Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion: A Comprehensive Resource for Identifying North American BirdsFrom the award-winning birder and author of Birds of Prey, an authoritative, information-packed guide to distinguishing North American birds. In this book, bursting with more information than any field guide could hold, the well-known author and birder Pete Dunne introduces readers to the “Cape May School of Birding.” It's an approach to identification that gives equal or more weight to a bird's structure and shape and the observer's overall impression (often called GISS, for General Impression of Size and Shape) than to specific field marks. After determining the most likely possibilities by considering such factors as habitat and season, the birder uses characteristics such as size, shape, color, behavior, flight pattern, and vocalizations to identify a bird. The book provides an arsenal of additional hints and helpful clues to guide a birder when, even after a review of a field guide, the identification still hangs in the balance. This supplement to field guides shares the knowledge and skills that expert birders bring to identification challenges. Birding should be an enjoyable pursuit for beginners and experts alike, and Pete Dunne combines a unique playfulness with the work of identification. Readers will delight in his nicknames for birds, from the Grinning Loon and Clearly the Bathtub Duck to Bronx Petrel and Chicken Garnished with a Slice of Mango and a Dollop of Raspberry Sherbet. |
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A Comprehensive Resource for Identifying North American Birds Pete Dunne. Acknowledgments It has taken more than four ... America's birds . I have drawn all my life from this wellspring of knowledge , which makes my efforts here more ...
A Comprehensive Resource for Identifying North American Birds Pete Dunne. national wildlife refuges—the charge of a ... America's birds surpasses Paul's. His contribution to this book cannot be measured or gainsaid, but it may be called ...
A Comprehensive Resource for Identifying North American Birds Pete Dunne. Introduction. First, let's agree on what this book is not—it is not a field guide. Even though its focus is the identification of North America's birds, even though ...
A Comprehensive Resource for Identifying North American Birds Pete Dunne. Where did the inspiration for this guide come ... American birds?” And this is how I came to spend two and a half years traveling around North America, seeking out ...
A Comprehensive Resource for Identifying North American Birds Pete Dunne. and wintering areas ; this passage ... America is that ? " ) into a simple one ( " Is this the species I expect ? ” ) . You're in Cape May Point , New Jersey . You ...
Contents
LOONS | |
ALBATROSSES | |
STORMPETRELS | |
PELICANS | |
HERONS EGRETS AND IBIS | |
STORKS VULTURES AND FLAMINGOS | |
RAILS COOTS LIMPKIN AND CRANES | |
SHOREBIRDSPLOVERS AND SANDPIPERS | |
SKUAS AND JAEGERS | |
TERNS AND SKIMMER | |
ALCIDSAUKS MURRES AND PUFFINS | |
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Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion: A Comprehensive Resource for ... Pete Dunne No preview available - 2013 |