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The Field Book Collection · Volume one
A field guide and birding journal to the birds of North America
Twenty-three species live in the continental United States and almost nowhere else. This volume gathers all of them — and leaves room for you to record the ones you find.
Paperback, hardcover and Kindle ebook · pocket-sized, 5.5 × 8.5 in · interior printed in colour
The Field Book Collection
This guide-journal belongs to The Field Book Collection, and every volume in it is built the same way: two complementary halves. Neither stands alone. One records what is known, the other records what you saw.
First half
Comprehensive species accounts, organised by viewing accessibility: field notes, habitat details, sighting-difficulty ratings, detailed illustrations, and maps that accompany your observations.
Second half
Turns the guide into your personal journal through three tools: an expedition log for trip details, a species checklist, and a chronological life-list that builds a timeline of your observations.
Together, these sections create both a scientific record and a personal memoir of your journey.
Inside the guide
Every account carries one to six stars, weighing how often the bird is recorded, how reachable its habitat is, and how threatened it is.
Sequenced geographically and by ease of viewing.
Inside the journal
Hold a page to see it larger — hover with a mouse, or press and hold on a phone.
One page per outing. Date, site, the hours you arrived and left, the weather, who was with you, and what the habitat was doing — the context that makes an entry worth reading years later.
Tick the endemics as you find them. Twenty-three rows, ruled for pencil: the simplest page in the book, and the one most readers open first.
Your record, in the order it happened. Every first sighting, dated, carrying a trip code that links it back to the expedition log — so a name on this page can always be traced to the morning you earned it.
Free resources
Scanned the QR code inside the book? This is where it lands. One email address and both files are on their way to your inbox.
Species-level maps: exact best observation sites, protected areas, nearby roads, airports and populated areas.
High-resolution species artwork with paper, sizing, quality and cutting instructions.
Lands on /downloadables, the page the printed QR points to through editheriabooks.com/go/us-birds.
Our mission
Editheria Nature Books publishes specialised short-run works for their scientific and educational value. This work aims to contribute to knowledge of birds and their ecosystems, and to inspire conservation action.
Authors
“I really do love birds. For nearly a decade my life outdoors has revolved around elusive animals, and most of what that taught me was about waiting. When I began reading traditional field guides I kept finding the same gap: they tell you what an animal is, and almost nothing about your chances of seeing it. What I wanted was information I could actually use, and information that was current — and that is what this book sets out to be. So each of these twenty-three accounts answers four questions instead of one: what it is, where it lives, when to go, and how hard it will be. The second half is blank on purpose. A guide holds what is known; the journal holds what you saw, and after two seasons that is the half you will open first.”
“I have drawn birds for guides to South and North America, and the endemics of the United States were the smallest brief I have been given and the most exacting — twenty-three birds, each of which had to carry a page on its own. Every plate here is watercolour on paper, painted at the size you see rather than reduced from something larger. What I wanted was not a diagnostic diagram but the bird as you would meet it: the tilt of the head, the light across the breast, the posture that tells you what it is before the field marks do.”Amazon author page →
Press and interviews → roman@editheriabooks.com
Painted by hand
Illustrations in this book were painted by hand, in the tradition field illustrators have kept alive for two centuries.
Watch the washes go down and a bird arrives slowly — the edge of a wing, the tilt of a head, the light on a breast. Hours of patience in every plate, and the affection of someone who has spent a life looking at these birds.
Miles McMullan — naturalist and illustrator · See his Amazon author page →
The Field Book Collection · Volume one
A field guide and birding journal to the birds of North America
Twenty-three species live in the continental United States and almost nowhere else. This volume gathers all of them — and leaves room for you to record the ones you find.
Paperback, hardcover and Kindle ebook · pocket-sized, 5.5 × 8.5 in · interior printed in colour
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