The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior
by David Allen Sibley
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Author: David Allen SibleyBrand: Random
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-07-28
ISBN: 1400043867
Number of pages: 608
Publisher: Knopf
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Book Review: Excellent companion to The Sibley Guide to Birds
Summary: 5 Stars
News flash: we Boomers are finally growing up. A favorite childhood game, 'Simon Says,' has been displaced by 'Sibley Says.' Ask seasoned birders for assistance with bird IDs and chances are they will refer to David Allen Sibley. Just as The Sibley Guide to Birds is a classic starting point for building birding skills, The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior is a very good companion reference, useful for understanding birds in the context of the environments they frequent, their behavior, anatomy, and much more. Sometimes a scan of current environmental conditions is more useful in identifying a bird than having a good photo, and this book offers a much deeper treatment than is provided by most field guides, the Sibley Guide to Birds included.
This book is mostly written by renowned ornithologists whose biographies are helpfully available in the appendix. Sibley has performed his usual magic illustrating the book throughout, and the format is nicely organized for the lay reader. The well-written introduction is a fine orientation to bird names, classifications and conservation efforts. Part 1 is an excellent 'Ornithology 101,' Part 2 a comprehensive collection of nicely written essays on specific North American bird families.
Whenever somebody asks what I want from Santa I say Sibley. I have several of his books and they are top shelf.
Summary of The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior
?Once in a great while, a natural history book changes the way people look at the world. In 1838, John ames Audubon?s Birds of America was one...In 1934, Roger Tory Peterson produced Field Guide to the Birds...Now comes The Sibley Guide to Birds.?Thus did The New York Times, in 1999, greet David Allen Sibley?s monumental book, which has quickly been established nationwide as the peerless, standard bird identification guide.
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior is the new landmark book from David Allen Sibley. Designed to enhance the birding experience and to enrich the popular study of North American birds, the book combines more than 795 of his full-color illustrations with authoritative text by 48 expert birders and biologists. In this new guide Sibley takes us beyond identification, to show us how birds live and what they do.
Introductory essays outline the principles of avian evolution, life cycle, body structure, flight dynamics, and more. The 80 family-by-family chapters describe the amazing range of behavior dictated by birds? biology and environment. Among the subjects covered and illustrated are:
--molts and plumages
--habitats
--food and foraging
--vocalizations and displays
--courtship and breeding
--rearing of young
--migration and movements
--scientific groupings
--introduced species
--accidental species
--anatomy
--flight patterns
--nests and eggs
--conservation
--global distribution
Accessibly written, superbly designed and organized, and brilliantly illustrated, The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior is an indispensable source of information on the avian life around us.
From the creator of the seminal field guide, The Sibley Guide to Birds, comes another indispensable book for bird watchers. This veritable bible to the world of birds is the collaborative effort of 48 expert birders and biologists, who combine scientific accuracy and detail with an easily readable and well-organized format. How does a tiny chickadee survive subzero temperatures? How do flocks of birds synchronize their flights? How can an albatross cross miles of ocean without flapping its wings? Which bird brains are actually intelligent? It's all here in essays giving an overview of avian evolution, biology, and the aerodynamics of flight and in chapters devoted to the 80 bird families of North America, each one detailing taxonomy, habitats, feeding, breeding, vocalizations, migrations, and more. Concerned about declining populations, Sibley also discusses the conservation status of each species and the factors that threaten them. This fascinating source of information is destined to be a well-thumbed companion. -- Lesley Reed
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