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Birds of Minnesota Field Guide, Second Edition

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This book and all the other "Birds of (state)" guides by Stan Tekiela seem to bring out the worst in experienced birders. While I am a beginner at birding, this dislike of Tekiela's guides is somewhat understandable. To experienced birders, a bird guide in which the birds are listed by color, not taxonomy, is bordering on criminal. Many of those birders seem to have forgotten that they were once novices and likely confused sparrows with wrens or finches.

A beginning birder is likely to be overwhelmed by all the birds listed in a Sibley Guide, Kaufmann Focus Guide, or even a Peterson Guide. What better for a beginner than a book that lists the 100+ most common birds in their state in order of color. You see a brown bird with a small beak and a light yellow chest, you flip to the brown birds and only have to browse through 40 or so birds to try and find what you saw. Easy.

After a few months, you'll begin to recognize sparrows, finches, warblers for what they are (maybe not the exact species) and will want a more advanced book.

This book is the best at what it is. A guide for beginning birders or people who only look at birds out in their backyard feeders. Don't compare it to the Sibley, Kaufmann, etc....

Highly Recommended!

I just moved to a townhouse that has a plethera of birds feeding off bush berries and feeders. Am enjoying starting to watch them. I know next to nothing about birds...only could ID the Robin, Cardinal and Blue Jay. There are many others that I didn't have a clue about. I like the fact that you can look up the birds by color. Easy to find and ID via this method. Also gets you curious about the other birds you are passing by....have been reading up on all of them. Great book for a beginner like myself.

This little book is a very good value for the money. It doesn't contain all the birds of Minnesota but it contains most. I think the color pictures of both male and female of each species are excellent!

Organized nicely, with quick references to birds that have overall colors. Basic description of the birds and what to look for to identify male and female birds.

Seems very complete and gives information for a definate area of the US. This is definately zero's in on what birds I am most likely to see.

Yes - this book is for the birds - about the birds - and absolutely wonderful. We are "livingroom window" bird watchers and our one feeder draws an amazing variety of birds. Never get tired of referring to this book as our bird visitors change with the seasons.

Birds of Minnesota Field Guide, Second Edition

This is a great book to use and learn about the Birds. I have bought 3 of them and for some reason they always disapeer.I just love love it.

I love this book. It is so easy to look up a bird that you have no idea what it is. Just look under its color and you will find it.

We are studying birds in school and this book has really helped us identify many of the more common and some not-so-common birds in our area. I like how the book is laid out. It's colorful and the pictures are great for helping id birds and their mates. It is also organized by color so kids are able to find the birds fast. We get lots of birds on our feeder and this book has been great for quickly finding the types of birds that are in our yard. It also has other helps to such as what kinds of nests the birds use, where they are located in MN, color of eggs and how many, as well as notes from the author about each bird. This book is a great help to anyone who needs a little help identifying local birds.

Getting a lot of use of this book - Birds of Minnesota. Thanks. It is in great condition, easy to read and easy to look up the bird you are wanting to name.