| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
471 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 cm |
| Note |
"A Chanticleer Press edition." |
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Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Key to the species accounts -- Bird topography -- Loons -- Grebes -- Albatrosses, petrels, and shearwaters -- Storm-petrels -- Pelecaniformes -- Cormorants -- Wading birds -- Swans and geese -- Dabbling ducks -- Diving ducks -- Diurnal raptors -- Upland game birds -- Gruiformes -- Plovers, Oystercatchers, stilts, and avocets -- Sandpipers -- Skuas, jaegers, and gulls -- Terns and skimmers -- Alcids -- Pigeons and doves -- Parrots and their allies -- Cuckoos and their allies -- Owls -- Goatsuckers -- Trogons and quetzals -- Kingfishers -- Swifts -- Hummingbirds -- Woodpeckers -- Tyrant flycatchers -- Shrikes and vireos -- Jays, crows, and their allies -- Larks -- Swallows -- Chickadees, nuthatches, and their allies -- Wrens -- Dipper and wrentit -- Kinglets, Old World warblers, and gnatcatchers -- Thrushes -- Mimids -- Wagtails and pipits -- Waxwings, silky-flycatchers, and starlings -- Wood-warblers -- Tanagers, cardinals, and their allies -- Emberizine sparrows and their allies -- Icterids -- Finches and Old World sparrows. |
| Summary |
Features 703 bird species plus regional populations found west of the Rocky Mountains. Accounts include more than 4,600 illustrations with descriptive caption text pointing out the most important field marks. Each entry contains new text concerning frequency, nesting, behavior, food and feeding, voice description, and key identification features. Accounts also include maps created from information contributed by 110 regional experts across the continent. |
| Subject |
Bird watching -- North America -- Guidebooks.
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Bird watching. |
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North America. |
| Genre/Form |
Guidebooks.
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| Subject |
Birds -- North America -- Identification.
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Birds. |
| Genre/Form |
Field guides.
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| Subject |
Birds -- West (U.S.) -- Identification.
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Birds -- Canada, Western -- Identification.
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Western Canada. |
| Genre/Form |
Guidebooks.
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| Added Title |
Field guide to birds of western North America |
| ISBN |
0679451218 paperback |
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