Birding New England A Field Guide to the Birds of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont

About this book

Birdwatching is for everyone. No other outdoor pursuit yields so much knowledge of nature's ways with so little effort – if one knows what to look for. Birding New England opens the world of birding to the novice and expert in this complete guide to getting the most out of birding in New England.

Birding New England includes a section on birding technology and features detailed advice on equipment, identification techniques, birding "by ear", field guides, optics, and other essentials to get the beginner into the field quickly to identify birds throughout New England. Especially valuable are descriptions of bird behaviours including feeding, flight, courting and breeding, nesting, and migration – informing the reader not only about what kind of bird is on the other end of the binoculars, but what it is up to as well. Most important, Birding New England provides information on where to view each bird species, helping readers plan a trip to New England around selected hot spots where the most desired birds are most often found.

Includes:
- GPS coordinates for each species of the top three to five locations where you're likely to see the bird and what time of year is best for this
- Full-colour photos
- Over 300 species

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Biography

Wife-and husband-team Randi Minetor and Nic Minetor have collaborated on twenty books about hiking, exploring historic cities, America's national parks, and birds and nature. Their popular books on outdoor activities in New York State include five books in FalconGuides' Best Easy Day Hikes series on Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, and the Hudson River Valley, as well as the popular Hiking Waterfalls in New York and Scenic Routes and Byways New York. They also worked together on four Quick Reference Guides to the native birds, trees, and wildflowers of New York State, New York City, and Long Island. Avid birders and seasoned road trippers, the Minetors also collaborated on the best-selling Backyard Birding: A Guide to Attracting and Identifying Birds for Lyons Press. When not in the car or on the trail, Randi is a freelance writer for corporations, executives, and nonprofit organizations, and Nic is the resident lighting designer for several theatre and opera companies in upstate New York, and for the PBS series Second Opinion. The Minetors live in Rochester, New York.