Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest: Tracking and Identifying Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, and Invertebrates (A Timber Press Field Guide)

Approachable, informative, and sets a high bar for track and sign field guides.

This is a seriously amazing book! My husband and I love to hike, and this book lets us identify the animal tracks and markings that we see while on our hikes. The cover is beautiful, the pictures inside are stunning, and the text is packed with information and very easy to understand. This book also makes a great gift, as I've bought it for family that's interested in wildlife, and they loved it. It makes a great "coffee table" book too, as all of our guests are drawn to the lovely cover and can't help checking it out. The author is fantastic, and I would feel comfortable buying anything by him without sampling it first. If you live in the Pacific Northwest and love to hike (and even if you don't), I would recommend this book. It's always fun to learn something new, and this book is a great way to do that. My thanks to the author. Highly recommended!

Amazing book - the level of detail is great. I was lucky enough to take a tracking course with David recently and that made me understand how comprehensive the book is. Great photographs and the images of tracks / paw prints at the back of the book is really helpful.

It’s a good book with nice paper stock and photos. There isn’t an over abundance of information about each animal so you may end up on Google.

Nerd heaven. I learned how to track banana slugs. Due to this books great knowledge, I discovered a hawk eating a pigeon high in a tree in San Francisco!! Education is something no one can take away from you.

My class was recommended this book by a teacher. While it does not cover every species, it does cover the majority of the mammals likely encountered here. I would prefer more coverage of all the mammals and herps, and leave the the birds for another book. However, I still found this book very informative and would recommend it for those working on learning wildlife native to the Pacific Northwest.

If you're new to wildlife observation and need a field guide book, this book is just amazing. The cover is thicker than your normal paperback so it doesn't get damaged easily and protects the book well. Behind the cover page is a quick index to all the main animals you want to quick reference, then there's a quick section covering all the main animal tracks. Then after that its greater detail on animal behavior etc. This is my go-to book.

Very good field guide for northwest trackers/naturalists. Very helpful to have when i was taking a cyber track eval in western WA. Clear pics and animal habitat info. This book covers everything from mammals to birds to insects. One of my favorite tracking books, and I have most of the well known ones from modern to old school North American authors.