"A new edition of the classic, best-selling field guide from Peterson Field Guides"--

A simplified field guide to the common birds of North America.

Photographs, paintings, and simple text present different birds and some avian features for each letter of the alphabet.

In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific Northwest, and into Alaska's Pribilof Islands. Two years later, Wild America, their classic account of the trip, was published. On the eve of that book's...