Identify Massachusetts birds with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information. Make bird-watching in Massachusetts even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous bird guide, field identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in your area. This handy book features 127 species of Massachusetts birds organized by color for ease of use. Full-page photographs present the species as you'll see them in nature, and a "compare" feature helps you to decide between look-alikes. Inside you'll find: 127 species: Only Massachusetts birds! Simple color guide: See a yellow bird? Go to the yellow section Stan's Notes: Naturalist tidbits and facts Professional photos: Crisp, stunning images This second edition includes six new species, updated photographs and range maps, expanded information, and even more of Stan's expert insights. So grab Birds of Massachusetts Field Guide for your next birding adventure--to help ensure that you positively identify the birds that you see.

The paths of different birds look like double helixes, flowing strands of hair, and migrating serpents, and they beckon with calls that have definite meanings. These mysterious creatures inspire growing numbers of birders in their passionate pursuit of new species, and writer John R. Nelson is no exception. In Flight Calls, he takes readers on explorations to watch, hear, and know Massachusetts's hummingbirds, hawks, and herons along the coasts and in the woodlands, meadows, and marshes of Cape Ann, Cape Cod, the Great Marsh, Mount Auburn Cemetery, the Quabbin wilderness, Mount Wachusett, and elsewhere. With style, humor, and a sense of wonder, Nelson blends his field adventures with a history of the birding community; natural and cultural history; bird stories from authors such as Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and Mary Oliver; current scientific research; and observations about the fascinating habits of birds and their admirers. These essays are capped off with a plea for bird conservation, in Massachusetts and beyond.

Identify Massachusetts birds with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information. Make bird-watching in Massachusetts even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela’s famous bird guide, field identification is simple and informative. There’s no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don’t live in your area. This handy book features 132 species of Massachusetts birds organized by color for ease of use. Full-page photographs present the species as you’ll see them in nature, and a “compare” feature helps you to decide between look-alikes. Inside you’ll find: 132 species: Only Massachusetts birds! Simple color guide: See a yellow bird? Go to the yellow section Stan’s Notes: Naturalist tidbits and facts Professional photos: Crisp, stunning images This second edition includes 11 new species, updated photographs and range maps, expanded information, and even more of Stan’s expert insights. So grab Birds of Massachusetts Field Guide for your next birding adventure—to help ensure that you positively identify the birds that you see.