Most Popular Books by National Audubon Society

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.

A photographic guide to tracks made by animals plus facts about each kind.

A revised edition of a how-to book on nature photography featuring many illustrations, advice, tips and analysis appropriate for both novice and experienced photographers.

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.

Through photographs and text, this book promises to awaken public interest in the ways and wonders of wild mammals and ultimately in their survival.

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.

1,025 photographs, 583 in full color, illustrate this all-inclusive survey ofthe entire animal world.

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 and authoritative guide to the wildflowers of North America, updated for the first time in decades to reflect the impact of climate change and the advancements in DNA studies that have radically altered the classification process. This handsome volume, from the world''s most trusted name in nature field guides, is the result of a collaboration among leading scientists, scholars, taxonomic and field experts, photo editors, and designers. An indispensable resource, it covers 853 species of wildflowers, with nearly 5,200 full-color photographs. For ease of use, the book includes a glossary, an index, and a ribbon marker, and is organized according to the latest Angiosperm Phylogeny Group IV classification system. Each species features up to five vibrant photographs, to aid with identification, along with notes on range, season, flowers, stems, fruit, conservation status, and more. Introductory essays give in-depth explanations of each part of a wildflower, and discuss nomenclature, invasive species, and the impacts of our changing climate. Whether preparing for a scenic hike or getting to know the flowers in the backyard, readers will come to rely on this work of remarkable breadth, depth, and elegance. It is a must-have reference for the library of any nature lover, and is poised to become the number-one guide in the field.

Provides an overview of wildflowers and where they grow, with specific information about individual species.

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

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.

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

Detailed full-color spreads help beginning naturalists observe and understand over 150 types of rocks and minerals.

Interest in our nation''s weather patterns is rising-as is witnessed in the popularity of the Weather Channel-and this guide is the most popular reference to every type of weather system, cloud formation, and atmospheric phenomenon common to North America. The 378 dramatic photographs capture cloud types, precipitation, storms, twisters, and optical phenomena such as the Northern Lights. Essays with accompanying maps and illustrations discuss the earth''s atmosphere, weather systems, cloud formation, and development of tornadoes and many other weather events.