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field guides?

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  • Started 4 months ago by bostonsmama
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  1. bostonsmama

    Member

    I found one website earlier, accidentally closed the window and it seems to have vanished, lol.   Anyways, what are some of your favorite field guides? 

    Posted 4 months ago #

  2. bostonsmama

    Member

    ok, I'm going to reply to my own post...has anyone used the Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Comstock?  Is it pretty laid back?

    Posted 4 months ago #

  3. Bookworm

    Member

    Many of us use this book.  It is not really a field guide.  It is more a "guide" or companion for nature study.  FAR too big to carry around in your backpack, and no real attempt to be at all comprehensive.  You can learn a lot about different categories of life around you, but for field guides, go for the real thing.  We like Audubon guides, and area-specific guides best here.

     

    Posted 4 months ago #

  4. Karen

    SCM Team

    Also, National Wildlife Federation field guides and Princeton field guides are both very nice.

    Posted 4 months ago #

  5. Rachel

    Member

    Yes, Comstock's book is definitely a study guide, to assist you in studying. There's a wonderful blog out there. Just google Handbook of nature study blog and it will come up.

    I like the (1st) First Peterson Guides and (2nd) the Golden guides. Collect as many as possible. They go o sale frequently at Borders and I pick one up everytime I can; they get used over and over.

    Rachel

    Posted 4 months ago #

  6. CoastalCarol

    Member

    I would suggest visiting a local nature center and/or state park and asking for their recomendations for guides specific to your area.  I was recently able to get a very nice native plant guide free from my state's environmental agency.

    If you live near or often visit the Atlantic coast, then Seashells in my Pocket by Judith Hansen in an excellent resource to have.  It covers insects, shorebirds, and plants as well as shell identiication.

    Posted 4 months ago #

  7. bostonsmama

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    Thanks, ladies!  I realized right after I posted that the Handbook of Nature Study was SO not a field guide, lol.  It said it was hundreds of pages long, lol.  I found the blog - very cool! 

    I found shiningdawnbooks.com  These appear to be downloadable guides, is it too difficult to take a small binder with us? 

    Thanks for all of the suggestions!  Off to google a few of them.  I think I'll call our conservation dept as well, and see if I can get some from them, that never occured to me!  (free is my friend!) 

    Posted 4 months ago #

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