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Title: Easy to Use Field Guide
Review: As someone just getting started with birding, I wanted a field guide that would be both easy to use and not overwhelming for a beginner. This one does the trick. I flipped through various other guides (Peterson's, NG, etc) at a bookstore, and I found this one much more intuitive and efficient. I find the illustrations to much more effective than those of other field guides I encounter people using.Pictures are helpful, but when I'm making an initial ID, the illustrations are what I go to first. They tend to be much easier to see the important field marks necessary, without too much wasted, excess information. When I see a bird I'm not sure about, I almost always grab this book, and then follow up with checking my iBird app for pictures and songs/calls for a final confirmation.Of course, different guides will be more effective for different individuals, so be sure to check out multiple ones at a bookstore before coming back to amazon to get the best deal.
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