![]() ![]() It’s high praise, earned by an unfailing attention to detail: Sibley painstakingly draws what he sees in the field-900 species for his most recent field guide-first in pencil and then in gouache paints. With The Sibley Field Guide to Birds, a New York Times bestseller, Sibley was immediately hailed as heir to the great birder and artist Roger Tory Peterson, placing him in a long line of artist-naturalist hybrids that leads straight back to John James Audubon himself. ![]() His first bird guide was released in 2000. As an adult, Sibley merged that encyclopedic knowledge with his skills as a self-taught artist to become one of America’s best-known field guide authors. Sibley was only seven when he began drawing birds, filing his illustrations away along with clips about the natural history of each species. It’s only natural he’s the son of a Yale ornithologist and has been birding since his childhood in Connecticut. He knows every North American bird: by its shade, by its tilt, by its habitat, by its male, female, and juvenile plumages. ![]()
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