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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... southern British Columbia , southern Alberta , and southwestern Saskatchewan in the summer , but in the winter northern breeding members of this species retreat farther south . This species is not located in Canada in winter . So when ...
... southern winter resident; increasingly a ubiquitous and widespread resident. DISTRIBUTION: Breeds through virtually all of Canada, from the western and central interior of Alaska to Lab. and Nfld. A widespread, primarily northern ...
... southern New Jersey. Nonstop flights between wintering, breeding, and staging areas are the norm, but birds may appear anywhere along migratory routes. Spring migration from late February to May, with peak in late March to early May ...
... Southern. Black. Duck. STATUS AND DISTRIBUTION: Common resident of the coastal marshes of n. Mexico, Tex., and La.; also occurs in reduced numbers in Miss, and Ala. Widespread across the Florida Peninsula. Also established near Savannah ...
... southern Texas. Blue-winged. Teal,. Anas. discors. Crescent-faced. Teal. STATUS: Common, widespread, primarily northern breeder; common, primarily southern and coastal wintering species. Common and widespread migrant. DISTRIBUTION: Breeds ...
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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