Lives of North American BirdsBirding is one of the fastest-growing activities in America, and this book is aimed at the millions of birders who want not only to identify birds but also to understand them. Key features of this comprehensive and indispensable handbook include: coverage of every species found in North America - more than 900 species, including accidentals and exotics - as well as the larger genus and family groupings; vividly written, detailed descriptions of each species, genus, and family: personality, habitat, feeding habits, nesting habits, migratory patterns, characteristic displays, and conservation status; color photographs and range maps for the more than 600 species regularly seen in North America; an introduction to birds and birding. Just as a Peterson Field Guide(tm) is an essential tool for birding in the field, Kenn Kaufman's Lives of North American Birds is an essential reference for anyone interested in birds in particular or nature in general. |
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adults Alaska amphipods areas beetles Behavior berries bill birders birds breeding range breeding season broods brown brushy built by female caterpillars coast coastal colonies common conifers Courtship displays crustaceans days after hatching deciduous dense diving Downy young leave eats edges Eggs feathers FEEDING Diet feet above ground flies flight flocks Florida Flycatcher Forages forest GENUS grass Gull habitat hummingbirds Incubation insects islands lakes leave the nest mainly marshes mesquite Mexico MIGRATION CONSERVATION STATUS mollusks mountains mudflats Nest built nest sites NESTING Male nesting territory nestlings North America northern numbers open cup pairs pale parents feed young perch permanent resident pine plant material ponds population prairie prey probably rarely rodents Sandpiper seeds sexes shallow water shrubs small fish snails sometimes southern Sparrow species spiders spring storm-petrels stray summer tail Tern thickets trees tropics tundra twigs usually warblers weeds wings winter woodland woods young leave nest НАВІТАТ