A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North America

by James C. Halfpenny

Book Overview

With Halfpenny's Field Guide to Mammal Tracking anyone can be a nature detective, able to reconstruct the behavior of mammals from mice to moose. Based on field research, the book brings the amateur... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0933472986
• ISBN13: 9780933472983
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: Johnson Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

This book belongs to the serious tracker

Great book to have on a tracker's shelf. I do not think this book should be the "soul" book an individual buys. If you would like to have just one book on the subject, Elbroch and Rezendez are the book you need to look at. This book is for gaits and behavior.

The answers you need

Many times in the field you only see a small portion of a track, or an indistinct line of marks, like in snow a line of tracks may be a line of little holes in the snow. . is there a way to still tell what the animal is and what it was doing. . YES. The answers are in this book in Dr. Halfpenny's methodical way of measuring gaits, stride, animal size and other clues. With this guide, as well as Mark Elbroch's heavier one on Mammal Tracks & Sign you can learn to track animals. By that I mean you can tell what animals were there, what they were doing and when, even when you can't see picture book examples in the mud or dust. This book (my third copy) is in my pack, and Mark's is in my car (with a second copy at home).

Better Than Tom Brown

More in depth tracks, skills, info, much better than any of Tom Browns books, also does not contain T.B.'s spirituality. The actual art this man retains is amazing!!! GREAT BOOK!!! There is a reason this book is almost always sold out!

Best Tracking Book I Know Of

I've read a number of tracking books and this one is the best. Easy to follow. Sensible. Lots on gait patterns and scats. James tells you what he knows and is careful not to pretend to know more than he does.

I highly recommend this book to all trackers and naturalists

This book has so much information about tracking that it will take a while to digest it all. The gait descriptions are thoroughly explained. Finer points of tracking and how to see tracks are well-defined. Explanations are written clearly and amply illustrated to make learning easier. This guide shows you how to identify not only the tracks, but the patterns and other signs left behind by animals. I have an extensive collection of books on tracking and I rate this one among the top three.