Naturalist Stan Tekiela is an award-winning wildlife photographer and the author of many popular state-specific field guides. This guide includes 117 species of Illinois birds, a simple color guide that allows you to identify birds by color, a compare feature which allows you to decide between look-alikes, many tidbits and facts, and professional full-page images. This 2nd edition includes 6 new species, updated photographs and range maps, expanded...

A complete guide to every warbler, along with all the other songbirds you will find in North America. Species profiles include distribution map and key statistics, as well as information about behavior, plumage, and habitat.

This book identifies many reptiles, gives pictures of them, and describes their habitats.

"With this famous field guide by award-winning author and naturalist Stan Tekiela, you can make tree identification simple, informative, and productive. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of trees that don't grow in Illinois. Learn about 124 species found in the state (every native tree plus common non-natives), organized by leaf type and attachment. Just look at a tree's leaves, then go to the correct section to learn what it is. Fact-filled...

A guide to attracting, understanding, and protecting hummingbirds. Offers advice on feeders to planting and landscaping techniques. Includes an identification guide makes them easy to spot in the wild, with photographs, details on plumage variations, and range maps showing habitats and migration patterns.

Ideal for first-time foragers, this book features 70 edible weeds, flowers, mushrooms, and ornamental plants typically found in urban or suburban neighborhoods. You'll be amazed by how many of the plants you see each day are actually nutritious edibles! Full-color photographs make identification easy, and tips on where certain plants are likely to be found, how to avoid pollution and pesticides, and how to recognize the plants you should never harvest...

This is an abridged edition of the complete field guide that is more accessible and less forbidding than the parent volume.

A guide to plant life in open dryland habitats. Fascinating fact and folklore. Detailed, beautiful drawings. John Eastman is the author of Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (978-0-8117-1367-2), as well as numerous other books and articles about the natural world. Amelia Hansen has been a freelance illustrator since 1989, specializing in nature and natural history subjects. She lives near Kalamazoo, Michigan.

"Following in the footsteps of the bestselling first book THE FIELD GUIDE TO DUMB BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA, the ever-annoyed-by-birds author Matt Kracht brings us THE FIELD GUIDE TO DUMB BIRDS OF THE WHOLE STUPID WORLD. This time he ventures around the globe to include snarky names and descriptions of stupid birds from the whole dang world. Packaged with the same charmingly crappy drawings, maps, and handwriting of the original, this follow-up will...

Despite a happy childhood, successful entrepreneur Addison Fox has always yearned to find her birth mother. And with the unexpected death of her adoptive parents comes a renewed determination to fill in the missing pieces of her life-to find her "other" family. But she's too late . . . Burnt-out from past investigations, Randall Talbot is looking for some relief while helping out at his brother's detective agency. But when Addison Fox walks in, he...