Published simultaneously in Canada by Heritage House Publishing under title: Birds of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest : a complete guide. (Verso of title page)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-452) and index.

Your complete expert field guide to Pacific Northwest birds! Discover more than four hundred bird species in Birds of the Pacific Northwest-the all-in-one regional field guide for birding enthusiasts. Join bird experts Tom Aversa, Richard Cannings, and Hal Opperman as they illuminate key identification traits, vocalizations, seasonal status and distribution, habitat preferences, and feeding and other behaviors for the species that call the Pacific Northwest home. Full-page individual accounts are accompanied by range maps and over nine hundred photographs by some of the region's top bird photographers. Stretching from two hundred miles offshore in the Pacific Ocean across coastal lowlands, forested mountain ranges, and interior deserts to the Rocky Mountain crest, the Pacific Northwest embraces the southern half of British Columbia; all of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho; and parts of western Montana and Wyoming. Birds of the Pacific Northwest is your birding handbook for a vast, distinctive region rich in refuges and other protected wildlands, including numerous iconic national parks. This landscape is like no other, and no other book is like this book. Book jacket.