Fifty Common Birds of Oklahoma and the Southern Great PlainsThis book aims at informing readers, in a painless way, about fifty species of common birds of Oklahoma and the Southern Great Plains, says Dr. George Miksch Sutton, noted ornithologist, writer and bird painter. A full page color plate of a Sutton painting of each bird faces the page of text about that bird. The text itself does not describe the shape and color of the birds in great detail the color plates do that but accents the seasonal status of