Photo courtesy Houghton Mifflin Harcourt publications.

Many consider the best bird book to be Peterson Field Guides’ Birds of Eastern and Central North America. I’ve got an older copy and it’s terrific.

Peterson created a field guide that Robert Bateman, in his foreword to the fifth edition, says was the doorway for millions of people into the wonderland of natural history.

According to the the Mifflin Harcourt Publication website, the Peterson Identification System has been used in the more than fifty books that make up the Peterson Field Guide series. Peterson’s magnum opus, now in its fifth edition, created the trail for countless field guides to follow. They are still following year by year, but his is the standard by which all other field guides are judged.

I’d have to agree. Your thoughts?

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