Field Guide to the Birds of North AmericaThis field guide of choice for serious birders combines accurate illustrations with useful maps and text in an easily portable format. Textual information includes notes on identification, behavior, habitat, and song; the illustrations depict individual species in varying plumages. |
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Page 214
... crown and nape , black crest ; white below , often with pinkish tinge . Win- ter adult and juvenile have white forehead ; black over top of crown extends forward around eye ; compare with Royal . Juve- niles have variably mottled ...
... crown and nape , black crest ; white below , often with pinkish tinge . Win- ter adult and juvenile have white forehead ; black over top of crown extends forward around eye ; compare with Royal . Juve- niles have variably mottled ...
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... crown , distinct white throat bordered by dark stripe and white stripe . Juvenile has two faint olive wing bars ; plumage is streaked overall ; upperparts tinged with olive ; lacks reddish crown . Clear , whistled song begins with weet ...
... crown , distinct white throat bordered by dark stripe and white stripe . Juvenile has two faint olive wing bars ; plumage is streaked overall ; upperparts tinged with olive ; lacks reddish crown . Clear , whistled song begins with weet ...
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... crown , face , and bib ; pink bill . Win- ter adult's crown is blackish ; cheeks buffy ; throat may be all - black or show white flecks or partial white band . Immature resembles winter adult but shows less black ; white throat is ...
... crown , face , and bib ; pink bill . Win- ter adult's crown is blackish ; cheeks buffy ; throat may be all - black or show white flecks or partial white band . Immature resembles winter adult but shows less black ; white throat is ...
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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 female 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 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