National Geographic Pocket Guide to the Birds of North America

This book does not list a pileated woodpecker, so it makes me wonder, what other birds are missing? Being new to birding, I don't know how common the pileated woodpecker is, but if I've seen one in my backyard, I'm guessing that they're not too uncommon.

Very conveniently sized. Comes with high quality images, descriptions, and range maps of each bird. My only complaint is that it doesn't feature every bird, but there are so many I can't really blame the book.

Identify birds in our area

This little pocket guide is just perfect to carry with me. The pictures are beautiful and lots of information tucked into this little book!

I have purchased all the National Geographic that provide nature and this one also is great. Good teaching guide and pictures are gorgeous. Good take along if bird watching or to identify.

GREAT BOOK

I got this for my 5 yr old daughter and she loves it. It’s small enough to fit in a coat pocket or small bag. The photos are vivid and make it easy to find birds by visual description.

I found this pocket guide to be a great source of information on the selected birds, but I am baffled how they decided which birds to include. For example, it omits my favorite bird, the pileated woodpecker. For those who aren't familiar, the pileated woodpecker is a large, fairly common woodpecker found over large parts of the US and Canada. The cartoon character Woody Woodpecker was a pileated. Why they decided to leave out an iconic bird like the pileated woodpecker is baffling, and makes me wonder what other significant birds have been left out. I think they should have expanded the number of birds included, rather than leaving out an iconic bird such as the pileated. I see some other reviewers have the same issue with this guide.Nice guide for the selected birds, but omits common and iconic species.

This is an handy size for taking with you on field trips. It contains photos and line drawing of 160 species of birds to help you recognise them and little maps of America showing were they can be found .Each bird has a description of its plumage, Voice,habitat and food as well as other interesting information.

An excellent pocket publication, I have just identified a bird for a friend in New Mexico from a photo sent to the UK!.An excellent and concise book, with clear photographs and information on each species, BRILLIANT!

Really not worth buying ... the birds listed are very common and the number of birds in each category is minimal ... crows and seagulls got a lot of coverage but no mention of the bird which prompted me to buy a field guide in the first place ...the blue pinyon Jay ... possibly a child's book

I am disappointed with this book. I cannot find the birds I have been observing in western Canada. Also, some that are found up here, show they only live in more southern areas.

Informative book but I thought there would be more to the book