)
National Geographic Birding Essentials  •  Jonathan Alderfer NATURAL HISTORY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES Sure, gorgeous illustrations, photographs and maps fill this introduction to birding, but its true value lies in its helpful advice on what to look and listen for, as well as its clear descriptions of species, behavior, environments and how to better enjoy birding. (BRD52, $15.95)

American Earth  •  William McKibben   • REFERENCE  •  A provocative anthology of top-selected American environmental writings from the past two centuries considers their influence on the ways in which people view the natural world and includes pieces by such figures as Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John James Audubon. (NAT139, $40.00)
Birds of the World  •  Les Beletsky   • REFERENCE  •  Beletsky (Traveller's Wildlife Guides) corralled 11 leading bird artists for this oversized ornithological celebration featuring 1,600 paintings. (BRD43, $50.00)
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World  •  James Clements  •  John W. Fitzpatrick   • REFERENCE  •  The authoritative reference for serious birders, updated throughout for this sixth edition, covers 9800 species and subspecies with space to record location and date of sightings. (BRD42, $59.95)
Where to Watch Birds in World Cities  •  Paul Milne   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Featuring bird-watching sites and practical details on seeing birds in 60 cities worldwide. (BRD41, $28.00)
Kingbird Highway, The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand  •  Kenn Kaufman   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Kaufman's absorbing account of coming-of-age as a Wichita teenager on the road in 1973 with a summer's pay in his pocket and the goal of seeing as many birds as he could in a year. (BRD27, $14.00)
Birds in the Hand, Fiction & Poetry About Birds  •  Dylan Nelson  •  Kent Nelson   • ANTHOLOGY  •  This anthology of contemporary writing captures the spirit and allure of birds -- and bird habitats. (BRD32, $14.00)
The Audubon Reader  •  John James Audubon   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A definitive anthology of nature writings by the great artist and ornithologist features Audubon's lively and colorful writings about the American wilderness and its plant and animal life, accompanied by excerpts from his journals, letters, and published works that include his keen profiles of wild birds, accounts of his river journeys with the Osage, and more. (BRD59, $27.50)
Elsewhere in the Land of Parrots  •  Jim Paul   • LITERATURE  •  A novel of the literary life, love and Aratinga erythrogenys, the cherry-headed conure that holds together the plot in this witty love story. (EDR20, $13.00)
Albatross: Their World, Their Ways  •  Tui De Roy  •  Mark Jones  •  Julian Fitter   • NATURAL HISTORY • COMING IN SEPTEMBER  •  The seafaring duo's portfolio of 300 magnificent photographs of the world's Diomedeidae. (BRD64, $49.95)
All the World's Birds  •  Georges-louis Leclerc comte de Buffon  •  David Sibley  •  Francois-Nicolas Martinet   • NATURAL HISTORY • COMING IN OCTOBER  •  A sumptuous new edition of magnificent color engravings from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particuliere by Francois-Nicolas Martinet, originally published in 36 volumes between 1749 and 1778, with the original descriptive information and an appreciative introduction by David Sibley. (BRD62, $350.00)
Atlas of Bird Migration, Tracing the Great Journeys of the World's Birds  •  Jonathan Elphick   • SCIENCE  •  Compiled by a team of experts, this oversized, beautifully illustrated guide to bird migration features hundreds of color paintings, photographs and maps. (BRD58, $35.00)
Audubon's Birds of America  •  John James Audubon   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The spectacular Baby Elephant Folio edition of Audubon's 435 hand-colored engravings. (BRD37, $185.00)
Between Heaven and Earth, Bird Tales from Around the World  •  Howard Norman  •  Leo Dillon  •  Diane Dillon   • NATURAL HISTORY • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  A beautifully illustrated storybook, geared for grades 3 and up, with folktales from Australia, Norway, Sri Lanka, Southern Africa and China, all featuring birds. (BRD34, $22.00)
Bird  •  Ben Hoare   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A giant visual primer on the world's most common, fantastic and intriguing species, covering 1,500 birds in all, with large photographs, range maps and concise descriptions. (BRD54, $50.00)
Birds of Tropical America  •  Steven Hilty   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Hilty serves up essays on how to find and better appreciate the dizzying variety of birds, their habits and habitats, diversity and distribution. (CAM39, $19.95)
Birds, The Art of Ornithology  •  Jonathan Elphick   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An oversize collection of color prints, watercolors, drawings, and paintings of birds taken from the rich archives of London's Natural History Museum. With 212 color reproductions, organized chronologically. (BRD36, $60.00)
