The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North AmericaThe Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the new standard of excellence in bird identification guides, covering more than 810 North American birds in amazing detail. Now comes a new portable guide from David Sibley that every birder will want to carry into the field. Compact and comprehensive, this new guide features 650 bird species plus regional populations found east of the Rocky Mountains. Accounts include stunningly accurate illustrations—more than 4,200 in total—with descriptive caption text pointing out the most important field marks. Each entry contains new text concerning frequency, nesting, behavior, food and feeding, voice description, and key identification features. Accounts also include brand-new maps created from information contributed by 110 regional experts across the continent. The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America is an indispensable resource for all birders seeking an authoritative and portable guide to the birds of the East. |
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
Learning Songs and Calls | 14 |
Body Feathers | 20 |
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1st winter Adult Adult Adult breeding Adult dark Adult Juvenile Adult nonbreeding American Robin Apr-Aug Aug-Mar belly bill Adult birders birds blackish breast breeding Mar-Aug brown brownish brushy buffy call a high cheek color crown dark gray darker deciduous distinctive drab eastern North America edges eye-ring eyebrow Female flanks Flight call Flycatcher Forages Genus grayish Gull habitat Habits similar head Hummingbird insects Juvenile 1st legs long tail Male morph mudflats nape nasal neck Nests North America Northern Gannet numbers orange overall pale gray paler patch pattern perch plumage pointed wings ponds rare visitor Red-tailed Hawk relatively Rock Dove roosts rufous Sandpiper short tail small groups Song a series Sparrow species streaks tail Adult Tern throat Tree Swallow trees Uncommon underparts undertail coverts underwing coverts upperside Usually solitary Vireo Voice Warbler whistled white underwing whitish wing-bars wingbeats wingtips woods