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[nxylas]

Can anyone recommend a good field guide, to help me identify species I don't recognize? I used to have a great guide to British birds that had a very detailed section listing several features and breaking them down into colors and sizes. For example, if you saw a medium-sized black bird with a grey nape, you could look in the section marked "grey", then the subsection marked "nape" and see a list of all birds with grey napes, subdivided by size. If there are too many examples, you could cross-reference with the "overall appearance" subsection of the "black" section. You would then go through the pictures of the listed birds until you came to the bird you saw (in this case, I'm thinking of a jackdaw, but that was just a random example pulled off the top of my head). Does any book like that exist for American birdies?