Encyclopedia of North American Birds

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The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds
Roger Tbry Peterson says:
'7 intend to keep my copy near my desk, for frequent use. It is a much-needed, broad-ranging accomplishment, and a most felicitous layman's reference."
NEARLY 6,000 ENTRIES AND CROSS-REFERENCES, INCLUDING:
625 major articles on all aspects of bird life and biology
Biographies of 847 birds in 78 families
Lives of 126 naturalists and explorers whose names are associated with North American birds
Definitions of 770 ornithological terms
A bibliography of more than 4,000 monographs, articles, and general books used in research for the encyclopedia
1,675 ILLUSTRATIONS, INCLUDING:
875 photographs of almost every bird that nests in North America
800 specially commissioned black-and-white detail drawings, diagrams, and maps

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The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds
Roger Tbry Peterson says:
'7 intend to keep my copy near my desk, for frequent use. It is a much-needed, broad-ranging accomplishment, and a most felicitous layman's reference."
NEARLY 6,000 ENTRIES AND CROSS-REFERENCES, INCLUDING:
625 major articles on all aspects of bird life and biology
Biographies of 847 birds in 78 families
Lives of 126 naturalists and explorers whose names are associated with North American birds
Definitions of 770 ornithological terms
A bibliography of more than 4,000 monographs, articles, and general books used in research for the encyclopedia
1,675 ILLUSTRATIONS, INCLUDING:
875 photographs of almost every bird that nests in North America
800 specially commissioned black-and-white detail drawings, diagrams, and maps

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The Audubon Society \ ENCYCLOPEDIAOF NORTH AMERICAN
BIRDS
by John K Terres
"A massive achievement ! consider John K. Terres's Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds to be one of the outstanding ornithological publications of this or any other time."
—From the Foreword by Dean Amadon, Lamont Curator Emeritus of Birds, American Museum of Natural History
Illustrated with 875 full-color photographs and 800 black-and-white drawings
A milestone in bird literature.
This monumental work is the first truly comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia to provide—for both layman and expert—rich, concise, authoritative, and brilliantly illustrated information on the birds of North America—all the birds that nest or have been sighted in the 48 contiguous United States, as well as Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda, and Baja CaMomia, as recorded by the American Ornithologists' Union. It is the first distillation in a single alphabetically arranged volume of the important scientific literature on North American birds. It is the result of a lifetime's study by the distinguished naturahst John K. Terres—the former editor oi Audubon magazine and recipient of the John Burroughs Medal—and it is an encyclopedia that can be not only consulted with confidence but read with delight.
The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds contains nearly one million words— nearly 6,000 alphabetical entries and cross-references specially arranged to make information easy to find. Its contents include the life histories of 847 birds, their appearances, habitats, ranges, songs, nests, behavior, and much more 625 major topics, from Courtship, Flight, and Migmtion to Songs and Singing, Territory, and Young and Their Care., .definitions of ornithological terms biographies of naturalists and explorers whose names are associated with North American birds and an extensive bibliography spanning 300 years of ornithological publications.
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Among the 1,675 extraordinarily beautiful and informative illustrations, there are more than 875 full-color photographs showing almost every bird that nests in North America and many of the visitors— photographs chosen for their excellence and for their revelation of the appearances, the habitats, and aspects of the behavior of each. There are also more than 800 black-and-white illustrations: composite drawings of family characteristics, full portraits of many species, silhouettes, anatomical detads, body systems, diagrams, flight patterns, migration maps, and portraits of extinct species and fossil birds.
Together, text and pictures answer almost every conceivable question about birds of North America.
In the preparation of The Audubon Society Encyclopedia cf North American Birds, John Terres has meticiJously consulted thousands of studies and scientific monographs, both recent and classic, and the general literature. In addition, he has had every major article in the encyclopedia critically reviewed by one or more leading specialists in their field. The research, writing, and system of organization have been carried out with the layman in mind, but the contents conform to rigorous ornithological standards. The result is an encyclopedia that is at once authoritative and totally accessible, a work that wiU inform, enrich, and delight everyone interested in birds.
John K. Terres edited Audubon magazine from 1948 through 1960, and subsequently was the editor of more than forty books, including the twelve-volume Atulubon Nature Encyclopedia. He is the author of six books, including Songbirds in Your Garden (1953), The Wonders I See (1960), Flashing Wings: The Drama of Bird Flight (1968), and From Laurel HiU to SUer's Bog: The Walking Adventures of a Naturalist (1969), for which he was awarded the 1971 John Burroughs Medal for distinguished nature writing. He has been a field biologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has written articles for numerous ornithological publica-tions, and, since 1960, has been a contributing editor of || Audubon magazine.
Jacket design by KD. Scudellari jacket photograph by Stephen J. Kmsemann-DRK Vissza