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Butterflies of North America (Kaufman Field Guides) |  | Authors: Kenn Kaufman, Jim P. Brock
Brand: Peterson Books
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 244008
Media: Vinyl Bound
Pages: 392
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.8 x 1
ISBN: 0618768262
Dewey Decimal Number: 595.789097
EAN: 9780618768264
ASIN: 0618768262
Publication Date: September 1, 2006
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Product Description
Features: Durable, flexible cover and color-coordinated index. Excellent identification resource for experienced and novice lepidopterists. Kaufman provides butterfly watchers with more than 2,200 digitally edited photographs and an easy-to-use species index-a format that defines the Kaufman Focus Guides. The photographs have been gleaned from scores of skilled nature photographers. Co-author Brock brings more than 30 years of butterfly watching around the world to the informative, non-technical writing in the book. Readable capsule narratives are enhanced by the startling clear color images, which make identification of species much easier. The guide offers images of larval (caterpillar) stage butterflies along with details on feeding preferences of butterflies in their different stages of development. Migratory information on these delicate and beautiful creatures. Ranges geographically from the lower 48 states through Canada and Alaska, with maps provided for all butterflies depicted. This book will appeal to bird watchers, hikers, gardeners and outdoor enthusiasts.
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 GREAT FIELD GUIDE November 13, 2009
K. J. GARRETT (Rogers, AR)
I'VE BEEN AN AVID BIRDWATCHER FOR YEARS AND BECAME FAMILIAR WITH KENN KAUFMAN THROUGH FIELD GUIDES AND MAGAZINES. I THINK THIS IS A GREAT FIELD GUIDE FOR SOMEONE SUCH AS MYSELF WHO IS JUST BEGINNING TO LEARN BUTTERFLIES OR PROBABLY FOR NON-BEGINNERS AS WELL. THE BEST THING ABOUT IT IS THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOW WHAT FAMILY OF BUTTERFLY THE ONE IS IN THAT YOU ARE TRYING TO IDENTIFY. IT IS COLOR CODED, WHICH HELPS ME TREMENDOUSLY. THAT HAS BEEN MY SOURCE OF FRUSTRATION IN TRYING TO IDENTIFY BUTTERFLES ON-LINE AND IN LOOKING AT OTHER FIELD GUIDES. IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT FAMILY IT'S IN, IN MOST CASES, IT'S HARD TO FIND IN OTHER GUIDES. THIS IS TRUE FOR WILDFLOWERS, TREES, BIRDS, ETC. I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS FIELS GUIDE TO ANYONE.
Comprehinsive, nice pictures and logically designed August 13, 2009
M. Hughes (Winnebago, IL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In my humble opinion, most field guides are not logically designed. If you have a bird or butterfly in front of you, you may not have half an hour to thumb through the book looking for a likely suspect. This book has a few little aids that make searching faster and easier. The pictures are pretty good and show the tops and bottoms of the wings which is very important. Also important, it is complete. Most field guides leave a lot of butterflies out.
I have four other field guides that are pretty much worthless. This is the best I've found so far.
If you need a book on Lep's June 30, 2009
Justin Michels (Illinois, USA)
I've found the style of this book to be very helpful. The illustrations are clear, and the species' habits are concise and interesting. I've used this book a few times in the short period of owning it, and I highly recommend this to anyone who walks the woodlands looking for Lep's.
Kaufman's Guide Outstanding May 30, 2009
C. Fred Zeillemaker (Ola, ID USA)
Kaufman's field guides (butterflies, insects, birds, etc.) are perfect, or nearly perfect, due in large part to the unique digitally enhanced photographs used. The range maps are also first class. I use other butterfly and insect guides to supplement information provided by the Kaufman guides.
 Something of a disappointment April 24, 2009
Ashtar Command (Stockholm, Sweden)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
Americans are spoiled by beautiful and exciting butterflies. Europeans, on the other hand, are spoiled by good field guides to butterflies! This Kaufman guide is nothing compared with Tom Tolman's "Butterflies of Europe" or Björn Dal's "Fjärilar i naturen" (a Swedish work). My main objection to it are the illustrations. I'm not sure what on earth they are supposed to be. "Digitally edited photos"? They are worse than painted illustrations, while not looking like photos either.
Frankly, it's amazing that you can screw up a book about *butterflies*, making it aesthetically unpleasing. I'm sure the range maps and species presentations are good for beginners who want to identify butterflies, and with some imagination you might make something out of the digital photos too, but I long for the day when Tom Tolman or Björn Dal makes a trip to North America...
You have longwings, swallowtails and milkweeds, and yet you blew it! REALLY.
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