National Geographic Complete Birds of North America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

National Geographic Complete Birds of North America. National Geographic, dist. by Random. 2005. c.640p. ed. by Jonathan Alderfer. photogs. maps. index. ISBN 0-7922-4175-4. $35. NAT HIST

Birders certainly have their hands full with all the recently published field guides and companion volumes (Tom Wood's The Birds of North America; Bill Thompson's Identify Yourself). The latest to take wing is this massive desk reference, a companion to the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America. (An additional companion is the National Geographic Reference Atlas to the Birds of North America.) Edited by birding expert and field guide illustrator Alderfer, it …