Saskatchewan is known as the Land of Living Skies, and this might as well be a reference to its bird life. Spectacular congregations of ducks, geese, and cranes migrate through the famed Prairie Pothole Region where myriad lakes, ponds, and sloughs—the “potholes”—offer abundant feeding opportunities. In the southern grasslands, Western Meadowlarks and provincial bird Sharp-tailed Grouse are common breeders; Harris’s Sparrows and various species of wood-warblers nest in the boreal forests to the north. Birds offer an entry point into nature study and are often the means by which people connect more meaningfully with the land. To get better acquainted with the most representative species, it helps to have a portable reference like Saskatchewan Birds, which features beautiful illustrations of 140 common and familiar birds as well as an ecoregion map showing over 20 bird-finding hotspots and learning sites. Laminated for durability, this lightweight, 12-panel folding pocket guide is the ideal resource for educators, learners, naturalists, and birders who wish to sharpen their bird identification skills and peer more closely into birds’ fascinating lives. Made in the USA.

About The Author

James Kavanagh

Series by the Author

About The Illustrator

Raymond Leung

Product Details

Publisher: Waterford Press (September 10, 2019)
Length: 12 pages
ISBN13: 9781620053676

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Raves and Reviews

You can take your Peterson, Sibley and Kaufman. Keep Dunne on the shelf. National Geographic, too. If the book weighs more than the binocular, beginners just won’t bite. So for our friends just starting to bird – and we mean those birding within 50 feet of their back window – we’re giving them a started guide they can handle. We love the “don’t overwhelm me” feel of these new pocket books from Waterford Press. These folding guides provide folds of laminated full-color. - Birding Business Magazine

Has this ever happened to you? You’re out in a field or in the forest or on a stream and a bird flashes by. You get a good look at it, note its most prominent features, but you’re not sure what it is. You could look it up in a bird book, but who carries a bird book a field when the whole idea is to travel as light as possible? Now Waterford Press has come up with something that solves the problem: a pocket-sized bird guide that is four inches wide, 8 ¼” inches long and flat as yesterday’s beer. - Chicago Press & Sun-Bulletin

“The “Pocket Naturalist Guides” are colorful, pocket-sized, laminated, folded guides (3½" x 8¼" folded, open to 22" x 8¼"), designed to be taken into the wilderness. They cover states and wilderness regions, some featuring all wildlife and some much more focused (e.g., butterflies, ducks). Yes, they'll require creative shelving (we put ours in an old map box next to the other field guides), and their life span may be shorter than your average field guide, but their quality, low price, and variety are worth the inconvenience.”

– Library Journal

“You can take your Peterson, Sibley and Kaufman. Keep Dunne on the shelf. National Geographic, too. If the book weighs more than the binocular, beginners just won’t bite. So for our friends just starting to bird – and we mean those birding within 50 feet of their back window – we’re giving them a started guide they can handle. We love the “don’t overwhelm me” feel of these new pocket books from Waterford Press. These folding guides provide folds of laminated full-color.”

– Birding Business Magazine

“Pocket Naturalist guides are to nature-loving backpackers what Cliffs Notes are to teens trying to navigate Shakespeare: essential.”

– Backpacker Magazine