National Geographic Pocket Guide to Insects of North America

Author: Arthur V. Evans
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426216475
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
An easy-to-use field guide for nature lovers, backyard explorers, and budding entomologists. Evans helps you discover popular insect species as well as spiders and relation creatures, as well as key facts and information about life cycles and behavior of every species.

Familiar Reptiles and Amphibians

Author: National Audubon Society
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Shows and describes frogs, toads, turtles, lizards, skinks, salamanders, newts, alligators, and snakes.

National Geographic Pocket Guide to the Birds of North America

Author: Laura Erickson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426210442
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Presents information about 160 North American bird species, including facts about physical features, voice, habitat, food, and a map indicating the regions in which each species can be found.

National Geographic Pocket Guide to the Mammals of North America

Author: Catherine Herbert Howell
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426216483
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
Geared to meet the same standards of excellence as our previous pocket guides, this book is tailored to the needs of an eager beginner. Affordable and authoritative, this entry-level field guide will appeal to all animal-spotting newcomers, combining spot-on descriptive information, definitive photography, animal track silhouettes, and key facts in a handy, pleasant-to-hold, easy-to-reference volume. More robust than any other beginning field guides on the market, this book includes selected photography and newly commissioned art and graphics to help identify each mammal species. Tips throughout show how to observe, track, and identify mammals in nature. Beautifully designed and illustrated, with logical organization and bulleted information, these pocket guides are useful in the field or as an in-home reference. Tips throughout show how to observe, track, and identify mammals in nature.

The Frogs and Toads of North America

Author: Lang Elliott
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618663996
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
Covering all 101 species of frogs in the United States and Canada, this book contains natural history information, identification tips, range and habitat information, summaries of behavior, and descriptions of calls. A 70-minute audio compact disc includes the calls of nearly every species.

National Geographic Pocket Guide to the Weather of North America

Author: Jack Williams
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426217862
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
"This easy-to-use field guide provides the resources to understand the meteorological events that affect us every day. With illustrations and graphics for every topic, this is the go-to book for answers about weather reports and conditions on our increasingly turbulent planet"--

Amphibians of North America

Author: Hobart Muir Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780307636621
Category : Amphibians
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
A guide to amphibian species of the North American continent, excluding Mexico, including range maps, identification keys and detailed color illustrations.

National Geographic Pocket Guide to the Night Sky of North America

Author: Catherine H. Howell
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426217854
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
A field guide to help backyard explorers, hikers, and nature lovers discover and identify North America's diverse community of reptiles and amphibians.

National Geographic Pocket Guide to Wildflowers of North America

Author: Catherine H. Howell
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 142621281X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
With this basic beginner's field guide to North American wildflowers, all who enjoy nature and the outdoors can identify common wildflowers, from backyard weeds to dainty forest blossoms. In a logical, user-friendly, highly visual format, this new title offers key facts about 160 of the most common wildflowers and weeds, coast to coast, including Canada and Alaska. To help with identification, each of the 160 entries has both a color photograph showing the plant in context and a color illustration showing the blossom close-up. This book is the perfect starting point for anyone, young or old, interested in learning how to identify wildflowers.

National Geographic Illustrated Guide to Wildlife

Author: National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426213727
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
From one of the most trusted names in field guides comes a new and lavishly illustrated guide to identifying North America's most common birds, mammals, insects, reptiles, and amphibians, plus fish and other aquatic creatures. Broad in scope and clearly organized, National Geographic Illustrated Guide to Wildlife is just like having five field guides in one. Each of the five realms of wildlife gets a chapter, and each chapter identifies 160 of the most common and most interesting animals around, providing essential information and a bullet list of key points on each species. Photographs and original artwork represent 900 species total, making this the ultimate field guide to the creatures of the continental United States and Canada, from your own backyard into the deepest wilderness.