Most Popular Books by National Audubon Society

A guide that includes information about habitat, basic breeding, and a wild range of information about animals.

Perfect for mountain climbers, hikers, and geology enthusiasts, this valuable reference covers more rocks and minerals in North America than any other available guide. Featuring a durable vinyl binding and nearly 800 full-color identification photographs, the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals is the perfect companion for any expedition. This portable guide depicts all the important rocks, gems, and minerals -- in many variations of color and crystal form -- and the natural environments in which they occur, and includes written descriptions of field marks, similar rocks and minerals, environment, areas of occurrence, and derivation of names. Includes a guide to mineral collecting and a list of rock-forming minerals.

A photographic field guide to fossils.

Identifies and illustrates 360 species in the area ranging from the eastern seaboard to the Rocky Mountains.

Authoritative and comprehensive, this reference provides the necessary information about the biology, life cycles, and behavior of the 80 bird families of North America. For the new volume, Sibley has provided more than 796 full-color paintings to illustrate the essays and family chapters written by 44 ornithologists and expert birders.

Provides information about mollusks and their shells and how to identify them, along with detailed descriptions and photographs of fifty common North American shells.

A complete guide to landscape photography, from choosing the best equipment and learning field strategies for professional-quality pictures, to preparing digital images for publication.

Covering thirty-five of the most difficult groups of birds, from winter loons to confusing fall warblers, jaegers to chickadees, accipiters to flycatchers, this clearly written and beautifully illustrated field guide tells exactly how to solve the most challenging bird identification problems of North America.

The most comprehensive field guide available to the fabulous mysteries above--a must-have for any enthusiast''s day pack or home library--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. The National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky provides a concise guided tour of the heavens, from planets in our solar system to the constellations in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, stars, galaxies, astronomical bodies, phenomena, comets, and more. Featuring a durable vinyl binding, over 700 full-color photographs, sky charts, and constellation charts, as well as detailed descriptive text, this comprehensive, easy-to-use field guide is the perfect companion volume for any stargazer.

A portable, comprehensive field guide--brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, and designed to fit into your back pocket--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. This National Audubon Society Pocket Guide gives full coverage to 80 of the most common and distinctive mammals in North America, from the Arctic to the Mexican border, and from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. An additional 30 important mammals are included under the heading "Similar Species," raising to 110 the total number of mammals described in this guide.

National Audubon Society Pocket Guides Animal Tracks -- Birds (East and West) -- Birds of Prey -- Birds of Sea and Shore -- Butterflies -- Cacti -- Dinosaurs -- Flowers (East and West) -- Fossils -- Insects and Spiders -- Mammals -- Marine Mammals -- Mushrooms -- Reptiles and Amphibians -- Rocks and Minerals -- Seashells -- Seashore Creatures -- Songbirds (East and West) -- Trees (East and West) -- Waterfowl Also available National Audubon Society Field Guides National Audubon Society Nature Guides National Audubon Society Master Guides to Birding

Features descriptions of over 500 species of butterflies, as well as color range maps of the different species. Includes information on butterfly gardening, habitats and conservation.

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An advanced field handbook to the birds of North America: text by 61 key experts, with their personal secrets for identifying particular species with hundreds of color photographs and paintings. The first guide based on the new classification of the American Ornithologist''s Union.

"The Birder’s Bible" for more than 60 years, Roger Tory Peterson’s classic Field Guide to Western Birds includes all species found in North America west of the 100th meridian and north of Mexico. Featuring the unique Peterson Identification System, Western Birds contains 165 full-color paintings that show more than 1,000 birds from 700 species. Summer and winter ranges, breeding grounds, and other special range data are shown on easy-to-read range maps.

Identifies the tropical marine fish living off the coast of North America.

A portable, comprehensive field guide—brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, and designed to fit into your back pocket—from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. This streamlined volume contains an easy-to-use field guide identifying 80 familiar North American mushrooms, an outline of identifying mushrooms characteristics, the basics of when and where to look for mushrooms and certain distinguishing qualities of poisonous mushrooms. This pocket guide is teeming with information on this class of fungi; full-color photographs and descriptive line drawings, engaging mushroom lore on each individual mushroom species, specific identifying mushroom features, notes and warnings on each species'' edibility and their poisonous lookalike counter-parts, geographical information and a guide to various mushroom family traits. Whether you are mushroom-hunting to photograph and paint them, studying them scientifically, gathering then for culinary purposes or just for the rewarding experience in itself, the National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Mushrooms is a handy reference guide to have by your side.

The most comprehensive field guide available to the Pacific Northwest--a portable, essential companion for visitors and residents alike--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. This compact volume contains: An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of the region''s wildflowers, trees, mushrooms, mosses, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, butterflies, mammals, and much more; A complete overview of the Pacific Northwest''s natural history, covering geology, wildlife habitats, ecology, fossils, rocks and minerals, clouds and weather patterns and night sky; An extensive sampling of the area''s best parks, preserves, beaches, forests, islands, and wildlife sanctuaries, with detailed descriptions and visitor information for 50 sites and notes on dozens of others. The guide is packed with visual information -- the 1,500 full-color images include more than 1,300 photographs, 14 maps, and 16 night-sky charts, as well as 150 drawings explaining everything from geological processes to the basic features of different plants and animals. For everyone who lives or spends time in Washington or Oregon, there can be no finer guide to the area''s natural surroundings than the National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Pacific Northwest.

Text and 156 photographs explore the lives and activities of insects, featuring the most interesting and important insects, etc. Organized by major groups, each with a common ancestry or lifestyle.

A comprehensive guide to identifying more than 600 species of wildflowers from the eastern region of North America.

Covers eighty of the most common and frequently encountered tree species.

A revised edition of a how-to book on nature photography featuring many illustrations, advice, tips and analysis appropriate for both novice and experienced photographers.

Identifies more than 200 species of reptiles and amphibians.

An extensively illustrated guide to 39 species of hawks.

A guide to medicinal plants showing how to identifying 500 plants. Information on where the plants are found and detailed descriptions of all their known uses.