THE STOKES GUIDE TO FINCHES OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA By Lillian Stokes and Matthew A. Younger
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Be taught all it’s worthwhile to learn about figuring out and attracting finches with this complete, gloriously colourful new STOKES information. (Pub. date 9/17/24)
With The Stokes Information to Finches of the USA and Canada, you may acquire professional information on these lovely birds and produce them into your personal yard. This totally illustrated information tells you all it’s worthwhile to learn about attracting, figuring out, observing, and defending finches. This e-book contains:
– Full life histories together with breeding conduct, meals, habitat, vary, migration, and conservation.
– Detailed identification info with lovely images of males, females, immatures, breeding and winter plumages, subspecies, songs, and calls.
– A particular part on endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper finches, plus different uncommon and vagrant finches
– The best way to appeal to and backyard for finches with the fitting feeders, seed, and plantings
– The most full and up-to-date vary maps, together with maps of core incidence and irruption ranges for all purple crossbill name sorts, which have by no means earlier than been revealed in a e-book
– Scientific research on finch migrations and conservation
– Greater than 345 beautiful full-color pictures and over 50 vary maps overlaying 43 species
– Spectrograms of crossbills calls and revolutionary charts of their meals preferences
– Partaking inventive essays, distinctive to any information, introducing every predominant breeding
ADVANCE REVIEWS!
“This finch information, the most recent within the remarkably lengthy collection of Stokes books for birders, breaks new floor in how seamlessly it melds subject information expectations with leading edge ornithology, all centered on a charismatic group of birds. Brilliantly conceived, magnificently illustrated, and full of knowledge that any birder would devour, it could not shock me if this distinctive information earns the rank of high chicken e-book of 2024. My opinion.”
John Kricher, creator of Peterson Reference Information to Hen Conduct and The New Neotropical Companion.
” WOW! This gorgeously illustrated, rigorously researched, superbly written subject information is ground-breaking! That is THE most complete and engrossing e-book I’ve ever learn on these fascinating, flashy, necessary birds. It actually knocks my sox off! No nature lover ought to be with out it.”
Sy Montgomery, creator of Birdology and The Hummingbirds’ Present
“The Stokes Information to Finches of the USA and Canada resets the bar as a template for future avian monographs and it compiles for the ages a tour de drive of what’s identified about finches and Hawaiian honeycreepers. The authors’ linguistic mastery, inventive formatting of complete textual content, participating use of high-quality shade graphics and pictures, and thoughtfully chosen anecdotal imagery make this e-book each a pleasure to learn and a pleasant compendium of details about these good-looking, usually song-worthy, and ceaselessly itinerant passerines. Lillian Stokes and Matt Younger have made a spectacular contribution to North American ornithology.”
Wayne R. Petersen, Massachusetts Audubon Director Essential Hen Space (IBA) Program
“From yard feeders to distant wilderness peaks, finches are among the many most fascinating birds in each setting, the extra we study them, the extra outstanding they turn into. On this new quantity — detailed, correct, and superbly illustrated, like each Stokes information — Lillian Stokes, a gifted communicator concerning the pure world, joins forces with finch professional Matthew Younger to offer an important reference for everybody interested in birds.”
Kenn Kaufman, creator of The Birds That Audubon Missed
“Greater than only a Information to Finches, this cutting-edge e-book gives steering for higher residing via birds. This e-book is so magical, I spent a whole morning savoring the learn, experiencing and reliving the sheer pleasure of the finches I’ve encountered in my years of noticing them. To me, this e-book embodies a lot hope and pleasure, however together with these feelings, a bridge between our private well-being and chicken identification- one thing so necessary in actually attending to know the birds. Additionally hanging is that this e-book is for everybody – from novice to professional, bundled in an unbelievable structure of sections and a gallery of photos which are dynamic and fascinating. Nicely executed!!”
Holly Merker, co-author of Ornitherapy for Your Thoughts Physique and Soul, and founding father of the Conscious Birding Community
“Birds of a feather? Maybe extra of a seed-seeking beak form or propensity to point out up right here, there, after which disappear, marks the birds on this splendidly distinctive information. As many people spend our winters ready on night grosbeaks to lastly present up, Lillian Stokes and Matt Younger illuminate the acquainted yard residents, uncommon endemics and irruptive guests that chicken adorers will come to know higher. Though a few of the rarer species passing via would possibly solely give fast glimpses, the artfully novel Fast Takes within the Stokes Information to Finches will make the watching well worth the ready!”
J Drew Lanham is an ornithologist-birder, award-winning writer-conservationist, and creator of Sparrow Envy – A Area Information to Birds and Lesser Beasts.
“All the things a finch information ought to have and a lot extra! Nice images and helpful ID ideas, in-depth info, nuanced vary maps, ideas for feeding them safely, and necessary details about conservation. I notably love that they included the Hawaiian honeycreepers to highlight their plight. And Lillian Stokes’s and Matt Younger’s accounts of private encounters with finches enlighten and encourage. A enjoyable, in-depth dive into an exquisite household.”
Laura Erickson, creator and producer of the “For the Birds” podcast and weblog
Who knew that the finches, that most-familiar group of yard feeder birds, hid such thriller and thrilling discovery amongst their noisy, colourful flocks? Lillian Stokes and Matt Younger are the right educated guides and their splendidly informative e-book lays naked lots of the secrets and techniques that finches have lengthy saved.
Scott Weidensaul, creator of A World on the Wing.
