Mammals of North America: Second Edition (Princeton Field Guides)

I am thrilled to say that I have finally found what will be my "go-to" guide for mammal identification. This book does a fantastic job identifying all 442 mammal species of North America. Some of the more helpful features: a quick guide to point you to the right section of the book, fantastic artwork (not distracting photos) to reference, information on identifying the tracks of some of the larger species, and of course, most helpful to an amateur like me, there are plenty of pictures of scat!! And yet I am pleased to report that this beautiful reference does it all in a classic field guide size! For any interested amateur naturalist, hiker, hunter, etc - it will become the obvious choice to pack up and take along.

Nice educative book about the mammals of North America. Really for someone who loves nature of a great gift to your teenager.

Awesome! Has wonderful pictures and information! Great buy for a college student in Zoology!

This is a pretty good book on mammals. As others have mentioned there is wide variation in the quality of the artwork.

Great book to bring into the field. Fits nicely into a bag or large pocket. Great illustrations.

Very concise and informative.

Not many books out there that do what this book does, so the choices are limited. The upside is this book does cover all North American species (well, Canada and the US specifically. Mexico and Central America never seem to count as "North America" when it comes to guide books, for some reason). It's relatively easy to find the species you're looking for. The downside is the quality of many of the illustrations are quite disappointing, even bizarre. Many different artists were employed, with wildly different skill levels. I guess this is a common practice for guide books. I suppose one artist can't be expected to illustrate hundreds of animals in a way that makes field identification possible (although Sibley did for his bird guide books.. just sayin'). You can find examples of the artwork around Amazon and the interwebs. Do your homework. Having said all that, it's still a worthwhile addition to your collection, given the limited choices. I purchased the Kindle version this time around, but I've owned the paperback version in the past. It's easy to carry in your backpack and is made of durable semi-laminated material.I realize it's somewhat hypocritical of me to be so, well, critical of this book after having purchased it multiple times. Guilty as charged. Just please Princeton, update it with better illustrations and I'll change this rating to 5 stars.Note: both the Kindle and the paperback versions claim they're 816 pages. That may be true for the Kindle version, which has smaller (and thus more) pages, but the paperback version is about about 250 pages. Which is fortunate. No one wants to lug around an 816 page field guide, especially when there's no reason. There's about 400 species of mammals in North America - they don't each need two pages in an ID book

Grandson who is worlds ahead of most of us truly liked this book and had trouble putting it down to sleep.

Brilliant!

Exactement ce que je recherchais

Excelente guía, demasiada completa

Una guía básica perfecta.

This is an excellent book. Beautifully illustrated & plenty of mush appreciated detail of each animal. Absolutely wonderful for my work, Couldn`t be better. As expected from this series.