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Florida's Fabulous Waterbirds: Their Stories

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This was a wonderful book. I had to buy it for an ecology class on the Everglades, but it was well worth it. It has beautiful large color illustrations, and descriptions of the various water birds of Florida. A great investment whether you plan to visit, like I did, or just to enjoy the book by itself. Really useful in identifying birds, especially wading, in the cypress swamps, as well as the entire Everglades water shed. A must buy.

This gives you tips for differentiating between an anhinga and a cormorant (pointed or hooked beak) or snowy egret vs American egret (black vs yellow beak). Also shows chicks, immature birds, breeding plumage and females that vary in coloration.
The photos are large (some even full page), colorful and a real help in identifying the birds. It is a good browsing book as well, to just enjoy the birds flying, eating, swimming, etc.
Only 60+ pages, but the oversize format makes it a great souvenir of a trip to Florida or a resource for bird lovers or Florida residents. Actually it is useful to anyone living in the South or the Gulf coast states where these birds can be seen.
It includes coots, ducks, egrets, flamingos, frigatebirds, gallinules, gulls, herons, ibis, kingfisher, limpkins, osprey, pelicans, sandpipers, skimmers, spoonbills, storks and terns.

NOT the book for experienced birders. Absolutely perfect for the dabbler as you will always be able to easily and quickly find your bird in this book. Though the book does provide a limited number of facts and descriptions of each bird, it should be used more as a visual guide to help you learn the name of each bird species.

This is an awesome book with great fun facts. The pictures are beautiful! If you are a fan of Florida and the waterbirds, you will love this book and want to display it for others to see.

Although this book is skinnier than Florida's Fabulous Birds (inland birds), it features all the waterbirds you need to know. This is one of my favorites, because of the great action photos and humorous captions. We live in SW Florida, so these are "our" birds--the ones we see all the time when out in the kayak or camping in our RV. True, it doesn't go into scientific details about every aspect of waterbirds, but it's not written for birders. Florida has a lot of fascinating birds, some as tall as small humans, and this is a great overview for nature lovers of all ages from 1 to 100.

This gives you tips for differentiating between an anhinga and a cormorant (pointed or hooked beak) or snowy egret vs American egret (black vs yellow beak). Also shows chicks, immature birds, breeding plumage and females that vary in coloration.
The photos are large (some even full page), colorful and a real help in identifying the birds. It is a good browsing book as well, to just enjoy the birds flying, eating, swimming, etc.
Only 60+ pages, but the oversize format makes it a great souvenir of a trip to Florida or a resource for bird lovers or Florida residents. Actually it is useful to anyone living in the South or the Gulf coast states where these birds can be seen.
It includes coots, ducks, egrets, flamingos, frigatebirds, gallinules, gulls, herons, ibis, kingfisher, limpkins, osprey, pelicans, sandpipers, skimmers, spoonbills, storks and terns.

My husband is an avid birdwatcher & has many detailed books on identification of birds, but this has stories & excellent pictures of the birds included.

We love this series of Florida books and own them all. This is one of our favorites in the series. As recent transpants to Florida, we appreciate the ease of determining exactly what bird we are looking at and what it's characteristics are. It is a huge help in determining which birds, big or small, that we have seen while hiking, biking, kayaking, etc. Easy to find the bird you want with the big colorful photos. Lots of useful info.

This is a great book. Nice pictures and good information. I have most of the Florida's Fabulous books and they are all great.