Birder's Journal [Paperback]

Mel M. Baughman (Author), George Reiger (Author), Nell E. Fronabarger (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1993

With detailed drawings from the Society's "Field Guide", this book offers generous space for jotting notes about the site, situation, and date for each bird spotted. More than 280 artwork plates.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Stackpole Books (July 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811725146
• ISBN-13: 978-0811725149
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,211,003 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Almost perfect!, July 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: National Geographic Birders Journal (Paperback)

I have been using the Cornell Lab's "Birder's Diary and Life List" for a couple of years now, but this book has just replaced it. The Nationl Geographic Birder's Journal has more room for notes and I like having the illustrations alongside my notes. It also has the advantage of having ALL of the birds of North America (which the Cornell book does not). The only drawback I found was that there is no quick easy way to see how many birds are on your life list (Cornell's book has pages with numbered, blank lines where you enter the birds as you see them). Over all, though I feel this is an excellent addition to my birding library.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A excellent journal to record information on bird sightings., August 23, 1998

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[e-mail] (Atlanta, Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Birder's Journal (Paperback)

The journal is a useful tool to record information on your bird sightings. The book is divided into 60 chapters by North American bird famalies. The chapter introduction includes a brief description of each bird family and where it can be located.

Each of the 500 birds shown has a half page in the book with a black and white line drawing of the bird, the birds name, common name and a space for date and location of sighting. Another 6 or 7 lines of space is provided for each bird for recording notes on the sighting.

The author encourages readers to use colored pencils to color the markings for each bird seen.

The book is easy to use. The large 7" x 10" pages provide a lot of room to record your observations.

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interested but not professional, February 22, 2000

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R. Hartell (Telephone, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: National Geographic Birders Journal (Paperback)

I slowly became interested in birds through some of my travels and wanted to keep some kind of record of what I was seeing. I'm not a member of a formal birding organization which has more defined and focused goals for recording bird sightings. I found this book to be more than I really wanted. I have the NG Field Guide to North American Birds (which I love and have given as gifts to friends), and the Birder's Journal is a black-and-white copy with lines where the description would be in the Field Guide. For simple noting of sightings, the Field Guide itself is sufficient. There is space in the margin beside the bird's description and a checkbox by the name in the index which lets you keep a list as well. However, if you need space to keep copious notes, this book gives that space. I would have liked something more easily transportable with a spiral binding for ease of writing.