Customer Reviews

Birds of Oregon Field Guide

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This is the best field guide I've ever seen, for any state, region or country. Birds are grouped by color, making it easy for the novice birder. Includes large color photograph of every bird with separate pictures to differentiate females and juveniles. In addition to basic information, interesting behaviorial tidbits are included for each species. I could not be happier with this book.

While I've used a number of more general wildlife guides, both in the Northwest U.S., and in travels around the world, I've never used one focused solely on birding. Thus, my short review must be taken with a grain of salt. However, I am repeatedly amazed at how fast I find a bird that's suddenly come within view. Further, I've yet to come across a bird in Oregon that I haven't been able to find in this book. AND The book is small enough to lug along on short backpacking trips -- as long as you're not also lugging a load of novels that must be read while sitting alone, next to a Cascadian mountain lake, of course.

I like this book because it is simple and easy to use. Because it is color coded by birds. Its great for the beginner birder. Plus it let's you check off the birds you have seen in the back of the book. I would definatly recommend this book to any beginner birder as their first book of purchase!

Unlike some other field guides, this book is simple to use, has a great summary of each bird, and a handy checklist at the back where you can track the variety of birds you've seen. There have been a couple of birds I've seen in Oregon that weren't listed (i.e., Northern Pygmy Owl) but for the most part, this is a very comprehensive guide for the novice, or experienced birder. Recommend for young people as well to introduce them to the hobby!

I was soo addicted to my old Peterson guide, and I bought this for my Mom, who loves the format. After using it a few times, I like it better. Its a good little, usable field guide. Now we keep three bird books in a basket with two sets of glasses everytime we sit out in the yard. Mom grabs this one first, then I wrestle it away from her. Pity summers ending.
wish I could buy a copy of his birds of Willamette valley on amazon.

I live in Central Oregon and have thoroughly been enjoying using this book to figure out what birds are coming to my backyard feeders. Rarely have I had to use the internet to figure out what type of bird is in my backyard. I am very happy that I purchased this book and recommend it to anyone living in Oregon who enjoys bird watching!

This is an excellent, information-packed little book--compact and comprehensive, with brightly colored pictures that make bird recognition fast and easy.

Really great book my son carries it everywhere. We bought it last year as a gift. He loves to tell me what bird is doing what in the back yard. Even if it is male or female. We take it camping and on road trips. It is a lot of fun for our family. My 3yo now will tell me what bird is in our neighbors yard.
I put 4/5 stars for some reason it doesn't show the bird my family always called a blue jay...we see them often in our yard and I did as a kid growing up, but there is nothing like it in the book so how that can be I don't know. Kind of frustrating! Very easy to use!!! Set up by color, very nice photos to identify, nice maps showing areas that they live, and what season they live there if they migrate. Super cool. : )

My favorite field guide so far. Easy to use and good photos. It can be hard to "look" up a bird as they are arranged by color only rather than type and color. I have had some trouble finding a bird based on color for instance: I will see a bird that I consider mostly brown, but the book considers the bird to be mostly gray. So you have to check all possible colors for the bird.

Very informational book,yet the colors in some of the pictures seem "off",maybe due to the printing?