Field Guide to the Birds of North AmericaA bestseller with more than a quarter million copies sold, this completely revised and updated edition is still one of the most authoritative, sought-after guides to birds of North America on the market--for birders of all levels. 280 color plates. 630 range maps. |
Contents
Introduction | 6 |
Loons 24 Grebes 681 28 Albatrosses | 11 |
Shearwaters Petrels 32 Gadfly Petrels 1999 42 StormPetrels 46 Frigatebirds Tropicbirds bks 48 Boobies Gannets | 48 |
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1st winter adult adult adult juvenile Adult male Alaska Aleutians American Black Duck band belly bill birds breast breeding adult breeding plumage brown buff buffy California Calls include casual chestnut coastal color Common Black-Hawk crown dark darker distinct distinguish Dowitcher duller ear patch east eastern edge eye ring eyebrow Fairly common fall first-winter flanks flight Florida Flycatcher grayish Gull habitats head Hummingbird immature islands juvenile juvenile juvenile lacks Lawrence Island legs loud Male's mandible migration molt morph nape neck nests North America Northern numbers Orange Bishop overall Pacific Golden-Plover paler Phalarope Plover plumage primaries race Range rare resembles rufous rump Salton Sea Sandpiper shows slightly smaller Song southern Sparrow spot spring streaked stripe subspecies summer Texas throat Titmouse Uncommon underparts undertail coverts upperparts variable Vireo Warbler western whistled white wing whitish wing bars wing linings wing patch wingbeats winter adult woodlands Woodpecker yellow