Advanced Birding

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990 - Nature - 299 pages
Covering 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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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
Tips for Identifying Fall Warblers
229
The Blackpoll Trio
233
The Waterthrushes
240
Notes on Other Warblers
243
The Generic Approach
246
Cassins and Botteris Sparrows
252
The Spizella Sparrows
261
The Carpodacus Finches
267
Annotated Bibliography
277
Index
293
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Advanced Birding
National Audubon Society,National Wildlife Federation,Roger Tory Peterson Institute
Limited preview - 1990
A Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Birding Challenges and how to Approach Them
National Audubon Society,National Wildlife Federation,Roger Tory Peterson Institute
Snippet view - 1990
A Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Birding Challenges and how to Approach Them
National Audubon Society,National Wildlife Federation,Roger Tory Peterson Institute
No preview available - 1990

Common terms and phrases

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

About the author (1990)

Kenn Kaufman is a legend among birders. At sixteen he hitchhiked back & forth across North America, traveling eighty thousand miles in a year, simply to see as many birds as he could; he came back to tell the story in "Kingbird Highway." A field editor for "Audubon" & a regular contributor to every major birding magazine, he is the youngest person ever to receive the Ludlow Griscom Award, the highest honor of the American Birding Association. His books include "Lives of North American Birds" & the "Peterson Field Guide to Advanced Birding." He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Bibliographic information

TitleAdvanced Birding
Issue 39 of Peterson field guide series
AuthorsNational Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Roger Tory Peterson Institute
Illustrated byKenn Kaufman
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990
ISBN039597500X, 9780395975008
Length299 pages
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