The Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hotspots - 2nd Edition by Pete Janzen & Bob Gress (Paperback)

About the Book

"This definitive guide is an essential resource for Kansas birders of all kinds!Kansas is a bird-watcher's paradise, boasting exceptional habitat diversity and a key location at the hub of the hemisphere's migration corridors. An astounding 486 avian species have been documented in the state. In this greatly expanded edition of their award-winning guide, renowned experts Pete Janzen and Bob Gress have gathered a wealth of information on 321 species and 100 birding hotspots in Kansas.Janzen and Gress offer beautiful photographs, useful identification information, and field notes on habitat, seasonal occurrence, and more. The guides to birding hotspots throughout the state highlight the unique species and seasonal features of the most diverse and exciting places Kansas has to offer and will help you plan your next adventure. Additionally, Janzen and Gress have included essays on topics like birding basics and the geography and ecosystems of Kansas, along with a calendar of bird activity in Kansas and a complete species checklist of Kansas birds.This new edition is a must-have guide for every backyard enthusiast and day-tripping birder"--

Book Synopsis

This definitive guide is an essential resource for Kansas birders of all kinds!

Kansas is a bird-watcher's paradise, boasting exceptional habitat diversity and a key location at the hub of the hemisphere's migration corridors. An astounding 486 avian species have been documented in the state. In this greatly expanded edition of their award-winning guide, renowned experts Pete Janzen and Bob Gress have gathered a wealth of information on 321 species and 100 birding hotspots in Kansas.

Janzen and Gress offer beautiful photographs, useful identification information, and field notes on habitat, seasonal occurrence, and more. The guides to birding hotspots throughout the state highlight the unique species and seasonal features of the most diverse and exciting places Kansas has to offer and will help you plan your next adventure. Additionally, Janzen and Gress have included essays on topics like birding basics and the geography and ecosystems of Kansas, along with a calendar of bird activity in Kansas and a complete species checklist of Kansas birds.

This new edition is a must-have guide for every backyard enthusiast and day-tripping birder.

Review Quotes

"Fortune has favored the Kansas bird enthusiast with this tour de force guide to the state's birds and birding locations. Expertly prepared and magnificently useful, it is a resource that birders in other states should hope and strive to emulate."--Dan L. Reinking, author of the Oklahoma Winter Bird Atlas

"As the authors point out, this book is a 'less intimidating introduction to the birds of Kansas.' It is an accurate description that predicts its applicability to that great middle ground of birders and birdwatchers, the serious beginners and relaxed veterans. Despite its quite comprehensive nature, this book is nevertheless an easy-to-use reference written in a relaxed style that I strongly recommend to anyone interested in Kansas birds."--Ross Silcock, coauthor of Birds of Nebraska: Their Distribution and Temporal Occurrence

"In this authoritative yet engaging resource for bird lovers, renowned field ornithologists Pete Janzen and Bob Gress tell you how to identify the nearly 500 bird species recorded in Kansas, and just as important, where to find them. Centrally located on the North American continent, Kansas is home to a splendid diversity of birds from east and west, north and south. Bird migration in Kansas is epic, and the state is a magnet for rarities. Janzen and Gress are especially to be commended for their thorough coverage of the many recent changes to the dynamic, adaptable, and rapidly changing birdlife of the state."--Ted Floyd, editor of Birding magazine

"The word is out: Kansas, landlocked Kansas, is a terrific birding state. This beautiful and easy-to-use guide does double duty, introducing curious backyard observers to the bird life around them, and providing traveling birders directions and details to more than 100 outstanding sites all around this surprisingly, wonderfully birdy state."--Rick Wright, senior leader of Victor Emanuel Nature Tours, and author of Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America