Description: Featuring 140 common species, this beautifully illustrated resource includes an ecoregion map showing over 20 bird-finding hotspots and learning sites. Laminated for durability, this lightweight, 12-panel folding pocket guide is a terrific primer for educators, learners, naturalists, and birders who wish to sharpen their identification skills and peer more closely into the fascinating lives of Japan's birds. Made in the USA.
Brief description: Zoologist Jim Kavanagh has made a career out of introducing novices to plants, animals, the sciences and world cultures. In addition to creating over 500 simplified nature guides, he has also authored guides to languages, cities and outdoor skills. An avid traveler and backpacker, Kavanagh's path has taken him around the world to many remote destinations including the upper Amazon, Africa, Australia, and the Arctic Circle (and this is just the As). He is also the author of a series of state-specific guides to common species and natural attractions and a children's book on evolution.
Review Quotes: [December 4, 2017] Bird enthusiasts will think a pocket guide for their hobby is the most thoughtful stocking stuffer they've ever received. Waterford Press' has three new birding guides on indigenous birds of Japan, China, and Thailand, as well as guides for North America.-- "Readers Digest"