Featuring the life-like and detailed illustrations of celebrated and award-winning naturalist roger tory peterson backyard birds is a great way to introduce youngsters to birding.

Easily accessible and non-threatening this volume can inspire a lifelong love of birds.

Birds are categorized by their color and the young reader will be introduced to the peterson identification system which is the standard of species identification in the field.

Readers will be able to identify up to 20 common backyard species found throughout the u.

S.

And canada.

Notes on descriptions habitats diet and calls are included.