Birds of Southeastern Arizona Author: Visit Amazon's Richard Cachor Taylor Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0964081075 | Format: PDF
Birds of Southeastern Arizona Description
About the Author
Rick Taylor has been a lifelong resident of Southeastern Arizona. Rick conducted an eight-year-long study of the Elegant Trogon that led to the publication of Trogons of the Arizona Borderlands in 1994. During the course of his research he reported the first Eared Quetzal seen in the U.S. In 1980 he founded Borderland Tours, a birding travel company dedicated to responsible ecotourism as a means of providing an economic platform for the preservation of the world s wildlife communities. In 1995 the American Birding Association published his A Birder s Guide to Southeastern Arizona, which he revised in 2005. He is also the author of location bird checklists for both the Huachuca and the Chiricahua Mountains
- Paperback: 440 pages
- Publisher: R.W. Morse Company; 1 edition (August 31, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0964081075
- ISBN-13: 978-0964081079
- Product Dimensions: 6 x 4.5 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Basics: softcover, 2010, 430pp; small format (6x4 inches) photo guide shows all regularly occurring species plus most vagrants; 412 species shown in 600+ very good color photographs; shows plumages for male/female, breeding/non-breeding, local subspecies, and the multiple subspecies that routinely occur; one paragraph of text concisely points out field marks plus information on similar species, voice, status, habitat, and behavior.
Focusing on one of the more potent and intriguing birding regions of the US, this compact photo guide does a great job of showing 412 species found in Southeast Arizona. This accounts for all the expected birds found anytime of the year plus nearly all of the vagrants and rarities. The 600+ color photographs are of good quality and, despite the smaller page size, they zoom in on each bird to maximize its size in the photograph.
Of the many small photo guides that focus on a state's assortment of birds, this book by Taylor is easily the best for several reasons. One, as noted above, it shows all the birds in the region except for just a few birds known by only a few records. Two, this book displays the correct subspecies found in SE Arizona. This is important because it avoids generic coverage (and mistakes) found in other books. Three, each bird is shown with multiple plumages when notable gender, seasonal, or race differences occur. Just to point it out, the rather different plumages of immature hawks, juncos, or towhees are not shown.
I especially appreciate the inclusion of multi-plumages. Examples include five subspecies of Dark-eyed Junco, three Fox Sparrows, and three Red-tailed Hawks.
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