Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 752 pages
- Published by: Oregon State University Press September 30, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0870711822
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0870711824
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Book Dimensions:
10.9 x 8.3 x 1.9 inches
- Weighs: 4.5 pounds
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Birds of Oregon: A General Reference (Hardcover)
If you live in the Pacific Northwest and have more than a passing interest in birds, you'll eventually invest in this book. It is not a field guide. It has very few illustrations. It is a reference. As such it is filled will information on distribution, phenology, behavior and much more regarding the 480 plus birds that have, so far, been recorded in Oregon. There is no other modern source like it, at least for Oregon. The last reference to come close was written in 1940 (Gabrielson and Jewett's Birds of Oregon). Is it perfect? No. Many of the distribution maps generated from the Oregon Breeding Bird Atlas are suspect. A few of the accounts are, arguably, incomplete. Many authors contributed to the final work, this is no a criticism in and of itself given the number of accounts that had to be written, but this has led to some inconsistencies in completeness. For example, Ring-billed Gull shows up on the Breeding Bird Atlas for the lower Columbia River, but this is not mentioned in the written account. Nit picking aside, this is a impressive work. The bibliography alone makes it worth the price.
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