This compact guide features 105 common or notable species of birds found in South Carolina. Each 2-page account includes common and scientific names, a full-color illustration of the bird with key identifiers, natural history information and interesting facts. There is also information on size and voice, a photograph of the egg along with nesting information, size and incubation period, illustrations of similar species, range maps and a map of best birding sites, a glossary and a birder's checklist of South Carolina species.

GREGORY KENNEDY has been an active naturalist since he was very young. He is the author of many books on natural history, and has also produced film and television shows on environmental issues and indigenous concerns in Southeast Asia, New Guinea, South and Central America, the High Arctic and elsewhere.

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Professor-emeritus Ken Brock is an accomplished birding enthusiast. He is author of Birds of the Indiana Dunes, a former regional editor of the national ornithological journal North American Birds, and functions as a birding consultant to government. Brock is the former interim Dean of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Northwest and a one-time U.S. Navy lieutenant.

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