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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Sibley |
| ISBN: | 0679451218 9780679451211 |
| OCLC Number: | 52077800 |
| Notes: | "A Chanticleer Press edition." Includes indexes. |
| Description: | 471 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Classification of birds -- Birding -- Equipment -- Finding birds -- Learning to identify birds -- Variation in appearance -- Geographic variation and subspecies -- Polymorphism -- Wear and fading -- Changes in posture and head shape -- Light and atmospheric conditions -- Cosmetic coloration and staining -- Aberrant plumages -- Bill deformities -- Hybrids -- Molt and plumage -- Learning songs and calls -- Finding rare birds -- Ethics -- Extinct species -- Conservation -- Key to the species accounts -- Names and measurements -- Species descriptions -- Status -- Habitat -- Behavior -- Voice -- Illustrations -- Range maps -- Bird topography -- Parts of a passerine -- Head feathers -- Body feathers -- Wing feathers -- Parts of a gull -- Parts of a duck -- Parts of a shorebird -- Loons -- Grebes -- Albatrosses, petrels, and shearwaters -- Storm-petrels -- Pelecaniformes -- Boobies, frigatebird, pelicans, tropicbird -- Cormorants -- Wading birds -- Bitterns, egrets, flamingos, herons, ibises, night-herons, spoonbill, stork -- Swans and geese -- Domestic waterfowl, exotic waterfowl, geese, swans -- Dabbling ducks -- Puddle ducks, teals, whistling-ducks, wigeons -- Diving ducks -- Eiders, goldeneyes, mergansers, scaup, scoters -- Diurnal raptors -- Caracara, condor, eagles, falcons, hawks, kites, New World vultures, osprey -- Upland game birds -- Chukar, exotic game birds, grouse, partridge, pheasant, prairie-chickens, ptarmigan, quail, turkey -- Gruiformes -- Coot, cranes, gallinule, moorhen, rails, sora -- Plovers, oystercatchers, stilts, and avocets -- Sandpipers -- Curlews, dowitchers, godwits, phalaropes, ruff, sandpipers, snipe, turnstones, whimbrel, willet, yellowlegs -- Skuas, jaegers, and gulls -- Terns and skimmers -- Alcids -- Auklets, dovekie, guillemots, murrelets, murres, puffins, razorbill -- Pigeons and doves -- Parrots and their allies -- Cuckoos and their allies -- Ani, cuckoos, roadrunner -- Owls -- Goatsuckers -- Nighthawks, nightjars -- Trogons and quetzals -- Kingfishers -- Swifts -- Hummingbirds -- Woodpeckers -- Tyrant flycatchers -- Flycatchers, kingbirds, phoebes, wood-pewees -- Shrikes and vireos -- Jays, crows, and their allies -- Crows, jays, magpies, ravens, scrub-jays -- Larks -- Swallows -- Chickadees, nuthatches, and their allies -- Bushtit, chickadees, creeper, nuthatches, titmice, verdin -- Wrens -- Dipper and wrentit -- Kinglets, Old World warblers, and gnatcatchers -- Thrushes -- Bluebirds, robins, thrushes -- Mimids -- Catbird, mockingbird, thrashers -- Wagtails and pipits -- Waxwings, silky-flycatchers, and starlings -- Wood-warblers -- Chat, ovenbird, parula, redstart, warblers, waterthrushes, yellowthroat -- Tanagers, cardinals, and their allies -- Cardinaline buntings, cardinals, dickcissel, grosbeaks, tanagers -- Emberizine sparrows and their allies -- Emberizine buntings, juncos, longspurs, sparrows, towhees -- Icterids -- Blackbirds, bobolink, cowbirds, grackles, meadowlarks, orioles -- Finches and Old World sparrows -- Crossbills, finches, goldfinches, grosbeaks, Old World sparrow, redpolls, siskin. |
| Other Titles: | Field guide to birds of western North America |
| Responsibility: | written and illustrated by David Allen Sibley. |
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Abstract:
Features 703 bird species plus regional populations found west of the Rocky Mountains. Accounts include more than 4,600 illustrations 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 maps created from information contributed by 110 regional experts across the continent.
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