New York City Birds: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species in the Metropolitan Area (Nature Observation North America) Pamphlet – March 1, 2001

This pocket guide is folded and laminated. As anyone who lives in NYC knows, storage space in an apartment is limited, but this guide is very compact. Because it's laminated, it can go in a backpack and come with me without getting damaged.

Great pocket guide for birds in NYC! This guide is concise, yet packed with useful information on various bird species found in New York City. The illustrations are clear and informative for quick reference. Got it for my boyfriend who recently got into birding and loved it!

Amazing how much I've learnt, before I had this I pretty much knew only the pigeon and the sparrow. Now I've started noticing these startling and delightful creatures all over the city, especially central park!

I ordered this item to be able to reference the different types of birds throughout Manhattan and NYC. When I received this item I was quite surprised to find it was flat, just like a folded map. I guess I should have paid more attention to the description being a "fold out guide" and not a book, but it still really took me by surprise. Previously I had ordered a similar product on all the different NYC trees and I received an actual pocket book with many pages. I thought this would be something similar but it's really nothing more than a fold-out guide with pictures and extremely limited descriptions of the different types of birds you can find in the city.When completely unfolded it measures 22" long by 8.25" high. In all honesty, this is something that could have been downloaded off the internet (save for the fact that it is laminated) and $6 seems a bit pricey for the actual product. This guide is okay if you just want to try to visually match up a particular bird you have seen, but other than that it really doesn't offer too much information.