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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... Canada. Birds that are not here I deemed too rare, too geographically isolated, or (in the case of several introduced and recently established species) too biologically tenuous to make the cut. Examples include Common Ringed Plover, an ...
... Canada Goose . The sound of a distant flock has a petulant , nagging quality . Feeding flocks emit a low harmonic buzz . PERTINENT PARTICULARS : Along the Atlantic Coast , single or small groups of Greater White - fronted Geese from ...
... Canada Goose. Distant birds seem like shimmering white threads caught in the wind. If you hear high-flying geese and can't find them, chances are they are Snow Geese. VOCALIZATIONS: Classic call is a rough-sounding single-note bugle ...
... Canada Goose. A great bird, but in this case possibly not the right bird. Canada Geese say “Ah-ronk,” not “WAH”—a distinction a Lenape hunter might have made. Ross's. Goose,. Chen. rossii. Toy. Snow. Goose. STATUS: Local in the West, in ...
... Canada. Goose,. Branta. canadensis. Common. Canada. Goose. STATUS: Common widespread northern breeder and southern winter resident; increasingly a ubiquitous and widespread resident. DISTRIBUTION: Breeds through virtually all of Canada, ...
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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