BirdsofPrey(PetersonFieldGuides:YoungNaturalists)

Thisnewseriesisdesignedwiththebeginnerinmind.FeaturingtheoriginalartofcelebratednaturalistRogerToryPeterson;incorporatingthePetersonIdentificationSystem,themosteffectivemethodforbirdidentification;andusingastraightforwarddesign.Thisseriesmakesfieldguidesaccessibleandappealingtochildren.RogerToryPetersonwastheinventorofthemodernfieldguide.Knownasthefatherofmodernbirdwatching,hehasbeencalled"thegreatestconservationistwhoeverwalkedthisplanet"(ornithologistChandlerS.Robbins).Morethananyoneelseinthetwentiethcentury,hisworkasanartist,photographer,writer,editor,educator,andconservationisthasincreasedenvironmentalawarenessandhelpedmillionstounderstandandenjoythenaturalworld.Forhiswork,Dr.Petersonreceivedeverymajorawardinthefieldofconservation;twenty-threehonorarydegreesfrommajoruniversities;andtheUnitedStates'highestcivilianaward,thePresidentialMedal.