"Western Birds covers every breeding species west of the Rockies, with 1,314 color photographs and 168 drawings. The easy-to-remember field marks use the unique "How to Identify Birds method created by John Farrand, Jr. Picture-and-text accounts of over 460 species, with easy-to-remember field marks. Some 460 species represented in 1300 color photographs with occasional line drawings to clarify certain features. A handsome and inexpensive field guide. For all collections serving birders and ornithologists. Photographic flight comparisons. Keyed to "How to Identify Birds.

"A Chanticleer Press edition." Includes index.

Introduction -- New approach to birding -- Bird groups -- Guide to Birds -- Gulls -- Terns -- Jaegers and Skuas -- Tropicbirds -- Storm-petrels -- Shearwaters -- Albatrosses -- Boobies -- Auks -- Pelicans -- Cormorants -- Loons -- Grebes -- Ducks -- Swans -- Geese -- Rails -- Shorebirds -- Long-legged waders -- Pigeons and doves -- Chicken like birds -- Greater roadrunner -- Raptors -- Owls -- Nightjars -- Swifts and swallows -- Cuckoos -- Kingfishers and Elegant trogon -- Pipits and longspurs -- Larks -- Meadowlarks -- Orioles -- Blackbirds and European Starling -- Crows and ravens -- Magpies -- Clark's nutcracker -- Jays -- Crested Myna -- Phainopepla -- Waxwings -- Shrikes -- Buntings -- Hummingbirds -- Woodpeckers -- Nuthatches -- Brown creeper -- Wrens -- American Dipper -- Titmice -- Chickadees -- Verdin and bushtit -- Kinglets -- Warblers and vireos -- Wren tit -- Gnatcatchers -- Waterthrushes -- Flycatchers -- Thrashers -- Thrushes -- Northern mockingbird -- Gray catbird -- Bluebirds -- Grosbeaks, tanagers, and finches -- Sparrows, Towhees, and juncos -- Dickcissel -- Appendices -- Credits -- Index.