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The classic, best-selling field guide from Peterson Field Guides

For decades, the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America has been a popular and trusted guide for birders of all levels, thanks to its famous system of identification... Read Full Overview

An easy-to-use, large print edition of the classic, best-selling field guide from Peterson Field Guides

The best-selling field guide since 1934, the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America features clear, succinct accounts of more than 500 species, accurate and beautiful paintings on 159 color plates, and 512 maps annotated with extensive range... Read Full Overview

The best-selling bird-song collection ever recorded. Includes 267 species -- all the most common and vocal birds found east of the Rockies.

Roger Tory Peterson had already made his mark with his innovative field guide when he conducted DDT research during World War II. His friend and fellow naturalist Rachel Carson built on these efforts and eventually wrote Silent Spring, a landmark text that, along with Peterson's... Read Full Overview

An easy-to-use, large print edition of the classic, best-selling field guide from Peterson Field Guides For decades, the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America has been a popular and trusted guide for birders of all levels, thanks to its famous system... Read Full Overview

Explore the Expanding Peterson Line. Leave your reading glasses behind. Now Roger Tory Peterson's classic Field Guide to Eastern Birds has been reissued in a larger format specially produced for those who don't want to take their reading glasses into the field. Peterson's treasured... Read Full Overview