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Genre/Form: | Reference sources Field guides Guidebooks Identification |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kaufman, Kenn. Field guide to advanced birding. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1990 (OCoLC)755256942 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kenn Kaufman; National Audubon Society.; National Wildlife Federation.; Roger Tory Peterson Institute. |
ISBN: | 0395535174 9780395535172 039597500X 9780395975008 0395533767 9780395533765 039552282X 9780395522820 |
OCLC Number: | 20852923 |
Notes: | Cover title: Advanced birding. Sponsored by the National Audubon Society, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute." |
Description: | xiv, 299 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm |
Contents: | Editor's note -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Challenges in birding and how to approach them -- 2. The winter loons -- 3. The western grebe complex -- 4. Medium-sized white herons -- 5. The dark ibises -- 6. The Scaup -- 7. Brief notes on other ducks -- 8. The accipiters -- 9. Basics of shorebird identification -- 10. The dowitchers -- 11. Sharp-tailed and pectoral sandpipers -- 12. Semipalmated and western sandpipers -- 13. The jaegers -- 14. Basics of learning the gulls -- 15. Franklin's and laughing gulls -- 16. The Thayer's gull complex -- 17. Brief notes on other gulls -- 18. The medium-sized terns -- 19. Brief notes on other terns -- 20. The screech-owls -- 21. Hummingbirds -- 22. The yellow-bellied sapsucker complex -- 23. The wood-pewees -- 24. The Empidonax flycatchers -- 25. The chickadees -- 26. Bendire's thrasher -- 27. The Philadelphia vireo complex -- 28. Tips for identifying fall warblers -- 29. The Blackpoll trio -- 30. The waterthrushes -- 31. Notes on other warblers -- 32. Identifying sparrows : the generic approach -- 33. Cassin's and Botteri's sparrows -- 34. The Spizella sparrows -- 35. The Carpodacus finches -- Annotated bibliography -- Index. |
Series Title: | Peterson field guide series, 39. |
Other Titles: | Advanced birding. |
Responsibility: | text and illustrations by Kenn Kaufman. |
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Abstract:
Explains how to identify the most difficult species of birds.
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