Brand new, portable field guides from Donald and Lillian Stokes, THE NEW STOKES FIELD GUIDE TO BIRDS: EASTERN REGION & THE NEW STOKES FIELD GUIDE TO BIRDS: WESTERN REGION [Little, Brown and Company; March 26, 2013; $19.99] are based on the best-selling The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America. Whether you are a novice or experienced birder, these two new Stokes guides will take your birding to the next level.
The guides have everything birders want including:
- Thousands (over 2,200 in the eastern edition and 2,400 in the western edition) of gorgeous, carefully chosen photos of species showing all distinct field marks and plumages including: male, female, summer, winter, recognizable ages, morphs, important subspecies, and birds in flight.
- More photos per species of hard to identify birds. Difficult species are shown from every important angle.
- The most complete and extensive identification guide of any other North American field guide, including both photographic and drawn guides.
- Descriptions of all subspecies and hybrids, features found in no other guide.
o Cutting edge emphasis on quantitative shape as the way to fast-forward bird identification.
o The newest scientific names.
o Special help for identifying birds in flight through important clues of behavior, plumage, and shape.
- Detailed descriptions of songs and calls.
o The newest range maps, detailing species' winter, summer, year-round ranges, and migration routes.
Donald and Lillian Stokes, whom Birding Business has called "birding's first family," met 30 years ago when Lillian attended one of Don's birding classes. They have dedicated their marriage to birding, and maintain a bird sanctuary at their home, the 48- acre Bobolink Farm in New Hampshire. Active members of the American birding community, they maintain busy travel and speaking schedules, as well as the Stokes Birding Blog, with frequent updates and photos of their recent sightings. A few years ago they produced and hosted the popular PBS series Stokes Birds at Home. Visit: www.stokesbirdingblog.blogspot.com
THE NEW STOKES FIELD GUIDE TO BIRDS: Eastern Region and Western Region
By Donald and Lillian Stokes
Little, Brown and Company
March 26, 2013
Eastern: 512 pages | 2,200 color photographs | $19.99 | 978-0-316-21393-6 Western: 592 pages | 2,400 color photographs |$19.99 | 978-0-3162-1392-9
For more information or to set up an interview with Donald & Lillian Stokes, please contact Morgan Moroney at 212-364-1577 or morgan.moroney@hbgusa.com.
Praise for The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America:
"This is unequivocally the most spectacular compendium of North American bird identification photographs ever assembled between two covers. ...this monumental volume offers birders the most up-to-date information on field identification of North American birds currently available....[it] significantly resets the bar for North America field guides."
- Wayne Petersen, Massachusetts Audubon Society
"This is by far the most comprehensive North American field guide I have in my possession. There are so many nice modern features that make this field guide extremely useful and user-friendly. I could go on and on. "
- Idaho Birding Blog
"[I]f one is going to own a photographic field guide for the birds of North America, the Stokes now have the most complete book on the market...you can't go wrong with this guide."
-10,000 Birds Blog
"This is a glorious book put together with loving attention to detail...a superb, good-value field guide."
-BBC Wildlife
"The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America is an easy-to-use, superbly designed field guide that is detailed enough to be useful for birders of all experience levels. Highly recommended."
-About.com Birding Guide
