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Sto caricando le informazioni... Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion: A Comprehensive Resource for Identifying North American Birds (2006)di Pete Dunne
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. In this book, bursting with more information than any field guide could hold, the well-known author and birder Pete Dunne introduces readers to the "Cape May School," or GISS, method of identification, which focuses on a bird holistically, giving more weight to the general impression of the bird than to specific field marks. After determining the most likely possibilities by considering such factors as habitat and season, the birder uses characteristics such as size, shape, behavior, flight pattern, and vocalizations to identify a bird. The book provides an arsenal of additional hints and helpful clues to guide a birder when, even after a review of a field guide, the identification still hangs in the balance. This supplement to field guides shares the knowledge and skills that expert birders bring to identification challenges. As the title implies, this is not a field guide. There are no illustrations and no maps. Rather, this is the next best thing to going birding with an expert -- the little details and intangibles that experts use to identify birds, as well as textual descriptions of the appearance and range. (The descriptions aren't the reason to buy the book, though it's interesting to see Dunne's interpretations, as he often stresses different things than does the author of your favorite field guide.) The reason to buy this book are the other details -- accounts of behavior, general appearance, other birds (and, when relevant, other animals) found in the same locations, etc.) I've found this book both useful and fun, and recommend it to anyone wanting to go beyond field marks for bird identification. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In this book, bursting with more information than any field guide could hold, author and birder Pete Dunne introduces readers to the "Cape May School of Birding," an approach to identification that gives equal or more weight to a bird's structure and shape and the observer's overall impression (often called GISS, for General Impression of Size and Shape) than to specific field marks. After determining the most likely possibilities by considering such factors as habitat and season, the birder uses characteristics such as size, shape, color, behavior, flight pattern, and vocalizations to identify a bird. The book provides an arsenal of additional hints and helpful clues. This supplement to field guides shares the knowledge and skills that expert birders bring to identification challenges. Birding should be an enjoyable pursuit for beginners and experts alike, and Dunne combines playfulness with the work of identification.--From publisher description. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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