The Oxford Book of Birds |
Contents
DESCRIPTIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS | 10 |
SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE BIRDS ANATOMY 194 | |
BEHAVIOUR AND BREEDING 200 | 6 |
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Common terms and phrases
adult arctic skua areas autumn bill BLACK TERN BLACK-HEADED GULL breast breeding season British birds British Isles broods BUNTING clutch colour common COMMON CROSSBILL common tern crest crested grebes darker display distinctive distinguished dive drake duck duller dunlins England Fair Isle feathers feed the young fledge flight flocks grass grebes grey ground gulls habitat hatch head hen harrier insects Ireland islands juveniles legs look mainly male marshes meadow pipit migration moorland neck nest northern occasionally pairs pale paler parents feed parties passage migrants patch perch pipits plumage race rare visitor recorded resemble resident ringed plover rump SANDPIPER Scotland Scottish Highlands shallow shearwaters skua Slavonian grebe sometimes song species spots spring streaked stripe summer visitor tail terns thrush tits tree pipits trees underparts upperparts usually waders wagtail warbler weeks white eggs white wing-bar wings winter visitors yellow young birds