The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds - Brossura

Crossley, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0691147787 ISBN 13: 9780691147789

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 2011

Riassunto

This stunningly illustrated book from acclaimed birder and photographer Richard Crossley revolutionizes field guide design by providing the first real-life approach to identification. Whether you are a beginner, expert, or anywhere in between, The Crossley ID Guide will vastly improve your ability to identify birds.

Unlike other guides, which provide isolated individual photographs or illustrations, this is the first book to feature large, lifelike scenes for each species. These scenes--640 in all--are composed from more than 10,000 of the author's images showing birds in a wide range of views--near and far, from different angles, in various plumages and behaviors, including flight, and in the habitat in which they live. These beautiful compositions show how a bird's appearance changes with distance, and give equal emphasis to characteristics experts use to identify birds: size, structure and shape, behavior, probability, and color. This is the first book to convey all of these features visually--in a single image--and to reinforce them with accurate, concise text. Each scene provides a wealth of detailed visual information that invites and rewards careful study, but the most important identification features can be grasped instantly by anyone.

By making identification easier, more accurate, and more fun than ever before, The Crossley ID Guide will completely redefine how its users look at birds. Essential for all birders, it also promises to make new birders of many people who have despaired of using traditional guides.

• Revolutionary. This book changes field guide design to make you a better birder


• A picture says a thousand words. The most comprehensive guide: 640 stunning scenes created from 10,000 of the author's photographs


• Reality birding. Lifelike in-focus scenes show birds in their habitats, from near and far, and in all plumages and behaviors


• Teaching and reference. The first book to accurately portray all the key identification characteristics: size, shape, behavior, probability, and color


• Practice makes perfect. An interactive learning experience to sharpen and test field identification skills


• Bird like the experts. The first book to simplify birding and help you understand how to bird like the best


• An interactive website--www.crossleybirds.com--includes expanded captions for the plates and species updates

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Recensione:

I really can't wait to get my eyes on this thing. -- Grant McCreary, Birder's Library

Richard Crossley has conceived and actually implemented a breakout idea for a general field guide to bird identification. . . . [W]hat (my old friend) Richard Crossley is doing with his idea of image, gestalt, wordlessness and recognition is mind-blowing. And it will revolutionize bird ID practice, discussions, and the scope of what each species is. Whether you have seen a bird and want to figure it out or you have been perusing his intuitive selection of what/how a bird looks and then you see it and know it too, I think you'll find Richard's guiding eye a game-changer for your birding endeavors. -- Hawks Aloft

Really cool and totally different. . . . Crossley gives us birds as we see them, in action. . . . We've been inundated with 'new' birding field guide books in recent years, no single one of them offering a compelling reason for purchase. This book will offer such a reason. -- Jim Williams, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Richard Crossley, in his forthcoming book, The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds, has used photography to aid pattern recognition. He has created scenes that depict the way birds actually appear in their natural habitats and by emphasizing the context, he hopes to make it easier for us to perceive the shape and size of birds. --Fannie Peczenik, Pittsburgh Birdwatching Examiner

L'autore:

Richard Crossley is an internationally acclaimed birder and photographer who has been birding since age 7 and who, by age 21, had hitchhiked more than 100,000 miles chasing birds across his native Britain and Europe. His love of the outdoors and his interest in teaching, design, and technology have shaped his unique vision for the future of birding and bird books. He is excited by the prospect of using new technologies to bring "reality birding" to a wide audience through many different media. He is a spokesperson for Nikon Sports Optics and coauthor of The Shorebird Guide, and lives with his wife and two daughters in Cape May, New Jersey.

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0691147787
• ISBN 13: 9780691147789
• Rilegatura: Rilegatura flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 529