Birds of North America: A Guide to Field IdentificationDistribution maps, color illustrations, and statistics on 700 species of birds are contained in this handy field guide. |
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Abundant adult band belly best field mark Bird Songs birds blue bluebird breast breeding brown buffy Bunting Call CHICKADEE coast color Common Eider Common Tern CORMORANT crest crown dark deciduous diagnostic DOWITCHER ducks eastern Eggs eye ring eye stripe Fairly common Family feeding female FINCH flight flocks FLYCATCHER gray GREBE GROSBEAK ground GULL HAWK head HERON HUMMINGBIRD immature Indigo Bunting insects ISEC lack larger legs Locally common loud male marshes migration neck nest North American Note ORIOLE pale perch PETREL PHALAROPE pine PLOVER plumage Purple Finch range rare Reddish Egret resembles Royal Tern rusty SANDPIPER scoters seen SHEARWATER short similar Snow Goose Song SPARROW species spots Spotted Sandpiper streaked TERN THRASHER THRUSH titmouse told trees trill Uncommon underparts undertail coverts unstreaked VIREO waxwing western whistle white wing patch wingbars wingbeats wings and tail winter summer WOODPECKER woods WREN yellow