The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North AmericaThe Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the new standard of excellence in bird identification guides, covering more than 810 North American birds in amazing detail. Now comes a new portable guide from David Sibley that every birder will want to carry into the field. Compact and comprehensive, this new guide features 703 bird species plus regional populations found west of the Rocky Mountains. Accounts include stunningly accurate illustrations—more than 4,600 in total—with descriptive caption text pointing out the most important field marks. Each entry contains new text concerning frequency, nesting, behavior, food and feeding, voice description, and key identification features. Accounts also include brand-new maps created from information contributed by 110 regional experts across the continent. The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America is an indispensable resource for all birders seeking an authoritative and portable guide to the birds of the West. |
Contents
Preface 26 Loons | 8 |
Finding Rare Birds 14 Exotic Waterfowl Geese Swans | 15 |
Parts of a Shorebird 24 141 Plovers Oystercatchers Stilts | 141 |
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1st winter Adult Adult Adult breeding Adult dark Adult nonbreeding Apr-Aug Aug-Mar barred bill Adult bill white birders birds blackish breast breeding Mar-Aug bright brown brownish brushy buffy buzzy call a high cheek color Common locally crown Curve-billed Thrasher dark gray darker distinctive drab eye-ring eyebrow Feeds Female flanks Flight call Flycatcher foraging Genus gray-brown grayish Grebe Gull habitat Habits similar head Hummingbird insects Juvenile Juvenile 1st legs long tail mainly Male mudflats nape nasal neck Nests North America numbers orange overall pale gray paler patch pattern perch plumage pointed wings ponds rare visitor Red-tailed Hawk relatively roosts rufous Sandpiper scapulars Sep-Mar short tail slightly small groups Song a series Sparrow species spots streaks Taiga tail Adult throat Titmouse trees trill tundra Uncommon underparts undertail coverts Usually solitary Vireo Voice Warbler whistled white belly whitish wing-bars wingbeats wingtips woods