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    <body><![CDATA[Invaluable to any birder...open it countless times during the year especially helpful identifying hawks and warblers. One of my Top 10!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you could only have one bird guide make it this one. It is smaller than the Sibley guide, it covers all of North America (unlike the smaller Sibley guides and Peterson's), it has tabs for quick access (like a dictionary), and best of all the maps, illustrations and descriptions are all on the sam...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5675258">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great reference for bird watchers]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Can't live without this one--it goes everywhere with me. I've since updated and bought the 4th and 5th editions, but all of my birding notes are still in this very worn copy. An excellent field guide, in my opinion. I supplement it with <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15832.The_Sibley_Guide_to_Birds" title="The Sibley Guide to Birds by David Allen Sibley">The Sibley Guide to Birds</a>, which stays at home while I drag the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6155407">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very detailed book of birds. I don't know enough about the field to know how it compares to it's competitors, but the book does everything I want it to do. It has really come in handy with identifying all of those birds eating out of my birdfeeder.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[my field guide of choice. fairly life-like renderings of the species with gendered, age-specific and seasonal plumages included. most importantly, small enough to carry without being burdensome.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the bible of bird watching.  I was turned on to bird watching when I married Kevin and I love it.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent descriptions but I prefer more photographs. I have trouble with only illustrations. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The photos and illustrations in this book are really inspiring for my own drawing.]]></body>
    
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