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Kaufman Field Guide To Butterflies Of North America (Kaufman Focus Guides, 0) Hardcover – Illustrated, September 1, 2006

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The most user-friendly butterfly guide ever published, still handy and compact.

- Includes color plates of Mexican-border rarities
- More than 2,300 images of butterflies in natural poses
- Pictorial table of contents
- Convenient one-page index
- Range maps on text pages

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Mariner Books
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September 1, 2006
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4.5 x 0.62 x 7.5 inches
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0618768262
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"Even better than his very good bird guide. This is the best butterfly guidebook I have seen." Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"A terrific book for anyone interested in butterflies." Pittsburg Post Gazette

"This book sets a new level in natural history ID field guides." - Hank Brodkin, author of Butterflies of Arizona, and member, North American Butterfly Association —

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KENN KAUFMAN, originator of the Kaufman Field Guide series, is one of the world’s foremost naturalists.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mariner Books; Illustrated edition (September 1, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 392 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0618768262
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0618768264
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.28 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.5 x 0.62 x 7.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #34,876 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #6 in Biology of Butterflies
- #25 in Trees in Biological Sciences
- #142 in Biology (Books)

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Kenn Kaufman is a legend among birders. A field editor for AUDUBON and a regular contributor to every major birding magazine, he is the youngest person ever to receive the Ludlow Griscom Award, the highest honor of the American Birding Association. His natural history pursuits have taken him to all seven continents, but he has made a special study of North American birds. His books include KINGBIRD HIGHWAY, LIVES OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS, the PETERSON FIELD GUIDE TO ADVANCED BIRDING, in addition to originating the KAUFMAN FIELD GUIDE series, which includes books on birds, butterflies, mammals, and insects. He resides in Rocky Ridge, Ohio.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2023

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Easy to read, follow, and find what you're looking for. Color tabs along the side make for quick research.
Says hardcover, but was a paperback.
Still a nice book that isn't too big.

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A really well-organized, well-written and well-illustrated field guide that gets the job done!

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2016

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I have long been a supporter of accurate paintings/drawings as illustrations for natural history field guides and still think that the illustrations in many of the volumes in the Peterson field guide series are generally better than their photographic counterparts. However, as a casual observer of butterflies in the field, I have not been happy with the illustrations in A Field Guide to Eastern Butterflies by Paul Opler, illustrated by Vichai Malikul, in the Peterson series. For example, in the Opler & Malikul book the illustrations for distinguishing apart in dorsal view the Painted Lady Vanessa cardui and the American Lady Vanessa virginiensis are quite inadequate (Opler & Malikul Plate 23). So I was looking for an alternative and the comments by other reviewers of the Kaufman Field Guide to Butterflies of North America by Jim P. Brock and Kenn Kaufman encouraged me to purchase this book. I have used the book only for a short time but I too have found the digitally edited photographs perfect for the purpose of illustrating a butterfly field guide. The range of illustrations is excellent and the depiction of the butterflies as they are seen in nature (rather than as pinned and spread museum specimens) is very helpful and appropriate. Of course I will continue to check Opler's text and Malikul's illustrations in the Peterson guide but my "go to" book of choice for butterfly identification will now be the Brock & Kaufman volume. A really well-organized, well-written and well-illustrated field guide that gets the job done!

56 people found this helpful

Go-to guide for identifying and studying butterflies

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2022

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As a beginner, I found the grouped photo summaries in the beginning of the book, helpful in zeroing in on which butterfly I was watching. Photos and illustrations of actual size of each butterfly are well done and helpful.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2022

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I'm an entomologist. This is the best quick visual reference on the market.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2022

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Excellent Butterfly book! Exceeds expectations!

The Ultimate Book For Easy Identification for Beginners

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2006

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There is one big problem with all Kaufman Focus Guides - they don't make a broad enough line of them! If I were able to have only 1 book on a given subject (birds, butterflies, mammals, etc.) I would always choose the Kaufman Focus Guide. I find their excellent pictures far superior to the illustrations that most books use, for one thing.

I shoot a lot of nature pictures and wanted to identify the butterfly and moth shots I was getting. I have several other guides - National Audubon Field Guide to Insects & Spiders - Golden Guide to Butterflies & Moths, Peterson First Guide to Butterflies & Moths. But the Kaufman book makes it easy to find and identify a species and to find the very subtle differences between very similar butterflies.

The pictorial table of contents makes it easy to understand various groupings of butterflies. I saw one review critical for the taxonomic system the book uses... the relevant thing for me, as an amateur, was to be able to quickly and easily make an identification and to have accurate information to distinguish between many different butterflies that look very much alike. This book definitely fills the bill. As another reviewer mentioned, it would certainly have been nice to have caterpillars included - but few things are perfect.

If you just want to identify butterflies - this is the book to get!

38 people found this helpful

Best Butterfly ID Book

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2022

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Easy to use, with great pictures and maps.

Cynthia Traylor

Best North American butterfly identification book everrrrrr!!!!

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2013

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This book encompasses close to everything you need to know to identify butterflies. A must have for everybody from beginners to experts. I have several copies of this book and the previous edition as well. I keep one in my truck, my desk at home, my office, my camera bag, at the ranch and have given several to friends and relatives. Great pics with Identification markings, range, seasons, host plants and so much more!

All the top ratings this book has received prove it is the best investment you'll ever make. This edition includes rarities from my area of south Texas that everyone north of me can only drool or should I say dream about. Anyone who comes to south Texas will get to see several hundred butterflies identified in this book. Durable indeed and it fits into the back pocket of your jeans too!

Now if we could only convince the authors to publish one that includes photos of each butterfly species egg, caterpillar stages, chrysalis and larval host plants! I'd need a wheelbarrow to haul it around no doubt but I'd surely never need to buy any other butterfly or caterpillar book!

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adilene

Buen libro

Reviewed in Mexico on August 19, 2019

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El libro en sí está muy lindo, el problema es que venía sin plástico que lo cubriera por lo tanto tenía algunos rayones y pequeñas tachaduras

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Alejandro

The best

Reviewed in Mexico on September 23, 2019

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A very interesting and easy-to-use book.

Alberto Sánchez

No funciona para México. Únicamente especies por encima del trópico.

Reviewed in Mexico on June 12, 2023

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No discuto la calidad de la información, ni las ilustraciones. Estas guías son preciosas, bastante completas y realmente útiles para identificación en campo. Lo único molesto es que tanto el título como las descripciones hacen pensar que incluye a México. La información de las especies mexicanas es limitada para la zona norte y nula para las zonas debajo del trópico.

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Norval

Kaufman Field Guide to Butterflies of North America

Reviewed in Canada on July 29, 2012

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Excellent product, the best field guide for butterflies that I could find, and I tried many.
It is structured perfectly, with descriptive text and range maps adjacent to the colour plates, so no need to flip pages from plates to text as required by the National Audubon Society Field Guide (my other favourite). When a plate image looks similar to specimen sighted, a quick glance at the range map immediately allows for rejecting the way-out-of-range butterflies as a possible id.
Great detail on Male & Female butterfly identification where different colouration and patterns exist, as well as on variations within the species, geographical and otherwise.
Very comprehensive, with more species shown than any other guide I use.
The vinyl cover, can take a beating. Great print and paper quality. A real handy tool and a winner.
Thank you Jim & Kenn for a product that reflects your passion for bringing butterfly observation and identification out of the realm of entomology specialists.

4 people found this helpful

Michele VB

Handy guide

Reviewed in Canada on August 11, 2021

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I bought this fir my husband he really likes it and it organized by butterfly colour which makes it quick to find and identify differences

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