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. |
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... Terns 19. Brief Notes on Other Terns 114 131 134 150 20. The Screech - Owls 153 21. Hummingbirds 160 22. The Yellow - bellied Sapsucker Complex.
... Terns 19. Brief Notes on Other Terns 114 131 134 150 20. The Screech - Owls 153 21. Hummingbirds 160 22. The Yellow - bellied Sapsucker Complex.
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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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Arctic bill shape birders birds blackish Blackpoll Botteri's Botteri's Sparrow breast brown buff call notes Cassin's Cassin's Finch Chickadee color Common Tern conspicuous contrast Cooper's crown dark darker distinctive Dowitcher dusky ear coverts edges Egret Empid Empidonax eye-ring face pattern females field marks Finch first-winter flanks flight Flycatcher Forster's Tern fresh plumage Glaucous-winged gray Hammond's head hummingbirds hybrids Iceland Iceland Gulls identification immature jaegers juvenile Long-billed Long-billed Dowitcher look Loon lower mandible mandible molt nape narrow neck pale paler Philadelphia Vireo Pine Warbler plumage Pomarine Reddish Egret Roseate Tern rufous Sandpiper SAPSUCKER scapulars Scaup screech-owls season Sharp-shinned Sharp-tailed Short-billed Short-billed Dowitcher slightly song Sparrow species spots streaks stripe summer supercilium tail feathers tends Tern tertials Thayer's Gull throat typical underparts undertail coverts upper upperparts usually variable variation Vireo Western WESTERN SCREECH-OWL whitish wing bars wing pattern wingtips winter worn yellow Yellow-bellied