A Field Guide to Western Birds: A Completely New Guide to Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian and North of Mexico"The Birder’s Bible" for more than 60 years, Roger Tory Peterson’s classic Field Guide to Western Birds includes all species found in North America west of the 100th meridian and north of Mexico. Featuring the unique Peterson Identification System, Western Birds contains 165 full-color paintings that show more than 1,000 birds from 700 species. Summer and winter ranges, breeding grounds, and other special range data are shown on easy-to-read range maps. |
Contents
Passerine Perching Birds 230346 | 17 |
Ducklike Birds Miscellaneous Swimmers 2473 | 24 |
Seabirds Gulls etc Aerialists 74108 | 74 |
Laridae | 86 |
Sterninae | 104 |
Longlegged Wading Birds 110117 | 110 |
Smaller Wading Birds 118157 | 118 |
Fowllike Birds 158167 | 158 |
Birds of Prey 168205 | 168 |
Nonpasserine Land Birds 206304 | 206 |
Accidentals | 348 |
Range Maps | 359 |
Checklist | 409 |
Key Sources for Further Reference | 416 |
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1st winter adult Alaska Aleutians America American Crow Arctic Argentina Arizona Baja California band bays belly Bering Sea bill birds blackish breast breeding plumage brown Calif California CALIFORNIA GULL Canada coast coastal color conifer CORMORANT crest crown dark morph DOWITCHER DUCK dusky Eurasia eye-ring Female Field Guide flight FLYCATCHER GOOSE gray GULL Larus Habitat head HUMMINGBIRD Immature juvenile lakes legs Lesser Yellowlegs LOON Male marshes MERGANSER Mexico migrant neck NORTHERN Note outer Aleutians Overhead Pacific pale paler pattern PLOVER prairies Pribilofs Range Rare rufous rusty SANDPIPER SCOTER Similar species SNOW GOOSE Song SPARROW spots STORM-PETREL streaked stripe summer tail TERN Texas THAYER'S GULL throat Topside tundra U.S. Winters underparts vagrant VIREO Voice WARBLER West Western Western Gull WHIMBREL whistle white patches white rump white wing patch whitish wing bars wing linings WOODPECKER woods yellow