A Field Guide to the Birds: A Completely New Guide to All the Birds of Eastern and Central North AmericaAll the bird species of eastern and central North America, as well as accidentals, exotics, and escapes, are shown- usually in several plumages-and described with all the helpful detail you expect from a Peterson Field Guide. |
Contents
Introduction | 17 |
Passerine Perching Birds 194289 | 23 |
Alcidae | 36 |
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accidental adult Alaska America American Crow AMERICAN WIGEON Arctic Atlantic belly bill blackish breast Breeds brown Canada Casual coastal color COMMON EIDER COMMON MERGANSER DOWITCHER DUCK dusky EGRET Eurasia eye-ring Female Field Guide Flight note Florida FLYCATCHER GALLINULE GOOSE gray GREATER SCAUP GREATER YELLOWLEGS GREBE Gulf Coast GULL Larus Habitat head Hemisphere HERON Immature Lakes larger legs Lesser Yellowlegs Male marshes MERGANSER Mexico Migrant neck NORTHERN ocean Overhead pale paler pattern PETREL PHALAROPE PLOVER ponds prairies Range rarely RED-TAILED HAWK rufous rusty salt bays SANDPIPER SCOTER Semipalmated Sexes alike sexes similar SHEARWATER Similar species SNOW GOOSE Song SPARROW spots streaked tail TERN throat Topside tundra tundra summer U.S. East U.S. Winters underparts VIREO Voice WARBLER WHIMBREL whistle white wing patch WHITE-WINGED SCOTER whitish WILSON'S PHALAROPE wing bars wing linings wing stripe winter summer woods yellow yellowish Yellowlegs