Living in the Pacific Northwest, some of the first birds I learned to identify were woodpeckers. After all, in Oregon alone there are twelve different species to be found; over half the total number of species listed for all of North America. Indeed, the region is so strongly identified with woodpeckers that Paradise Birding calls one of its tours “Woodpecker Wonderland.”
In fact, the owner and lead guide of Paradise Birding, Stephen Shunk, is considered to be one of the northwest’s leading authorities on woodpeckers; which makes his authorship of the new Peterson Reference Guide to Woodpeckers of North America so very appropriate.
Covering the “natural history, ecology, and conservation of North America’s twenty-three woodpecker species,” this new Peterson Reference Guide is one of which woodpecker enthusiasts around the world should take notice.
