The Audubon Society Master Guide to Birding: Gulls to dippersVolume 1 contains: Loons, Grebes, Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Petrels, Storm-Petrels, Tropicbirds, Boobies and Gannets, Pelicans, Cormorants, Anhingas, Frigatebirds, Herons, Ibises and Spoonbills, Storks, Flamingos, Swans, Geese, and Ducks, New World Vultures, Hawks and Eagles, Falcons, Chachalacas, Pheasants, Grouse, and Quails, Rails, Limpkins, Cranes, Thick-knees, Plovers, Oystercatchers, Stilts and Avocets, Jacanas. Sandpipers. |
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... North America until 1808 , when the first volume of Wilson's American Ornithology appeared . A major ornithological work in its day was Elliott Coues ' two- volume Key to North American Birds , published in 1872 and still in print in ...
... North America until 1808 , when the first volume of Wilson's American Ornithology appeared . A major ornithological work in its day was Elliott Coues ' two- volume Key to North American Birds , published in 1872 and still in print in ...
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... North America . Cuculiformes The cuckoos and their allies make up the order Cuculiformes . Only the cuckoos of the family Cuculidae occur in North America ; also in this order are the Old World turacos and plaintain - eaters of the ...
... North America . Cuculiformes The cuckoos and their allies make up the order Cuculiformes . Only the cuckoos of the family Cuculidae occur in North America ; also in this order are the Old World turacos and plaintain - eaters of the ...
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... America . They generally feed on insects and on fruits gathered during short , hovering flights . Males are brighter in color than females ; in the North American species , the males have bright red bellies and green or blue - green ...
... America . They generally feed on insects and on fruits gathered during short , hovering flights . Males are brighter in color than females ; in the North American species , the males have bright red bellies and green or blue - green ...
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Adult in flight Alaska areas Arizona Auklet belly birders black bill blackish Breeding adult breeding plumage British Columbia brown buff Bushtit central color Common Common Ground-Dove Common Nighthawk Common Raven conspicuous crest crown dark darker Description distinctive dusky eastern eye-ring female First-winter bird flanks Florida Flycatcher forehead forests gorget gray mantle Gull habitat Hairy Woodpecker head Hummingbird Iceland Gull identify Immature Islands Juveniles Kenn Kaufman Kingbird legs lower mandible mandible Mexico mottled mountains Murrelet nape neck nests North America northern numbers outer tail feathers pale gray paler pattern perch plumage primaries Range Breeds Range Resident rare rufous Scott short Similar Species slightly southeastern southern California streaks stripe Swallow Tern Terrill Texas Thayer's Gull tufts underparts undertail coverts upperparts usually Voice Song western Western Gull white outer white spots White underparts whitish wing coverts wing linings wing tips wingbeats woodlands Woodpecker Wren yellow