Birdsong, A Natural History  •  Don Stap   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Stap, a professor of English at the University of Central Florida, mixes science and travel narrative in this delightful, informative account of his time in the field with ornithologist Don Kroodsma and his students. (BRD21, $15.95)
Birdwatcher, The Life of Roger Tory Peterson  •  Elizabeth J. Rosenthal   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Enlivened with interviews and anecdotes, this entertaining biography captures the spirit of the pioneering naturalist and a generation of birders. (NAT151, $29.95)
Chasing Neotropical Birds  •  Vera and Bob Thornton   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A Neotropical sampler, featuring 116 color photographs of dazzling, rare and charming birds of Central and South America. (SAM76, $34.95)
Flights of Fancy  •  Peter Tate   • NATURAL HISTORY • COMING IN OCTOBER  •  A guide to the myths, legends and superstitions that surround some of the world's best-loved birds. (BRD63, $20.00)
Good Birders Don't Wear White  •  Lisa White   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  With 50 tips from the biggest names in birding on topics ranging from feeding birds to "pishing" and pelagics. (BRD56, $8.95)
Lives of North American Birds  •  Kenn Kaufman   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A Peterson Natural History Companion, this handbook fully describes, and illustrates with color photographs, the 600 species of birds that regularly occur in North America. (BRD01, $25.00)
Living on the Wind, Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds  •  Scott Weidensaul   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Weidensaul criss-crosses the continents on the trail of the various migrating shorebirds, warblers, hawks and other birds in this wide-ranging, evocative report from the field. (BRD10, $16.00)
Of a Feather, A Brief History of American Birding  •  Scott Weidensaul   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Weidensaul sketches the personalities, developments and change in ornithology from John Jay Audubon to David Sibley in this informal, engaging history of birding in these United States. (BRD55, $25.00)
Return to Wild America, A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul  •  Scott Weidensaul   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An eye-opening trek in the footsteps of conservation pioneers Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher, whose 1953 journey across America resulted in the classic Wild America. (USA123, $15.00)
Sightings, Extraordinary Encouters With Ordinary Birds  •  Sam Keen  •  Mary Woodin   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A selection of elegant essays on the nature and the wonder of birdlife, both philosophical and fanciful. (BRD51, $14.95)
The Bedside Book of Birds, An Avian Miscellany  •  Graeme Gibson   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Gibson brings together literary excerpts, paintings, drawings, and essays for this terrifically illustrated ornithological miscellany. (BRD31, $29.95)
The Big Year, A Tale Of Man, Nature, And Fowl Obsession  •  Mark Obmascik   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Obmascik, himself an over-the-edge birder, recounts with glee and page-turning detail the race to see the most birds in North America in a year. It's an utterly compelling account of a three-way race (roofing contractor, tycoon, software nerd), likely never again to be equaled. (BRD29, $14.00)
The Birds of Heaven, Travels With Cranes  •  Peter Matthiessen  •  Robert Bateman   • NATURAL HISTORY • COMING IN  •  Matthiessen traveled with the cranes to Siberia, Japan, Mongolia, North America, China, Bhutan, East Africa, Australia, India and Texas for this handsomely illustrated, informative book. He interweaves his travels with insightful commentary on the conservation, ecology, and the significance of the crane in art and culture. (BRD11, $16.00)
The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife  •  Christopher W. Leahy  •  Gordon Morrison   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A handsome, fully illustrated survey of the birds of North America, organized A to Z, covering birds, bird biology, conservation and birdwatching. (NAM21, $19.95)
The Goshawk  •  T. H. White   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  English novelist T.H. White recounts his efforts to learn the art of falconry in this 1951 classic. (BRD53, $16.95)
The Grail Bird, Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker  •  Tim Gallagher   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  (BRD40, $14.95)
The Life of Birds  •  David Attenborough   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A companion book to the PBS series. (GEN77, $35.00)
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird  •  Phillip Hoose   • NATURAL HISTORY • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  An engaging and well-researched history of the ivory-billed woodpecker, and the struggles surrounding its survival. It's a suspenseful and entertaining book about modern conservation and environmental issues for middle-school readers. (BRD30, $21.00)
