Arizona Breeding Bird Atlas, edited by T. Corman and C. Wise-Gervais, 2005. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. $60.00 (hard cover).

Ably edited by two “avian biologists” on the staff of the Arizona Game and Fish Department, and incorporating data collected by over 700 atlas workers (the vast majority of them volunteers), this first major reference work on the state’s birds in 40 years is well designed and richly illustrated, and fully deserves the place of honor it will occupy on birders’ bookshelves, next to the magnum opus of Phillips, Marshall, and Monson. As large in format as it is rich in information, the book is well worth its price.