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Field Guide to the Birds of North America National Geographic Society (U.S.) No preview available - 1987 |
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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 crown dark darker distinct distinguished Dowitcher duller ear patch east eastern edge eye ring eyebrow Fairly common 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 mottled nape neck nests North America Northern numbers outer tail feathers 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 Thayer's Gull throat Titmouse underparts undertail coverts upperparts variable Vireo Warbler western whistled white wing whitish wing bars wing linings wing patch wingbeats winter adult woodlands Woodpecker yellow