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Sibley Birds East & Sibley Birds West: A Review

10,000 Birds

It was my second field guide, and I quickly gave it that worn look I imagined all “real” birder’s field guides had by dropping it into the creek at Allaire State Park in New Jersey (by accident!). I purchased my first Sibley— The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America —in 2003. This means that loons are no longer first!