Popular guides
“A Field Guide to Western Birds, third edition” by Roger Tory Peterson, 2001.
”Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America” by Kenn Kaufman, 2005.
National Geographic’s “Field Guide to Birds of North America, fifth edition” by Jon L. Dunn and Jonathan Alderfer, editors, 2006.
”The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America” by David Allen Sibley, 2003.
Washington specific
”Birder’s Guide to Washington” by Hal Opperman, 2003.
”Birds of Washington State” by Brian Bell and Gregory Kennedy, 2006.
National Geographic’s “Field Guide to Birds, Washington & Oregon” by Jonathan Adlerfer, 2006.
Other options
American Bird Conservancy’s “All the Birds of North America” by Jack L. Griggs, 2002.
Golden Field Guides “Birds of North America” by Chandler S. Robbins, Bertel Bruun, Herbert S. Zim, Jonathan Latimer, Karen Stray Nolting and James Coe, 2001.
National Audubon Society’s “North American Birds: Western Region” by John Bull and John Farrand Jr., 2000.
On the Web
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