There's several series of books. The Audubon Society Field books are pretty nice. There's the Peterson field guide series, some 50 different field guides, everything from the must have Reptiles and Amphibians of western and eastern field guides, to Mammals, Butterflies, Animal tracks, venomous animals & poisonous plants, and everything in between.
I prefer the Petterson Series, because they generally seem to have more in depth info as to localities/range maps, identification, similar species etc., OTOH the info seems more generalized in the Audubon series, but makes up for it with the number of photos that are in them.
Then there are other misc. books that you can get, like I have one that covers the Deserts of the South West, that covers many different things of the area; plants, trees, insects, reptiles, birds, etc., nice for say a tourist cause it covers a little of everything, but only includes the common stuff one might see.
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