Handbook of North American BirdsRalph Simon Palmer |
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adults AMERICAN authors average banded begin bill birds body breeding brown changes characteristics chick clutches color combinations common completed copulation coverts dark dates defined Definitions describe descriptions display distribution eggs Example fall feathers feeding female fish flies flight flocks flying geographical give given gray ground habitat Habits Handbook hatching head incubation individuals juvenal known Lake late later less lines male marked measurements mentioned migration molt names natal nearly nest NON-NUPTIAL notes NUPTIAL observed occur outline pale parent period phases plumage population Postnuptial Prenuptial present primaries probably range recorded reference relations reported resting rufous sample season sexes sexual short sing sometimes song sound species subspecies summer tail ternery territory trees upper usually variation varies VOICE Weight wing winter yellow young