A Guide To Feeding Winter Birds In British Columbia

A full-colour, all-in-one regional field guide to every bird species found in BC and the Pacific Northwest, featuring 900 photographs. Discover more than four hundred bird species in Birds of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest—the quintessential guide for serious birders or those who are ready to take their bird-watching to the next level. Join renowned bird experts Richard Cannings, Tom Aversa, and Hal Opperman as they illuminate key identification traits, vocalizations, seasonal status, habitat preferences, and feeding behaviours. Compact full-page accounts include maps and nine hundred photographs by the region’s top bird photographers. With a wide territorial range that covers much of BC through to southern Oregon and the Rocky Mountain crest west beyond the Pacific coast, this is the most complete and comprehensive portable guide of its kind on the market. This region is a well-defined biogeographic unit composed of three large ecoregions—the coastal rainforest, North America’s northernmost deserts and the northern/mid-Rockies to the east. Birds of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest is your birding handbook for a vast region rich in refuges, protected sanctuaries, public parks, and raw wilderness—and its depth transcends any guidebook that has preceded it.

Annotation This beautiful little volume will delight and inspire bird lovers who live in or are visiting southwestern BC. An amazing amount of useful information is packed into this handy, portable guide, which will appeal both to experienced birders wanting to learn more about the behaviour and habitat of local species and to beginners who are still learning to identify them. Along with rich, full-colour photos of each species, you'll find a map of the region covered, information on birding equipment, habitat descriptions, and tips on when to go birding and how to attract birds to your yard. Pages are colour-coded according to related species, and the guide is organised by families so that related species are shown together.

Discover more than four hundred bird species in Birds of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest-the quintessential guide for serious birders or those who are ready to take their bird-watching to the next level. Renowned bird experts Richard Cannings, Tom Aversa, and Hal Opperman present a complete account for each of the hundreds of species that call this region home, including maps and gorgeous photographs by some of the top bird photographers in BC and the Pacific Northwest. You will learn to identify a vast array of bird species, from the Western Tanager to the Northern Pygmy Owl to the American Kestrel, and learn about their status, distribution, and habitat associations. With a wide territorial range that extends from British Columbia south to Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and parts of western Montana and Wyoming, this is the most complete and comprehensive guide of its kind on the market.

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