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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 10 reviews)
Sales Rank: 83544
Category: Book
Authors: David Fix, Andy Bezener
Publisher: Lone Pine Publishing
Studio: Lone Pine Publishing
Manufacturer: Lone Pine Publishing
Label: Lone Pine Publishing
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 155105227X
Dewey Decimal Number: 598
UPC: 779101052279
EAN: 9781551052274
ASIN: 155105227X
Publication Date: February 2000
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Product Description
Learn about 320 species of Northern California birds in fascinating detail. Descriptions, illustrations and range maps help you identify birds and understand their habits. A checklist helps you keep a list of your birding accomplishments. Perfect for beginner birders and beyond.
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 Quite good July 26, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Quite good. Like the indexing the most. Very handy for newer birders to the area or people starting with birding in Norcal (highly recommend).
3 areas could improve.
1- comparison section is good, but does not cover similar looking birds of other families (e.g: compares short billed dowitcher with long billed dowitcher but need this to be clapper rail vs willet vs dowitcher)
2- need pictures of both flight and sitting positions for some birds (e.g: different hawks, others like northern mockingbirds)
3- a bit smaller size will make this a better field guide
 Birds of Northern California January 11, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Illustrations are excellent. Descriptions are brief and informative. Data is organized in a logical and structural way. Easy to use. Cover is sturdy, but light. I bought 4 copies for myself and as gifts.
The BEST Northern California bird book.... April 17, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
What can I say, except that this is THE best Northern California bird book in existence....and in fact, it may well be the best bird book ever written! Over the years I've used a wide variety of bird identification books, including Sibley, Audubon/Peterson, etc...
Nothing matches this beautiful volume, from its fantastic color drawings/renditions to its sensitive and detailed textual comments, etc.
 Helpful but limited March 21, 2006
Unfortunately, the illustrations in this book are of varying quality, with some looking as though they were painted from specimens. Moreover, there are no flight depictions, just static poses. However, the book is useful for focusing your attention on the set of species you need to know in northern California. I recommend using a Sibley identification guide with this book.
Very Best of Its Kind March 4, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I am an advanced-amateur birder, and I own four separate bird guides. I live in the Bay Area, and this is by far the guide I use the most. I've owned it for three years, and virtually every bird I've seen has been within its pages. It's very easy to navigate because of its "thumbnails" in the opening pages - you can easily spot your bird there without having to flip through the whole guide.
It's also very well written. It is always eloquent, occasionally humorous, and does a wonderful job of capturing the personality and "feel" of each bird. A problem I have with the overrated Audubon guide, and even sometimes with the fine Sibley and Stokes guides, is that they are too consistently technical. They rarely give unusual background or personality information about the birds. By contrast, this Fix-Bezener guide has something pleasurable to read in every entry.
Some folks might want to supplement this guide with the Stokes Field Guide, Western Region, because it includes photographs. Or perhaps with a Sibley guide if you really want to get into the details. But for 90% of Northern California birders, this single guide will do just fine.
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