Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New EnglandWhether you’re walking in the woods or along the beach, camping, hiking, canoeing, or just enjoying your own backyard, this book will help identify all your nature discoveries. With authoritative and broad coverage, using nontechnical and lively language and more than 2,000 color photographs, this guide is an essential reference for nature lovers living in or visiting New England. KENN KAUFMAN, one of the world's foremost naturalists, is the originator of the Kaufman Field Guide series, which includes books on birds, butterflies, mammals, and insects. KIMBERLY KAUFMAN is the executive director of the Black Swamp Bird Observatory in Ohio and a contributing editor to Birds & Blooms magazine. |
Contents
Land and Sky | 8 |
Habitats | 38 |
Wildflowers | 46 |
Trees and Large Shrubs | 96 |
Small Shrubs Vines Groundcover | 134 |
Primitive Plants and Others | 146 |
Mammals | 162 |
Birds | 186 |
Butterflies and Moths | 298 |
Other Insects | 330 |
Other Invertebrates | 358 |
Beach and Tidepool Life | 368 |
Conservation | 388 |
Back Matter | 400 |
Back Cover | 417 |
Spine | 418 |
Common terms and phrases
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