Peterson Field Guide (R) to Birds of Texas

by Roger Tory Peterson

Book Overview

All the birds of Texas and most of those found in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana are illustrated here in 60 plates that show key features. Descriptions of 542 species, silhouttes, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395262526
• ISBN13: 9780395262528
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.5" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

Can not recommend.

I ordered two field guides for Texas birds at the same time. This book and “Birds of Texas” by Stan Tekiela. The first book doesn’t have every bird on color, nor does it have the picture of the bird right next to the description. I HIGHLY recommend the second book “Birds of Texas” if you’re looking for a Texas specific birding book. It has full page color photos of the birds along with their information right there together.

Time and improvements in Field Guides have made this book obsolete

In it's time ,this was a very good Field Guide for the Birds of Texas by Roger Tory Peterson,the unquestioned best author of Bird Field Guides at the time. However,that was when it was first published in 1960.However;50 years later there are much better Field Guides to choose from.Also,one can buy several guides that cover all the birds in North America,thus making a guide like this unnecessary. I would strongly advise that one should first buy a guide such as "The National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America,5th Edition " that I reviewed on November 9,2006.There are many other reviews there as well that describe that and other guides and what to look for when buying a "Bird Book".If you want a guide,and don't have that one;you will never regret buying it.Most birders own several different guides,but the one most popular with most birders is the Nat.Geo.

Peterson's Birds of Texas

I bought this book to supplement Peterson's Birds of Mexico et al. for a trip to the Yucatan peninsula. My goal was to obtain color pictures of all the birds in Cozumel and the nearby peninsula of Yucatan. To be complete in this regard, one needs both North American Eastern and Western Peterson books and the Texas book and the Mexican book. On a bird-watching hike in the Yucatan peninsula I carried Peterson East, Texas and Mexico. The illustrations were almost complete as compared to a checklist of birds of Cozumel (Google). Peterson is very succinct and misses few field marks.