The Audubon Society Master Guide to Birding, Volume 3Volume 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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Adult female Adult male Alaska American Robin areas Arizona belly birders birds Black-throated Blackbird blackish border breeding plumage bright yellow British Columbia brownish buff Bunting California Call note central cheek chestnut color conspicuous crown dark brown Description dull duller ear coverts east eastern Eastern Meadowlark edges eyeline Finch flight flocks Florida forests Golden-winged Warbler gray grayish Grosbeak habitat House Sparrow identify Junco Juvenile Kenn Kaufman lacks longspurs lores loud mandible Mexico migration nape North America olive-green orange Oriole outer tail feathers pale paler plumage Purple Finch Range Breeds rare rufous rump sides and flanks Similar Species south to northern southeastern southern Texas Sparrow spots stripe Tanager Terrill Thrasher throat Thrush underparts undertail coverts upper breast upperparts usually Vireo Voice Song Warbler western Western Bluebird white eye-ring white eyebrow white wing bars white wing patch whitish wing bars wings and tail winter wood warblers yellow underparts yellowish