320 of Pennsylvania's most abundant or notable bird species are color-illustrated in this handy, comprehensive field guide. A Quick Reference Guide organizes all species into color-coded family groupings. You'll also find a glossary of terms, a birder's checklist and separate indexes for scientific and common names. A map features the state's best birding sites and describes Pennsylvania's most notable viewing locations. Each species account includes a full-colour and detailed illustration, along with information about habitat, nesting, feeding, voice, similar species, as well as a range map that shows distribution of the species throughout the year as well as migratory pathways.
Roger Burrows has travelled throughout North America, spending many years in Atlantic Canada where he worked for Parks Canada as a naturalist, interpretive planner, and consultant. An avid birder, his expertise is apparent in page after page of information-packed introductions to the birding hotspots that grace the shores, fields, and woodlands of New Brunswick. He is also the author of several birding "bibles," including A Birdwatcher's Guide to Atlantic Canada and Birds of Atlantic Canada as well as Birds of Oregon, Birds of New England, Birds of Pennsylvania, and Birds of the Great Plains.
