Stokes Beginner's Guide to Bats | 
| Authors: Kim Williams, Rob Mies, Donald Stokes, Lillian Stokes
Brand: Stokes
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 116561
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 70
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0316816582
Dewey Decimal Number: 599.4
EAN: 9780316816588
Publication Date: May 2002
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Product Description
The first field guide to bats! For anyone who is interested in bats, this is the ultimate guide to everything you want to know. Includes: triangle picture Identification of all 45 species of bats in North America, including all of the endangered species. Brilliant color photographs of each species. Information on breeding, feeding, roosting, migration, and hibernation. User-friendly color tab index for quick reference. Up-to-date range maps. Plans for building a bat house and other ways to attract bats. Details on habitat, bat biology, food preferences and more. Information about the benefits of bats, which devour thousands of harmful insects. triangle picture Written by experts Kim Williams and Rob Mies with assistance from Don and Lillian Stokes.
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 Little Book with Big Information May 15, 2008
I have yet to go wrong with any of the little Stokes beginner's guides, and this one is no exception. Full of good information, excellent photos accompanied by reference icons and range maps. If you are just getting into learning about bats, this is the book to have, and if you already love them and just need a very portable field guide, this is an easy one to take along. It is simple enough to interest kids, but informational enough for any adult.
 Stokes Guide to Bat April 5, 2007
Never realized just how many bats there are. I bought this along with the Bat Builder's Handbook for my grand daughers. We can't wait to have some bats move in.
cute little leathery mammal guys July 2, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The fact that you're reading this review indicates that you already know that bats are good guys, not bad guys. 'Nuff said.
Next thing, you'd probably like to have a bunch (they only come in quantities) in your yard. OK, then start with this Stokes guide.
It's bedecked with stunning photos and a cool set of symbols that tell you about migrational (with apologies to Monty Python) patterns, roosting preference, how they fly, and what the little guys like to munch on.
The Stokes Guide will also tell you how to make a bat house so they have a decent place to crash, but you might just as well buy one inexpensively at your local quality birding shop.
You can't go wrong with this attractively presented Beginner's Guide to Bats.
Excellent Bat Book! November 27, 2003
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Last Christmas I got a Bat Detector (from Bat Conservation International). The instructions with it were very poor so I asked a local naturalist if she knew of any good bat books and specifically any that would indicate what frequency to tune the bat detector in to for our local bats. She recommended this book and its terrific! There's a short section up front that talks about bats and how they echolocate as well as the frequencies that they do it at so this was perfect for me and my bat detector (boy is it cool!). The real meat of the book is an id guide with great pictures and interesting information about each ofthe different species of bats - similar to a bird id book. Since bats are genenerally out at dusk and they fly so fast I haven't been able to make use of the pictures and actually id the bats but I've narrowed it down by where we live and what we're likely to see so its fun to have a reference to read about them more specifically. Excellent excellent book and a must have if you've just gotten a bat detector and need to know what frequency to tune into. Highly recommended!
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