Rod and Staff Books & More

Sponsored by the National Audubon Society, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute

"In this century, no one has done more to promote an interest in living creatures than Roger Tory Peterson, the inventor of the modern field guide.... His greatest contribution to the preservation of biological diversity has been in getting tens of millions of people outdoors with Peterson Field Guides in their pockets." —Paul Ehrlich, The Birder's Handbook

• 165 full-color paintings show more than 1,000 birds from 700 species—every species found west of the Great Plains
• 441 range maps—the most accurate, precise, and legible in any field guide
• Easy-to-use facing-page format
• Features the unique Peterson Identification System, which has never been surpassed as a tool for field identification and is available only in Peterson Guides