Best Selling Books by National Audubon Society

National Audubon Society North American birdfeeder handbook.

The majestic world of wild birds is vividly brought to life through 150 dramatic full-color photographs and authoritative text from the Audubon Society. Birds are grouped by habits and habitats as well as by scientific classification, incorporating information on appearance, ranges, songs, nests, and behavior.

Explore the plants, animals and habitats of Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah with the help of this informative, portable guide. 1,200 color illustrations. 200 maps, diagrams & drawings.

A comprehensive guide to identifying more than 600 species of wildflowers from the eastern region of North America.

An advanced field handbook to the birds of North America: text by 61 key experts, with their personal secrets for identifying particular species with hundreds of color photographs and paintings. The first guide based on the new classification of the American Ornithologist''s Union.

A complete guide to landscape photography, from choosing the best equipment and learning field strategies for professional-quality pictures, to preparing digital images for publication.

A portable, comprehensive field guide--brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, and designed to fit into your back pocket--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. This National Audubon Society Pocket Guide gives full coverage to 80 of the most common and distinctive mammals in North America, from the Arctic to the Mexican border, and from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. An additional 30 important mammals are included under the heading "Similar Species," raising to 110 the total number of mammals described in this guide.

Identifies and illustrates 360 species in the area ranging from the eastern seaboard to the Rocky Mountains.

Describes forest communities east of the Rockies with illustrations of plants and animals that interact together.

A portable, comprehensive field guide--brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, and designed to fit into your back pocket--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. The National Audubon Society Pocket Guide: Insects and Spiders is the essential pocket-size guide to 80 of the most abundant and colorful insects and spiders in North America. Small enough to fit in your back pocket and featuring stunning full-color photographs and concise descriptions, this handy guide is the ideal companion for any outdoor excusion, and perfect for beginners and experts alike.

Step into the intriguing and exciting world of wild animals -- dramatically brought to life through stunning photographs and insightful text from the National Audubon Society. Includes more than 173 full-color photos.

A photographic guide to common birds of the Eastern regions of the U.S. and Canada plus facts about each bird.

An extensively illustrated guide to 39 species of hawks.

A portable, comprehensive field guide—brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, and designed to fit into your back pocket—from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. This streamlined volume contains an easy-to-use field guide identifying 80 familiar North American mushrooms, an outline of identifying mushrooms characteristics, the basics of when and where to look for mushrooms and certain distinguishing qualities of poisonous mushrooms. This pocket guide is teeming with information on this class of fungi; full-color photographs and descriptive line drawings, engaging mushroom lore on each individual mushroom species, specific identifying mushroom features, notes and warnings on each species'' edibility and their poisonous lookalike counter-parts, geographical information and a guide to various mushroom family traits. Whether you are mushroom-hunting to photograph and paint them, studying them scientifically, gathering then for culinary purposes or just for the rewarding experience in itself, the National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Mushrooms is a handy reference guide to have by your side.

Identifies more than 200 species of reptiles and amphibians.

A guide to medicinal plants showing how to identifying 500 plants. Information on where the plants are found and detailed descriptions of all their known uses.

Covers eighty of the most common and frequently encountered tree species.

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Identifies the tropical marine fish living off the coast of North America.

Provides information about mollusks and their shells and how to identify them, along with detailed descriptions and photographs of fifty common North American shells.

National Audubon Society Pocket Guides Animal Tracks -- Birds (East and West) -- Birds of Prey -- Birds of Sea and Shore -- Butterflies -- Cacti -- Dinosaurs -- Flowers (East and West) -- Fossils -- Insects and Spiders -- Mammals -- Marine Mammals -- Mushrooms -- Reptiles and Amphibians -- Rocks and Minerals -- Seashells -- Seashore Creatures -- Songbirds (East and West) -- Trees (East and West) -- Waterfowl Also available National Audubon Society Field Guides National Audubon Society Nature Guides National Audubon Society Master Guides to Birding

Text and 156 photographs explore the lives and activities of insects, featuring the most interesting and important insects, etc. Organized by major groups, each with a common ancestry or lifestyle.

An advanced field handbook to the birds of North America: text by 61 key experts, with their personal secrets for identifying particular species with hundreds of color photographs and paintings. The first guide based on the new classification of the American Ornithologist''s Union.

The most comprehensive field guide available to the Pacific Northwest--a portable, essential companion for visitors and residents alike--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. This compact volume contains: An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of the region''s wildflowers, trees, mushrooms, mosses, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, butterflies, mammals, and much more; A complete overview of the Pacific Northwest''s natural history, covering geology, wildlife habitats, ecology, fossils, rocks and minerals, clouds and weather patterns and night sky; An extensive sampling of the area''s best parks, preserves, beaches, forests, islands, and wildlife sanctuaries, with detailed descriptions and visitor information for 50 sites and notes on dozens of others. The guide is packed with visual information -- the 1,500 full-color images include more than 1,300 photographs, 14 maps, and 16 night-sky charts, as well as 150 drawings explaining everything from geological processes to the basic features of different plants and animals. For everyone who lives or spends time in Washington or Oregon, there can be no finer guide to the area''s natural surroundings than the National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Pacific Northwest.

The first comprehensive field guide to freshwater fishes - covers all 790 species known in the United States and Canada. More than 700 illustrations, most in color, show identifying marks. Also includes 377 distribution maps and additional drawings of key details.

Shows and describes frogs, toads, turtles, lizards, skinks, salamanders, newts, alligators, and snakes.