About David Allen Sibley
David is the son of Fred Sibley, a Yale University ornithologist, and he started birding when he was a child. Sibley started bird watching in Cap May Point, New Jersey in the year 1980, right after dropping out of college. As a largely self taught bird illustrator, he was inspired to pursue creating his own illustrated field guide after he led tours during the 80s and 90s and found that the existing field guides did not generally describe or illustrate alternate or juvenile plumages of birds. Simple observation always leads to new discoveries and new ideas, and one of David’s greatest satisfactions is learning new things about the natural world. In his books he attempts to pass along some of this knowledge along with the joy and wonder that he has experienced through the years, in order to
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
38 books in seriesPublication Order
- The Birds of Cape May(1997)
- The Sibley Guide to Birds(2000)
- The North American Bird Guide(2000)
- The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior(2001)
- Sibley's Birding Basics(2002)
- The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America(2003)
- Sibley's Backyard Birds of Florida(2005)
- Sibley's Backyard Birds of New England & Northern New York(2005)
- Sibley's Back. Birds of Midatl. & S.C. States(2005)
- Sibley's Owls of North America(2005)
- Sibley's Raptors of Eastern North America(2005)
- Sibley's Backyard Birds of Eastern Texas(2005)
- Sibley's Warblers of Eastern North America(2007)
- Sibley's Hummingbirds of North America(2007)
- Sibley's Waterbirds of the Great Lakes(2007)
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