Field Guides By
Series

On Our Website: Video Podcasts!

Richly illustrated with paintings, photographs, and sound recordings of featured birds, these video podcasts are an entertaining and educational supplement to the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America. You may view and download three hours of podcasts from our web site. Choose from the cateogries below:

Family Overviews Species Profiles Biography Tutorials

A Field Guide to Atlantic Coast Fishes: North America


Cover more than 1,000 species of fish. Includes nearly 1,100 illustrations (b/w and color).


A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes: North America North of Mexico

Brooks M. Burr
Lawrence M. Page
John P. Sherrod (Illustrated by)
Eugene C. Beckham (Illustrated by)
Craig Wayne Ronto (Illustrated by)

Covers 790 species in the United States and Canada. Includes more than 700 illustrations (b/w and color).


A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes: North America


Covers more than 600 species. Includes more than 500 illustrations.

Introducing the founder of our field guide series:
Roger Tory Peterson

Roger Tory Peterson, the artist, the photographer, the writer, the guide who turned the skies into a cathedral for the worship of living things ... [is] one of America's most talented men.

- PETER JENNINGS, ABC World News Tonight, recognizing Roger Tory Peterson as Person of the Week.

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