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Birds of Prey of the West: A Field Guide
Brian K. Wheeler
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Description for Birds of Prey of the West: A Field Guide
Paperback. BIC Classification: RG. .
Birds of Prey of the West and its companion volume, Birds of Prey of the East, are the most comprehensive and authoritative field guides to North American birds of prey ever published. Written and lavishly illustrated with stunning, lifelike paintings by leading field-guide illustrator, photographer, and author Brian Wheeler, the guides depict an enormous range of variations of age, sex, color, and plumage, and feature a significant amount of plumage data that has never been published before. The painted figures illustrate plumage and species comparisons in a classic field-guide layout. Each species is shown in the same posture and from ... Read more
Birds of Prey of the West and its companion volume, Birds of Prey of the East, are the most comprehensive and authoritative field guides to North American birds of prey ever published. Written and lavishly illustrated with stunning, lifelike paintings by leading field-guide illustrator, photographer, and author Brian Wheeler, the guides depict an enormous range of variations of age, sex, color, and plumage, and feature a significant amount of plumage data that has never been published before. The painted figures illustrate plumage and species comparisons in a classic field-guide layout. Each species is shown in the same posture and from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691117188
SKU
V9780691117188
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Brian K. Wheeler
Brian K. Wheeler has been studying, painting, and photographing birds of prey throughout the United States and Canada for more than fifty years. He is the illustrator of Hawks of North America (Peterson Field Guides), the coauthor and photographer of A Photographic Guide to North American Raptors (Princeton), and the author and photographer of Raptors of Eastern North America and ... Read more
Reviews for Birds of Prey of the West: A Field Guide
The spectacular color illustrations and detailed text should make Birds of Prey of the East and Birds of Prey of the West welcome additions to the library of any serious aficionado of diurnal birds of prey-or to anyone who has ever looked skyward and marveled at the grandeur of a soaring raptor. -Wayne R. Petersen, Mass Audubon North American ... Read more