The Sibley Guide to Trees
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (830 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 037541519X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 426 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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A work of art The artwork in this book puts me in mind of David More's work in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Trees which covers trees grown in England and Europe. I remember wishing there was a book of that quality for North America. In August of this year (2009) I got my wish.Sibley's guide is more portable than the aforementioned work. It's larger than the typical field guide but will fit into a backpack or can be left in the car.What strikes me most about Sibley's guide is the illustrations of leaves and fr. "Finally a real field guide for trees" according to Allagash. I was very excited when I found Sibley's field guide for trees. I was secretly wishing that Sibley would produce a field guide for trees with the same level of detail as his guide to birds so I had been holding out for a long time to buy a field guide for trees. Sibley's field guide, unlike others, actually shows full color illustrations of each part (young/old bark, buds, flowers and most importantly, like he did with the bird guide, a full review of the different forms of a leaf of every tree). I. Good first impression, but As someone who spends much of my free time poking about in the natural environment, has been an avid birder for over 35 years, and has a graduate degree in botany (ecology and systematics), I have used most of the major field guides and many of the more technical floras for North America. My hope was that this guide would be equivalent in importance to Sibley's bird guides.The first things I do with a new plant guide is test it against a flora I'm familiar with and see what sort of identification k
Since 1980 he has traveled throughout the North American continent studying the natural world, both on his own and as a leader of bird-watching tours. This intensive travel and study culminated in the publication of his comprehensive guide to bird identification, The Sibley Guide to Birds, fol
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It’s impossible for a naturalist to study just one thing, since they are all connected. Here in Massachusetts, there are only small patches of old-growth forest that have never been cut. Trees can’t see, they communicate through pollen and some chemical signals, so one tree doesn’t “care” what another’s leaves or bark look like. And I think an interest in trees follows naturally from an interest in birds--looking at birds means you are looking at a lot of trees,