Illustrated by David Allen Sibley Hardcover: 587 pages For the
hundreds of thousands of birders for whom The Sibley Guide to
Birds--unanimously praised when it was published a year ago, and
a nationwide best-seller--is already basic equipment, this new
book will be required reading. Authoritative and comprehensive,
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior provides the
necessary information about the biology, life cycles, and
behavior (courtship, nest-building, migration, feeding, and
other activities) of the 80 bird families of North America. For
the new volume, Sibley has provided more than 796 full-color
paintings to illustrate the essays and family chapters written
by 44 ornithologists and expert birders. Together, the pictures,
text, and Sibley's lucid design and all-encompassing attention
to detail make The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior as
spectacular and as useful as its brilliant predecessor.
Introductory essays outline the principles of avian evolution,
life cycle, body structure, flight dy