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Specialist publishers such as Croom Helm, along with organisations like the Audubon Society, the RSPB, the Field Studies Council, National Geographic, HarperCollins, and many others all produce quality field guides.



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A field guide to the birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific

A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific is a 1987 book by Harold Douglas Pratt, Jr., Phillip L. Bruner and Delwyn G. Berrett (with illustrations by Pratt).

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials

It contains his visualizations of different extraterrestrial life forms from various works of science fiction, with information on their planetary location or range, biology, and behaviors, in the style of a real field guide for animals, such as Roger Tory Peterson's guide to birds of North America.

Big year

The wide publication in 1934 of the first modern field guide by Roger Tory Peterson truly revolutionized birding.

Black-throated Sparrow

David Allen Sibley, The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America.

California Gull

National Geographic Society (2002): Field Guide to the Birds of North America.

Cape May Bird Observatory

Sibley wrote his classic field guide, The Sibley Guide to Birds, while he was living and birding in Cape May Point.

Capparis arborea

Hiddins, L., Bush Tucker Field Guide, Explore Australia Publishing 2003, ISBN 1-74117-028-1 page 95

Capparis spinosa subsp. nummularia

Hiddins, L., Bush Tucker Field Guide, Explore Australia Publishing 2003, ISBN 1-74117-028-1 page 48

Great Sooty Satyr

Lionel G. Higgins and Norman D. Riley (1988) Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe Collins, London

Guy Mountfort

Born in London, Mountfort was the author of the 1954 A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, with illustrations by Roger Tory Peterson and distribution maps by Philip Hollom.

Homegrown Music Festival

The first Homegrown Field Guide featuring cover art by Duluth artist Chris Monroe.

Jeffrey St. Clair

This was followed by A Field Guide to Environmental Bad Guys (with James Ridgeway), Five Days that Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond, Al Gore: a User's Manual, and Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: the Politics of Natureand Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth.

John Edgar Courtney

He helped put together the first Field Guide to Australian Birdsong, produced by the Bird Observers Club of Australia.

Joseph Stanton

His other books include Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art, A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Suburban O‘ahu: Poems, Cardinal Points: Poems on St. Louis Cardinals Baseball, What the Kite Thinks: A Linked Poem, Stan Musial: A Biography, and A Hawai‘i Anthology.

Michał Zalewski

In 2005, Zalewski authored Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks, a computer security book published by No Starch Press and subsequently translated to a number of languages.

Mickley

Thomas Bewick, wood engraver and author of A History of British Birds, the first practical field guide, was born in the village at Cherryburn House, now a National Trust site.

New World Publications

In November 2010, after five years of extensive field photography in the Pacific, New World Publications published Reef Creature Identification - Tropical Pacific, the most comprehensive field guide ever published about the marine invertebrate community of the vast region stretching from Thailand to Tahiti.

PageDefrag

Winternals: Defragmentation, Recovery, and Administration Field Guide by Dave Kleiman, Laura Hunter, Mahesh Satyanarayana, Kimon Andreou, Nancy G Altholz, Lawrence Abrams, Darren Windham, Tony Bradley and Brian (2006) - Syngress (ISBN 1-597490-792)

Silence on the Wire

Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks is a book by Michał Zalewski on some network-silent methods of information gathering as they relate to computer security.

Snout house

Hayden, Dolores (2004) A field guide to sprawl; with aerial photographs by Jim Wark, New York : W.W. Norton, (ISBN 0393731251)

Solution focused brief therapy

O’Hanlon, Bill, and S. Beadle; A Field Guide to PossibilityLand: possibility therapy methods. BT Press 1996.

The Macmillan Field Guides to Bird Identification

Volume 1, The Macmillan Field Guide to Bird Identification, illustrated by Alan Harris and Laurel Tucker, with text by Keith Vinicombe, was originally published in 1989, covered British birds.