This is the best first book to get on Texas birds.

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	• The Birds of Texas John L. Tveten Shearer Publishing, 1993 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Bird Book for Beginners

This is a very fine book with photographs taken in the field. Another reviewer suggested this book "if you're only going to have one bird book." My wife and I prefer another book, but this one contains excellent information to supplement the other which is more of a field guide. This book also describes the evolution of the bird classification system, and how the names and designations of some birds have changed with DNA evidence. The author is clearly an expert in his field. Some sources list a hardcover version, but when we tried to get it, it was out of print.

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This is the best first book to get on Texas birds.

This the book to get if you want answers to the questions "what bird is that in my yard/in the park/at the beach?", and "what makes that bird special?". Even the best field guides give no answer to the second question, and their answers to the first question are often frustratingly complicated to the casual or beginning birdwatcher. Most people who call themselves birdwatchers (92% of them according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) can't even identify 40 species. You can use this to identify the easiest and most common 150-200 or so of Texas birds, and then go out and get a field guide to take you through the more difficult identifications.

However, you'll never find a field guide that will show you what makes each bird unique, and where each bird fits into the landscape. The descriptions are engaging, personal, and informative regarding behavior and location, and the photographs catch much about the lives of birds that can only be seen otherwise in the field. Tveten's pictures, including mockingbirds attacking raptors, songbirds calling from brush, and the activities of feeding and nesting birds, catch the essence of why people go out and look at them over, over, and over again.

This book will make you enjoy finding and looking for birds.

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Beautiful photographs!

The photography in this book is superlative and the main reason to purchase it is to admire the lush color photos of Texas's birds. However, I also enjoy the book because it allows me, as a novice birder, to learn to correctly identify various species. This book is much superior to an Audubon guide or a National Geographic Filed Guild to birds because each photo is huge and shows the birds to their best advantage. The photos of the various migrating birds aresimply outstanding!

I recommend this book for anyone who has an appreciation of birds in the Lone Star state and wants to vicariously see them through this medium. It will definitely prompt every armchair birder to take to the field and spy these wondrous creatures in their natural habitat. There are several birds I saw in this book which captured my fancy immediately. By seeing these photos, it prompted me to go out and beat the trails and shorelines to see each of these birds up close and "in person." A great book!

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Nice book!

This is a great book just for bird lovers in Texas. Wonderful pictures included.

Worth adding to your collection

I'm an amateur. I just like to watch the birds in the backyard and be able to share what they are with my family. I put seed out and wait to see what happens.

I already have a field book that I got here to use to identify the different types of birds, and it has not failed me. This book is different.

My first surprise was how thick the book was and how many great pictures there were. The box was so heavy when it arrived that I thought maybe it contained the wrong book. It didn't, there is that much information and pictures inside of it. I really enjoyed reading the text for the birds, it contained a lot of interesting information.

The reason 4 stars instead of 5 is due to the way the book is organized. It is arranged by type of bird - such as "birds of prey". While an Owl is certainly a bird of prey, I would rather find it under "O" or by the region they are found in. I'm sure this is personal preference on my part and not sure how others would feel about this, but when I look a bird up and it is a sparrow for instance, you have to know where they put it. (I can't remember where sparrow is located in the book right now, that might be a good example)

It is a good book and I'm glad I bought it.

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