While the original book was small enough to fit inside a jacket or pants pocket, the new version is a more substantial 6-by-9 inches, combining the Eastern and Western field guides, which were ...

SOUTH NEWFANE Last week I reviewed the new "Peterson Guide to the Birds of North America." Roger Tory Peterson published his first field guide in 1934, and in so doing he taught us how to bird. His ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), longtime publisher of the Peterson Field Guide series of nature guides, today announced a major, multi-product licensing arrangement with ...

SOUTH NEWFANE -- There are some people that make such an impact on their field, that their influence continues long after they are gone. They become almost franchises that keep paying dividends to ...

SAN ANSELMO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Appweavers, Inc. a developer of mobile nature applications, today introduced Peterson Birds of North America, an iPhone and iPad field guide to birds. The new app ...

There is a new edition of the Peterson field guide to birds of North America. It's not an update of the pocket-sized guide I bought in 1961. Those books are history, even if they remain on my shelves.

Roger Tory Peterson died 12 years ago but a brand new "Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America" has just been published. It is a superb book and Peterson himself would have been pleased. As ...

Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America, Nathan Pieplow, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, softcover, 593 pages, index, illustrated, $28 — This is part of the Peterson Field ...

About the book: Bird songs and calls are at least as important as visual field marks in identifying birds. Yet short of memorizing each bird’s repertoire, it’s difficult to sort through them all. Now, ...

A new approach to bird sounds -- How birds produce sounds -- Visualizing sound -- The naming of bird sounds -- The biology of bird sounds -- Recording bird sounds and making spectrograms -- Birds by ...