Most Popular Books by National Audubon Society

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 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.

Identifies more than 200 species of reptiles and amphibians.

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.

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.

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.

Describes the butterflies of North America and includes scientific names, physical description, related species, life cycle and habitat.

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

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.

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.