North America
- Birds of North America, by Kenn Kaufman, Houghton Mifflin, 2000
- Innovative field guide employing digitally enhanced photographs
- Field Guide to the Birds of North America, National Geographic Society, 2002 (4th Edition)
- First field guide (in 1983) to cover all of North America; considered by many to have been the most authoritative guide until Sibley
- A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America, by Roger Tory Peterson and Virginia Marie Peterson (editor), Houghton Mifflin, revised 2002
A Field Guide to Western Birds, by Roger Tory Peterson and Virginia Marie Peterson (editor), Houghton Mifflin, revised 1990- The current incarnations of the seminal A Field Guide to the Birds, the first modern field guide published by Peterson in 1934
- The Sibley Guide to Birds, by David Allen Sibley, Alfred A.Knopf, 2000
- The current standard in identification guides for North America; exhaustively illustrated and oversized for a field guide (although there are field-sized Eastern and Western editions), limited text.
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