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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... juveniles . Plump body , short legs , and long bill form a distinctive profile . Upper mandible droops at tip . Note also the unusual forked eyebrow . juvenile juvenile juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos L 83⁄4 " 176 SANDPIPERS.
... juveniles . Plump body , short legs , and long bill form a distinctive profile . Upper mandible droops at tip . Note also the unusual forked eyebrow . juvenile juvenile juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos L 83⁄4 " 176 SANDPIPERS.
Page 187
National Geographic Society (U.S.). winter winter Curlew Sandpiper Sandpiper winter juvenile winter juvenile Shorebirds in Flight Snowy Plover Piping Plover Semipalmated Plover Eurasian. Willet Greater Yellowlegs CEL reen andpiper juvenile ...
National Geographic Society (U.S.). winter winter Curlew Sandpiper Sandpiper winter juvenile winter juvenile Shorebirds in Flight Snowy Plover Piping Plover Semipalmated Plover Eurasian. Willet Greater Yellowlegs CEL reen andpiper juvenile ...
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... juvenile Ringed Plover juvenile winter Mongolian Plover Little Ringed Plover bree winter Killdeer Mountain Plover Wilson's Plover juvenile Pacific ... juvenile winte juvenile winter winter winter winter juvenile juvenile Skuas , Gulls ,. 188.
... juvenile Ringed Plover juvenile winter Mongolian Plover Little Ringed Plover bree winter Killdeer Mountain Plover Wilson's Plover juvenile Pacific ... juvenile winte juvenile winter winter winter winter juvenile juvenile Skuas , Gulls ,. 188.
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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