THE STOKES GUIDE TO FINCHES OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA                                         By Lillian Stokes and Matthew A. Younger 

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Study all it’s worthwhile to learn about figuring out and attracting finches with this complete, gloriously colourful new STOKES information.
(Pub. date 9/17/24)

With The Stokes Information to Finches of the US and Canada, you may achieve professional data on these stunning birds and produce them into your individual yard. This totally illustrated information tells you all it’s worthwhile to learn about attracting, figuring out, observing, and defending finches.
This e-book consists of:

– Full life histories together with breeding habits, meals, habitat, vary, migration, and conservation. 

– Detailed identification info with stunning photographs of males, females, immatures, breeding and winter plumages, subspecies, songs, and calls. 

– A particular part on endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper finches, plus different uncommon and vagrant finches 

– The right way to entice and backyard for finches with the suitable feeders, seed, and plantings 

– The most full and up-to-date vary maps, together with maps of core prevalence and irruption ranges for all crimson crossbill name varieties, which have by no means earlier than been printed in a e-book 

– Scientific research on finch migrations and conservation 

– Greater than 345 gorgeous full-color images and over 50 vary maps overlaying 43 species 

– Spectrograms of crossbills calls and revolutionary charts of their meals preferences 

– Partaking inventive essays, distinctive to any information, introducing every essential breeding 

 ADVANCE REVIEWS!

“This finch information, the newest within the remarkably lengthy collection of Stokes books for birders, breaks new floor in how seamlessly it melds discipline information expectations with leading edge ornithology, all targeted on a charismatic group of birds.  Brilliantly conceived, magnificently illustrated, and full of data that any birder would devour, it could not shock me if this distinctive information earns the rank of high chicken e-book of 2024. My opinion.”                                 

John Kricher, creator of Peterson Reference Information to Fowl Conduct and The New Neotropical Companion. 

 
” WOW! This gorgeously illustrated, rigorously researched, fantastically written discipline information is ground-breaking! That is THE most complete and engrossing e-book I’ve ever learn on these fascinating, flashy, essential birds. It actually knocks my sox off! No nature lover must be with out it.” 

Sy Montgomery, creator of Birdology and The Hummingbirds’ Reward

“The Stokes Information to Finches of the US and Canada resets the bar as a template for future avian monographs and it compiles for the ages a tour de power of what’s identified about finches and Hawaiian honeycreepers.  The authors’ linguistic mastery, inventive formatting of complete textual content, partaking use of high-quality coloration graphics and pictures, and thoughtfully chosen anecdotal imagery make this e-book each a pleasure to learn and a pleasant compendium of details about these good-looking, usually song-worthy, and often itinerant passerines.  Lillian Stokes and Matt Younger have made a spectacular contribution to North American ornithology.” 

Wayne R. Petersen, Massachusetts Audubon Director Essential Fowl Space (IBA) Program

 “From yard feeders to distant wilderness peaks, finches are among the many most fascinating birds in each setting, the extra we find out about them, the extra exceptional they turn into. On this new quantity — detailed, correct, and fantastically illustrated, like each Stokes information — Lillian Stokes, a gifted communicator in regards to the pure world, joins forces with finch professional Matthew Younger to offer a vital reference for everybody inquisitive about birds.” 

Kenn Kaufman, creator of The Birds That Audubon Missed

 
“Greater than only a Information to Finches, this cutting-edge e-book offers steerage for higher residing via birds. This e-book is so magical, I spent a complete morning savoring the learn, experiencing and reliving the sheer pleasure of the finches I’ve encountered in my years of noticing them. To me, this e-book embodies a lot hope and pleasure, however together with these feelings, a bridge between our private well-being and chicken identification- one thing so essential in actually attending to know the birds. Additionally putting is that this e-book is for everybody – from novice to professional, bundled in an unimaginable structure of sections and a gallery of pictures which can be dynamic and interesting. Properly accomplished!!”                                                                                                             

Holly Merker, co-author of Ornitherapy for Your Thoughts Physique and Soul, and founding father of the Aware Birding Community

“Birds of a feather? Maybe extra of a seed-seeking beak form or propensity to indicate up right here, there, after which disappear, marks the birds on this splendidly distinctive information. As many people spend our winters ready on night grosbeaks to lastly present up, Lillian Stokes and Matt Younger illuminate the acquainted yard residents, uncommon endemics and irruptive guests that chicken adorers will come to know higher. Though among the rarer species passing via may solely give fast glimpses, the artfully novel Fast Takes within the Stokes Information to Finches will make the watching well worth the ready!”                                                                  

J Drew Lanham is an ornithologist-birder, award-winning writer-conservationist, and creator of Sparrow Envy – A Discipline Information to Birds and Lesser Beasts. 

 “Every thing a finch information ought to have and a lot extra! Nice photographs and helpful ID ideas, in-depth info, nuanced vary maps, ideas for feeding them safely, and essential details about conservation. I notably love that they included the Hawaiian honeycreepers to highlight their plight. And Lillian Stokes’s and Matt Younger’s accounts of non-public encounters with finches enlighten and encourage. A enjoyable, in-depth dive into a beautiful household.” 

Laura Erickson, creator and producer of the “For the Birds” podcast and weblog

 Who knew that the finches, that most-familiar group of yard feeder birds, hid such thriller and thrilling discovery amongst their noisy, colourful flocks? Lillian Stokes and Matt Younger are the right educated guides and their splendidly informative e-book lays naked most of the secrets and techniques that finches have lengthy stored. 

Scott Weidensaul, creator of A World on the Wing.