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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tero" data-source="post: 1314944" data-attributes="member: 3367">This book just came out. If the NG is your favorite and you live in the East, you might get this. There are less pictures, so it is designed to make ID easier that way, less subspecies to sort through.The added text deals with ID, good idea, but some of it may be derived from the hard cover National Geographic Complete Birds of North America. The added text is in side bars running along the bottom of selcted pages, where the room was made by removing Western birds on the color plate.It does cover pretty well, even through Texas, so us in the middle of the country are still covered in the book.There is not much point to a West version, as it will have less birds, or overlap through the middle quite a bit. But if I were out west, I would use the slightly bigger N America book.It took me pretty much forever to get Sibley West, but I did eventually get it.  And I have never used it out west, I always take just Kaufmann.</blockquote>