Comments on: Review of Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America http://birdfreak.com/review-of-smithsonian-field-guide-to-the-birds-of-north-america/ Bird Conservation Marketing - Promoting Conservation Through Birding Tue, 22 May 2012 15:03:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Review of the iFlyer Birdsong Scanning Wand http://birdfreak.com/review-of-smithsonian-field-guide-to-the-birds-of-north-america/comment-page-1/#comment-11082 Review of the iFlyer Birdsong Scanning Wand Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:39:34 +0000 http://birdfreak.com/?p=2269#comment-11082 [...] that not all field guides have adequate room for these stickers. We placed ours in the Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America but some names were partially covered up. The stickers do have the species name on them, so you [...] [...] that not all field guides have adequate room for these stickers. We placed ours in the Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America but some names were partially covered up. The stickers do have the species name on them, so you [...]

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]]> By: The Birdfreak Team http://birdfreak.com/review-of-smithsonian-field-guide-to-the-birds-of-north-america/comment-page-1/#comment-5483 The Birdfreak Team Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:36:19 +0000 http://birdfreak.com/?p=2269#comment-5483 Oops! Slip of the keys when trying to write that Mr. Floyd is the editor of Birding and the writer of this guide. In doing this review we were attempting to give this guide its own category amongst the onslaught of field guides. (We forgot to apply our usual rating system but this guide would have still gotten a 9 of 10 feathers). We were more impressed with the addition of providing bird songs with the guide and thus projecting it for the class of teenage/newer birders (but not totally new). Oops! Slip of the keys when trying to write that Mr. Floyd is the editor of Birding and the writer of this guide.

In doing this review we were attempting to give this guide its own category amongst the onslaught of field guides. (We forgot to apply our usual rating system but this guide would have still gotten a 9 of 10 feathers). We were more impressed with the addition of providing bird songs with the guide and thus projecting it for the class of teenage/newer birders (but not totally new).

]]> By: Rick Wright http://birdfreak.com/review-of-smithsonian-field-guide-to-the-birds-of-north-america/comment-page-1/#comment-5474 Rick Wright Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:47:50 +0000 http://birdfreak.com/?p=2269#comment-5474 I have to protest. Ted Floyd is the a u t h o r of this guide, not the editor. And there's a great deal more here to appeal to "advanced" birders than in Kaufman or (good gracious) Peterson. The introductory comments on birding as a neo-typological enterprise are worth the price of admission, and the fact that each species is assigned to a molt strategy is priceless. The photographs are, simply put, the best collection in any guide using that medium, and there are new and wonderful nuggets of information in nearly every species account. Read this book again, guys! :) r I have to protest. Ted Floyd is the a u t h o r of this guide, not the editor. And there’s a great deal more here to appeal to “advanced” birders than in Kaufman or (good gracious) Peterson. The introductory comments on birding as a neo-typological enterprise are worth the price of admission, and the fact that each species is assigned to a molt strategy is priceless. The photographs are, simply put, the best collection in any guide using that medium, and there are new and wonderful nuggets of information in nearly every species account.
Read this book again, guys!
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