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What our customer's say!

"good book", this is a great book to help anyone learn about western birds and has great photos to help you find different bird species

"The gold standard of birding field guides", If you start with this guide, you probably will never need another. Color illustrations, rather than photos, accurately illustrate the ideal image of the various birds, making specific note of the pertinent details. Birds are grouped by type for easy identification, and indexed in the back by common and Latin names.

"not useful in the field", Not very useful in the field and in fact there are many species that aren't listed. The worst part of this book is the cross reference indexes.

"The best just got better!", This has always been the reliable and preferred reference for my wife and I. We have worn out two of the paperback version over many years of use. Now, with the revised arrangement of the book it is even easier to use and may cause it to wear out prematurely due to overuse. I might have to buy another so we can both refer to our own copy at the same time.

"Field Guide To Western Birds",
The book is excellent in most respect. But like all of these types it doesn't provide much help in actually identifying a bird. You can't go from "small-brown-stripes on side-purple head-green feet-S. Az area to Pages xxx & xxx for the types.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Backyard Birder", I am just an amateur, but this book has helped me identify many birds that frequent our area.

"good book", I had a peterson for over 25 years, dragged it everywhere, finally thought I should up grade my books to just western, since I live in oregon. still love the pictures and details, but the range maps have strangely gone to the back of the book! Horrible.
So i use the sibleys, then I use this when I am sure I am close to the correct range.
May be they will put the range maps back where they belong, am hanging onto my old copy!
keep on birding

"Wonderful Guide! But a few quibbles...", A wonderful guide, as expected! I live in the eastern US and use my Peterson guide to the birds of eastern North America almost daily -- it is, in my view, a perfect field guide to birds. I bought this guide for use when traveling on the west coast.

I have two relatively minor complaints with the Field Guide to Western Birds. First, unlike in the Field Guide to Eastern Birds, there are no thumbnail range maps next to the descriptions -- all the range maps are in the back of the book. Second, nowhere in the descriptions are we told how common the species is (also unlike in the Field Guide to Eastern Birds). This latter piece of information is helpful in the field -- in identifying birds, it's good to know how probable or improbable it is that you're seeing a particular species, both to help rule out unlikely birds and to gain appreciation of conservation issues.

Other than these pretty minor quibbles, I love this guide.

"Best Bird Bang for the Buck!", I've got the Stokes guides - Western Birds, Hawks and Buteos, and Nests of Western Birds. I have borrowed some other books that have photos instead of artwork. I FAR prefer the Peterson guide. With photos you have to worry about color-rendering, trueness, et al.
With Peterson's guide that's not a worry. I have yet to find a bird that did not very closely match the artwork, which could be another book in itself (coffee table-type book).
The only exceptions to this would be in the instance of birds like Red-tailed Hawks, who have a great variety of coloration. I'm buying another copy because I've lost my first. Lament, chagrin, because I've marked my observations in the old book (back of the book). The maps are another excellent feature which have helped me determine exactly what I'm looking at.
With this book and a pair of good binoculars, a little patience, the whole of the Pacific flyway will be opened up to you.

"Landmark Peterson.", This field guide to western birds is an important entry in the Peterson series. First of all, it is the most complete bird guide made by Peterson, much more complete than the Mexican Guide to Birds. The Eastern version is also complete, but contains less species entries. Birds of Britain and Europe left out some important families, including Hummingbirds. This excellent reference leaves out NOTHING!
Many bird families and genus are covered, making this the ultimate choice for advanced birders and experienced amateurs. This is also a review of the second edition of this guide, which is the most complete up to date press. The older print was fine, but less impressive than this clean new release. One of the most commonly seen bird families, the Wrens, contain more than ten listings in all. Also identifies quite a few species of waterfowl. Not bad. So, purchase any edition of this landmark guide to learn more
about birding and identification.