Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification ChallengesWritten by the experts at Bird Watcher's Digest, Identify Yourself gives beginning and intermediate bird watchers a helping hand with some of the most confounding identification challenges -- birds that are commonly encountered but difficult to tell apart. Combining clear, easy-to-understand text with beautiful illustrations that show key field marks, Identify Yourself is the solution to identifying many of North America's hard-to-distinguish birds.. |
Contents
Accipiters | 86 |
be possible | 114 |
GULLS AND TERNS | 134 |
CUCKOOS | 160 |
OWLS | 170 |
WOODPECKERS | 177 |
SHRIKES | 189 |
VIREOS | 197 |
THRUSHES | 260 |
TANAGERS AND BUNTINGS | 307 |
SPARROWS | 316 |
BLACKBIRDS AND ORIOLES | 349 |
FINCHES | 361 |
Resources | 370 |
Contributor Biographies and Credits | 376 |
Marshall Iliff a lifelong birder and a tour leader for Victor Emanuel | 377 |
Common terms and phrases
adult male American crows bank swallows belly bill shape bird watchers bird's birders black-billed black-cappeds bluebirds Bonaparte's gull breast breeding plumage brown bunting buteo cave swallows characters clue color common confusing contrast crown cuckoo dark darker difference dowitchers ducks eared grebes egret ENTIFY eye-ring face fairly falcons fall feathers female field guide field marks finches flight flocks flycatcher flying birds Franklin's gulls gray greater scaup grebes habitat hawk head hooded house wren identify immature juvenile kinglets laughing gulls legs look loon mergansers migration nonbreeding North America northern overall owls pale paler patch pattern Philadelphia vireo plover plumage range ravens red-eyed vireo rough-winged rump scaup scoters shorebirds shrikes similar slightly song sparrow species spots stilt sandpiper streaks stripe tail tanager tern throat thrush tree swallows underparts undertail coverts upperparts usually violet-green vireo warblers waxwing willet wing bars wingtips winter wrens woodpecker yellow yellow-billed yellowlegs