Birds of Oregon Field Guide, by Stan Tekiela

Birds of Oregon Field Guide

If you don’t want to be bothered with learning the usual categorizations used in birding field guides, the Birds of Oregon Field Guide by Stan Tekiela, c. 2001, Adventure Publications, Cambridge, Minnesota, ISBN 1885061315, is organized in a beginner-friendly ‘sorted by color’ scheme.

In other words, birds that are mostly black, mostly black and white, mostly blue, mostly brown, mostly gray, that have prominent green, prominent orange, prominent red, that are mostly white, or are mostly yellow are grouped together, with the color index along the outside page edge to make rapid look-up easier. Each write-up has color photos, a range map (year-round, migration, summer and winter areas showing up in different colors), descriptions, and notes. The notes have info not necessarily found in other guides, which would make this a good supplemental guide for more advanced birdwatchers. There is also information on nests, eggs, incubation times, the typical time needed before fledgling, migration habits, main food sources, and notes on similar species for comparison.

The book is six inches tall and is just over four and a quarter inches wide, small enough to fit in a larger pocket.