A Field Guide to the Birds: Eastern and Central North AmericaAn easy-to-use, large print edition of the classic, best-selling field guide from Peterson Field Guides For decades, the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America has been a popular and trusted guide for birders of all levels, thanks to its famous system of identification and unparalleled illustrations. Now the guide is reissued in a larger format specially produced for those who don't want to take their reading glasses into the field. Peterson's treasured illustrations have been reproduced in beautiful color, species descriptions include only the most important identification elements--size, voice, and habitat--and color range maps, conveniently located next to the species accounts, have been updated specifically for this book. For more than 85 years, Peterson Field Guides have set the standard by which other field guides are measured. Comprehensive and authoritative, they are essential additions to any naturalist's bookshelf or backpack. |
Contents
Map of Area Covered by This Book inside front cover | 1 |
DUCKS DUCKLIKE | 10 |
SEABIRDS GULLS ETC AERIALISTS 5277 | 52 |
LONGLEGGED WADING BIRDS | 72 |
7889 | 78 |
FOWLLIKE BIRDS | 84 |
90121 | 90 |
Meleagrididae | 122 |
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A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America Roger Tory Peterson,Virginia Marie Peterson No preview available - 2002 |
Common terms and phrases
AMERICAN AMERICAN BLACK DUCK AMERICAN WIGEON Arctic areas belly bill birds Breeds brown brushy Call note coastal color COMMON COMMON EIDER COMMON GOLDENEYE conifer croaks dash line distinct DOWITCHER DUCK East Coast EASTERN Family feeders female Field Guide Flight note Florida FLYCATCHER FOOD forests GALLINULE GOOSE gray GREATER SCAUP GREBE GROSBEAK GULL Larus HABITAT HAWK Buteo head HERON ICELAND GULL immature adult immature immature insects KITE lakes LOON Male marshes MERGANSER migration mud flats neck nest NORTHERN ocean OVERHEAD pale Peterson PHALAROPE PLOVER plumage ponds prairies Rare RED-TAILED HAWK SANDPIPER Calidris SAVANNAH SPARROW SCOTER sexes alike sexes similar SHEARWATER SNOW GOOSE Song south to dash SPARROW species STILT SANDPIPER stripe Subfamily swamps TERN thickets THRUSH TOPSIDE trees tundra VIREO VOICE Wanders WARBLER Dendroica whistled white rump WHITE-WINGED SCOTER WILSON'S PHALAROPE wing linings wingbars winter summer wood edges woodlands WOODPECKER WREN yellow