In Birding Rocky Mountain Park, author Scott Roederer provides a close-up look at eight of the park's best birding areas, with information about where to park, walk, and what species to expect. Includes detailed maps for each area, illustrations, and a chapter covering nearby birding areas. Johnson Books; March 2002; 224 pages; paper

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From David Sibley, renowned artist and birder and heir to the mantle of Roger Tory Peterson, comes this landmark addition to Knopf's National Audubon Society publishing program: a field identification guide to North American birds containing his superbly lucid and comprehensive text and more than 6,500 of his paintings: beautiful, richly detailed, and brilliantly reproduced in full color.

Sibley depicts and annotates 810 species and 350 regional populations, showing their stages, forms, shapes, colors, and markings. He describes each call and provides a full-color range map showing each species migration routes as well as its summer, winter, and breeding locations.

The entire birding world, from expert ornithologists to backyard enthusiasts, has been waiting for David Sibley's work to be made available in a field-usable form. This guide is certain to quickly become and long remain the definitive and indispensable reference tool for the identification and understanding of North American birds.

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This is the new 5th edition released in November, 2006.

Birding is the fastest growing wildlife-related activity in the U.S., and even conservative estimates put the current number of U.S. birders at 50 million. According to the New York Times, some authorities predict that by 2050 there will be more than 100 million·and the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America will be the essential reference for field identification and the cornerstone of any birder's library. This is the ultimate, indispensable bird field guide·comprehensive, authoritative, portable, sturdy, and easier than ever to use.

Among the the new edition's key elements and practical improvements: Every North American species·more than 960, including a new section on accidental birds·classified according to the latest official American Ornithologists' Union checklist 4,000 full-color illustrations by the foremost bird artists at work todayand newly updated range maps that draw on the latest data New durable cover for added protection against adverse weather, plus informative quick-reference flaps that double as placemarkers New reader-friendly features like thumbtabs that make locating key sections faster and easier, and a quick-find index to direct users straight to the information they need.

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When many birders go out looking at shorebirds, they see a distant mud flat full of grayish brown birds in various shapes and sizes and have no idea where to begin the identification process.

When advanced birders look at that same flock of shorebirds, they can identify the vast majority of birds with a quick binocular scan. Experts use the simplest, most easily observed characteristics: size, structure, behavior, and general color patterns almost subconsciously, and can identify most birds even before looking carefully at plumage details.

Now birders of all levels can learn how to identify these wildly popular birds quickly and with much less effort. This guide provides more than 870 stunning color photographs, sequenced to give a general impression of a species first and progressing to a more detailed image of the bird throughout its life cycle. Captions list characteristics in order of importance, reflecting the thought process that experts use to identify birds.

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This 3 CD set covers more than 250 bird species of the Rocky Mountain states and provinces. This region is home to fascinating bird species such as Trumpeter Swan, Mountain Plover, White-tailed Ptarmigan, Sage Grouse, Sharp-tailed Grouse, Greater- and Lesser-Prairie Chicken, Williamson’s Sapsucker, Three-toed Woodpecker, Cordilleran Flycatcher, and many more.

Contains longer examples and more calls than any other guide. An ideal tool for identification and expanding one's repertoire of the birds of the Rocky Mountain territories.

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Indispensable for any outdoor enthusiast or explorer, this state atlas provides an unequaled combination of highway, back road, and off-road detail. Additional details include: dirt roads and trails; topographic contours; remote lakes and streams; hunting lands and fishing waters; forests and wetlands; public lands; scenic drives; hiking, cycling, and canoe trips; family attractions; museums and historic sites; and points of interest.

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