The
WhatBird MAG Field Guide allows you to create custom field guides which can be
downloaded and printed on a color printer. Soon you will be able to order field guides
as a printed and bound book. Currently Make-a-Guide is in Beta testing and we
are not charging anything for it. Here are some ways you can use the MAG:
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Gift field guides for friends and family with your own cover
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Customized Cliff Notes-style field guides
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List of just your local birds
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To eliminate carrying a large field guide in the field
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Teaching classes on identification
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As a supplement to other field guides
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For those tough ID problems
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As a promotional tool for small bird sanctuary
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As searchable field guide on your computer
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For targeted travel or vacation, like a Pelagic trip
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To put on your SD card for a PDA or Palm Pilot
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Below are just a few of the hundreds of field guides and pocket guides people have created with Make-a-Guide. For custom
guides and covers
contact
us directly. |
For this testing phase we are offering three field guide formats: a 6 inch x 9 inch, with each bird taking two pages,
a 6 x 9 inch with one bird per page, and an 8.5 x 11 inch with one bird per page.
These formats require minimal trimming and after printing and you can bind it in several ways:
folder, small 3 ring binder, coil or spiral bound. The 8.5 x 11 allows you
to print two birds per page on 8.5 x 14 inch legal paper, and then fold the pages to make a nice booklet.
The 6 x 9 one bird per page format can be printed the same way on 8.5 x 11 letter size paper.
In this free Beta you can include up to 20 birds per book from any family. When you are ready, click
our Next button. To make a correction, click our Previous button; not your browser's Back button.
After the Beta period we will offer an expanded service. You will be able to
pick any number of birds in your field guide, and print them out in more than one format. You will
also be able to download preselected field guides with any number of birds with just a
few clicks, such as all backyard birds or all the birds of a single state.