An Introduction to Nature: Birds, Wild Flowers, TreesThe author's "Introduction to Birds", "Introduction to Wild Flowers", and "Introduction to Trees" have been combined into one volume, with a new foreword. |
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abundant acorns Autumn Baltimore Oriole bark beginner bill Birch bird bloom Blue botanist branches branchlets breast bright buds Bullock's Oriole called Canada catkins Chipping Sparrow Coast color common Composite Family compound leaves cones Cowbird dark dooryards drupes eggs feeding feet flower heads foliage fringes fruit gray green ground grows Hawk Heron inch in diameter inches in length inches long insects Joe-Pye Weed leaf leaflets look lovely male Maple native nest North America Oriole patches petals Pine Pine Siskins pistillate plant plumage purple Purple Finch range roadsides Rockies Rose-breasted Grosbeak Scarlet Tanager scientific name season seed shaped as shown shrub Snowy Egret song southward Sparrow species spots Spotted Sandpiper sprays Spring stalks staminate stem Summer resident swamps tail tall temperate North America Thrush tiny tree trunk United usually Viburnums Warbler wild wing Winter Woodpecker woods yellow