Field Guide to the Birds of North AmericaCompletely revised and updated, this most up-to-date bird guide on the market features more than 800 North American birds, including 80 new species. This edition is lavishly illustrated with specially commissioned, full-color illustrations, plus range maps and detailed descriptions. |
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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 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 mottled nape neck nests North America Northern numbers Orange Bishop overall Pacific Golden-Plover paler Phalarope Plover plumage primaries race Range rare rufous rump Salton Sea Sandpiper shows sides 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