Advanced BirdingCovering thirty-five of the most difficult groups of birds, from winter loons to confusing fall warblers, jaegers to chickadees, accipiters to flycatchers, this clearly written and beautifully illustrated field guide tells exactly how to solve the most challenging bird identification problems of North America. |
Contents
Challenges in Birding and How to Approach Them | 1 |
The Winter Loons | 20 |
The Western Grebe Complex | 30 |
Mediumsized White Herons | 34 |
The Dark Ibises | 39 |
The Scaup | 43 |
Brief Notes on Other Ducks | 48 |
The Accipiters | 51 |
The ScreechOwls | 153 |
Hummingbirds | 160 |
The Yellowbellied Sapsucker Complex | 173 |
The WoodPewees | 180 |
The Empidonax Flycatchers | 184 |
The Chickadees | 213 |
Bendires Thrasher | 220 |
The Philadelphia Vireo Complex | 225 |
Basics of Shorebird Identification | 64 |
The Dowitchers | 68 |
Sharptailed and Pectoral Sandpipers | 76 |
Semipalmated and Western Sandpipers | 82 |
The Jaegers | 88 |
Basics of Learning the Gulls | 102 |
Franklins and Laughing Gulls | 109 |
The Thayers Gull Complex | 114 |
Brief Notes on Other Gulls | 131 |
The Mediumsized Terns | 134 |
Brief Notes on Other Terns | 150 |
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Common terms and phrases
adult appear base become bill bill shape birders birds body breast breeding Brewer's Sparrow bright brown buff Cassin's characters close color Common confused conspicuous contrast coverts crown dark darker difficult distinctive dusky early Eastern edges extension face fall females field marks Finch flanks flight Flycatcher forms fresh give gray groups Gull head helpful hummingbirds hybrids identification immature individuals jaegers juvenile larger late least legs length less longer look Loon lower males mandible migration molt narrow neck noticeable obvious outer overall pale paler pattern plumage primaries problem race range rarely relatively rounded Sandpiper season seen separate shape sharply short sides similar slightly sometimes song Sparrow species spring streaks stripe summer tail feathers tends Tern Thayer's throat typical underparts upper usually variable variation Warbler wash Western wing wing bars wingtips winter yellow
Bibliographic information
| Title | Advanced Birding Issue 39 of Peterson field guide series |
| Authors | National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Roger Tory Peterson Institute |
| Illustrated by | Kenn Kaufman |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990 |
| ISBN | 039597500X, 9780395975008 |
| Length | 299 pages |
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