Providing birders the convenience of portability, Sibley's newest volume breaks down the information in The Sibley Guide to Birds into specific regions (The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America will be published the same month). The guide includes much of the basic information in the Guide to Birds, such as the parts of a bird and general color-coded maps, but focuses most of its attention on birds who make their home east of the Rocky Mountains, such as the Double-crested Cormorant and the Eastern Screech-Owl. The color-coded maps that accompany each bird show where the birds live throughout North America, so that birders in, say, Pennsylvania, will know to look for the Northern Mockingbird in California as well. And, of course, Sibley's beautiful full-colored paintings of birds jump out at every page-even in small format. (May 8) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Not just spin-offs from the famed Sibley Guide to Birds, these field guides are specifically designed to tote along on outings. The maps are new. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

David Sibley has become recognized as the current authority on field identification of North American birds. Having produced a number of award-winning guides for birders, he now offers a truly compact field book. Though practical in size, this book is rich in information, both with its text and abundance of accurate illustrations. Each of the 600 bird species of eastern North America is briefly summarized with notes on their abundance, habitats, feeding, behavior, and voice. Identification features receive frequent comments and are shown vividly in the illustrations (usually four or five per species, to include age and sex variations in plumage). Range maps incorporate the latest distributional information. In all, this excellent little guide will be useful for anyone enjoying the outdoor pursuit of birds. The companion book, The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America (CH, Dec'03), is a similar guide to birds in the rest of the US. ^BSumming Up: Essential. General readers; lower- and upper-division undergraduates. C. Leck emeritus, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick