Read about our natural world

A list of books and guides to study and take along when you go outdoors

COMPILED BY LAURA MANN

March 14, 2004

Local Books

A Nature Journal: A Naturalist's Year on Long Island, by Dennis Puleston; Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.; October 1992, Hardcover, 128 pp.

Exploring the Other Island: A Seasonal Guide to Nature on Long Island, by John L. Turner, Waterline Books, August 1994; Paperback, 204 pp.

Seasonal Guide to the Natural Year: A Month by Month Guide to Natural Events, New England & New York, by Scott Weidensaul; Fulcrum Pub, October 1993; Paperback, 328 pp.

A Field Guide to Long Island's Woodlands, by Linda Springer-Rushia and Pamela G. Stewart; Museum of Long Island Natural Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook, August 1996; Paperback, 83 pp.

A Field Guide to Long Island's Seashore, by Glenn A. Richard, Linda Springer-Rushia and Pamela G. Stewart, Museum of Long Island Natural Sciences, Stony Brook University

Short Nature Walks on Long Island, by Rodney Albright and Priscilla Albright; Globe Pequot Press, June 2001; Paperback, 208 pp.

Peterson Field Guides

Eastern Forests: A Field Guide to Birds, Mammals, Trees, Flowers, and more, by John Kricher and Gordon Morrison; Houghton Mifflin Co., 492 pp.

Eastern Trees, by George A. Petrides and Janet Wehr; Houghton Mifflin Co., 428 pp

Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-central North America, by Margaret McKenny and Roger Tory; Houghton Mifflin Co., April 1998; Paperback, 420pp.

Atlantic Coast Fishes: North America, by Carleton Ray, C. Richard Robins, Roger Tory Peterson (ed.), John Douglass (illus.); Houghton Mifflin Co., March 1999; Paperback, 354 pp.

Reptiles and Amphibians: Eastern and Central North America, by Roger Conant, Joseph T. Collins, and Tom R. Johnson and Isabelle Hunt Conant (illustrators); Houghton Mifflin Co., February 1998; Paperback, 634 pp.

National Audubon Society Field Guides

North American Birds: Eastern Region, by John L. Bull and John Farrand; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. August 1994; Paperback, 800 pp.

Mammals Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., April 1996; Hardcover, 937 pp.

North American Insects and Spiders, by Lorus Johnson Milne, Margery Milne, Susan Rayfield (illus.); Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., November 1980; Hardcover, 992 pp.

The Sibley Guide to Birds, by David Allen Sibley, National Audubon Society Staff (Editor), David Sibley (illus,); Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., October 2000; Paperback, 544 pp.

Butterflies Through Binoculars: The East, by Jeffrey Glassberg; Oxford University Press, March 1998; Paperback, 242 pp.