In this century, no one has done more to promote an interest in living creatures than Roger Tory Peterson, the inventor of the modern field guide.

• A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America (Houghton Mifflin? fifth edition. 2002, earlier editions 1934? 1939? 1941? 1947? 1980? 1994)
• The Field Guide Art of Roger Tory Peterson (Easton Press, 1990. 2 volumes)
• Save the Birds with Antony W. Diamond? Rudolf L. Schreiber? Walter Cronkite (Houghton Mifflin? 1987)
• Peterson First Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-central North America (Houghton Mifflin? 1986)
• Peterson First Guide to Birds of North America (Houghton Mifflin? 1986)
• The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio with Virginia Peterson (Abbeville Press? 1981)
• Penguins (Houghton Mifflin? 1979)
• Birds of America (National Audubon Society? 1978)
• A Field Guide to Mexican Birds with Edward Chalif (Houghton Mifflin, 1973, Spanish translation? Editorial Diana? 1989)
• A Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-central North America with Margaret McKenny). (Houghton Mifflin? 1968)
• The World of Birds with James Fisher (Doubleday? 1964)
• A Field Guide to the Birds of Texas and Adjacent States (Houghton Mifflin? 1960, revised 1963)
• A Bird-Watcher's Anthology (Harcourt Brace? 1957)
• Wild America with James Fisher (Houghton Mifflin, 1955)
• A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe with Guy Mountfort, and P.A.D. Hollom (William Collins, 1954)
• 1965 edition: revised and enlarged in collaboration with I.J. Ferguson-Lees and D.I.M. Wallace
• 1971 impression: ISBN 0 00 212020 8
• 2004 edition: ISBN 978-0007192342
• Wildlife in Color (Houghton Mifflin? 1951)
• How to Know the Birds (Houghton Mifflin? 1949)
• Birds Over America (Dodd, Mead and Company? 1948, revised 1964)
• A Field Guide to Western Birds (Houghton Mifflin? 1941, revised 1961? 1990)
• The Audubon Guide to Attracting Birds with John H. Baker (National Audubon Society? 1941)

• Devlin, John C. and Grace Naismith The World of Roger Tory Peterson - An Authorised Biography. (New York Times Books. 1977) ISBN 0-8129-0694-2
• Carlson, Douglas Roger Tory Peterson: A Biography (The University of Texas Press. 2007) ISBN 978-0-292-71680-3.
• Ehrlich, Paul R., David S. Dobkin and Darryl Wheye The Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds (Fireside. 1988) ISBN 0-6716-5989-8.
• Rosenthal, Elizabeth J. Birdwatcher: the Life of Roger Tory Peterson (The Lyons Press. 2008) ISBN 978-1599212944.