The essential portable guide to North American birds, for quick and easy identifications in the field. The perfect book to take out on any birding expedition, whether heading deep into the woods or simply out into the backyard. Compact and easy-to-use, Pocket Birds of North America Eastern Region is a stunning field guide for any bird and birding enthusiast, regardless of age or level of experience. High-quality photographs bring the most commonly seen bird species to life on the page, capturing their beauty and making identification quick and effortless. Significant differences in plumage variation between juvenile and adult, male and female, and winter and summer are clearly pictured. Produced in collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History, Pocket Birds of North America Eastern Region is an essential field guide for identifying birds in North America.

Fifty years ago, a young ornithologist named Steve Kress fell in love with puffin. After learning that hunting had eradicated their colonies on small, rocky islands off the coast of Maine, he resolved to bring them back. So began a decades-long quest that involved collecting chicks in Canada, flying them to Maine, raising them in coffee-can nests, transporting them to their new island home, watching over them as they grew, and then waiting--for years--to see if they would come back. This is the story of how the Puffin Project reclaimed a piece of our rich biological heritage, and how it inspired other groups around the world to help other species re-root in their native lands.