The Singing Life of Birds, The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong  •  Donald E. Kroodsma   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An account of a life in the field organized around an illuminating, personal analysis of the songs of 30 North American birds (with accompanying CD). With line drawings, tables, charts and sound spectrograms. (BRD22, $16.95)
The Verb to Bird, Sightings of an Avid Birder  •  Peter Cashwell   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A memoir of the birding life, its pleasures, obsessions and pitfalls. Based in the Carolinas (where he teaches English), Cashwell recounts in these essays the birds he's encountered, the why and wherefores of the birding life and some very entertaining anecdotes. (BRD26, $14.95)
To See Every Bird On Earth: A Father, A Son, And A Lifelong Obsession  •  Dan Koeppel   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  In this enormously appealing memoir of a life devoted to birds. Koeppel chronicles his father's growing obsession and accomplishment as an elite birdwatcher, one of a handful of people who have tallied 7,000 species. (BRD28, $14.00)
Why Birds Sing  •  David Rothenberg   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The musical accompaniment to Why Birds Sing (which is included in the paper but not the hardcover edition of this stellar book). (BRD38, $13.98)
Why Birds Sing, A Journey Through the Mystery of Bird Song  •  David Rothenberg   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Rothenberg, a jazz clarinetist and philosopher with a strong interest in the interconnectedness of things, weaves music, poetry and science in this intriguing series of essays on the meaning and pleasure of birdsong. This new edition comes with a 63-minute CD. (BRD23, $19.95)
Wild America  •  Roger Tory Peterson  •  James Fisher   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The beloved, influential classic. Once upon a time, or more precisely 50 years ago, Roger Tory Peterson and a seabird biologist sidekick James Fisher, made a 100-day, 30,000-mile dash around the continent. (NAM26, $17.00)
Albatrosses, Petrels and Shearwaters of the World  •  Paul Schofield   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This compact guide to those confounding tubenoses features 46 exquisite color plates by Derek Onley. (BRD50, $29.95)
Birds of South America, Non-Passerines: Rheas to Woodpeckers  •  Francisco Erize  •  Maurice Rumboll  •  Jorge R. Rodriguez Mata   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A concise guide to nearly 1300 species of South American non-passerines, featuring fine color plates by Jorge Rodriguez. (SAM82, $29.95)
National Geographic Birder's Journal  •  National Geographic Society   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A sturdy journal with a checklist of every bird species in North America, organized by family. It's an excellent companion for any enthusiastic birder, especially when used alongside the Field Guide to the Birds of North America (FG09). (BRD44, $16.95)
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America  •  Jon Dunn   • FIELD GUIDE • COMING IN OCTOBER  •  A copiously illustrated guide to every species east of the Rockies. (USE444, $19.95)
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America  •  National Geographic   • FIELD GUIDE  •  From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide published by the National Geographic Society, now in its fifth edition (with tabs!), is the one to carry. (FG09, $24.00)
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Western North America  •  Jon Dunn   • FIELD GUIDE • COMING IN OCTOBER  •  A copiously illustrated guide to every species west of and including the Rockies. (USW562, $19.95)
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America  •  Roger Tory Peterson   • FIELD GUIDE • COMING IN AUGUST  •  This revised combo edition of Peterson's classic field guides, published in celebration of the centennial of his birth, includes all new maps and digital enhancements to the master's original paintings. (NAM42, $26.00)
Seabirds of the World, A Photographic Guide  •  Peter Harrison   • FIELD GUIDE • COMING IN  •  A definitive, compact guide to all the world's seabirds, featuring 740 photographs. (FG16, $29.95)
Sibley's Birding Basics  •  David Sibley   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A highly recommended guide to finding and identifying birds in the field, featuring 200 color paintings by master David Sibley. (BRD17, $15.95)
Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America  •  Ted Floyd   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Featuring 2,000 stunning color photographs, this comprehensive guide buy the editor of Birding magazine includes almost 600 I-Pod compatable, downloadable bird songs. (NAM44, $24.95)
The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World  •  Frank Gill  •  Minturn Wright   • FIELD GUIDE  •  The third edition of an authoritative popular brief checklist, listing nearly 10,000 species and subspecies of birds in phylogentic order. (BRD45, $19.95)
The Shorebird Guide  •  Richard Crossley  •  Michael O'Brien  •  Kevin Karlson   • FIELD GUIDE  •  (BRD39, $24.95)