National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America (National Geographic Field Guide to Birds)

I love this book, I have an older edition that was ruined on a road trip, and this edition is just as helpful.

Very happy with this field guide. Carry it with me in the car. Worth the purchase.

Got this guide as a more simple, elderly friendly guide for my grandparents. They have bird feeders and love to watch the birds but never know what they are. They said this was very easy to read and well organized compared to the more thorough (and much smaller writing) Audubon guide. Also it’s region specific so they only have the species they may actually see. They love it and I’m happy they’re excited to learn something new!

I want a book on eastern America, this book has a lot of western America that takes up a lot of room.

When I go Birding, I always take a few books with me. This is one of them. I use this book primarily for cross reference, but use my Sibley's or Peterson's for initial identification. I like the detail of these paintings for some purposes. I find Sibley's paintings a bit more muted and less detailed...but more like what I bird looks like in real life when you see it quickly. My biggest complaint is that it is difficult to compare the Sparrows and Warblers. I wish there was a plate showing several species together. One way I remedies this was to cut the sparrow page out of a Golden Guides and stick it in this book. If I go for a short jaunt and only want to take one book with me, I prefer the Peterson's or Sibley's.

I bought this book for my husband who has become an avid birdwatcher. The books we had were for all of North America. This shows us the birds Of the East Coast and how they migrate. The book is full of information, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to identify local birds.

It’s easy on older eyes for reading. Birds are too dark tho.

I just received my National Geographic Birds of Eastern North America and I am very happy with my purchase. I love the alphabetical list of birds on the cover flap where I can find a bird quickly. The illustrations in the book are very well done and the information about each bird is exactly what I was looking for. I did find that the color of the birds are a bit darker than what you may see in the wild. I am an illustrator and know that color separating and printing can sometimes make the art lighter or darker than the original illustration. I recommend this book highly for the "backyard birdwatcher" especially!

Superb field guide. Well illustrated and goodbdetails.

There are bird silhouettes inside the covers to make ID fast and easy (if such a thing is possible). Details enough to ID the most localized bird, such as the Maritime Juvenile male woodpecker I saw. He matched no pictures, but by George, the word description of him was there in perfect detail.But I cannot find a particular bird that is everywhere in Orlando, try as I might. Probably not this book's fault!! It is a most thorough book. Sometimes i think I have an ID but then realize that pictures of a bird only in an area far from me, and have got to start again. I have no idea how one can work around this. Again, not the book's fault. Favourite bird book so far.

We live in Atlantic Canada and the NG Field Guide was extremely helpful to us, letting us identify birds that we see around our home every year, but could only guess at their genus, type, origins, etc. Highly recommend this guide.

I was really enjoying using this book, though I often find it useful to cross-reference with photos because the colours can be a bit dramatized.However, it's really not field-ready. A bit of dampness (not actually getting it wet) and most of the pages are inseparably stuck together. It's not very useful now.

What a great little book! I keep it near the window that overlooks our backyard and use it often to either ID a certain bird or simply just learn a bit more about them. It was recommended to me by a local birder and he did not steer me wrong.