Field guide to the birds of North America.

Book

Field guide to the birds of North America.

National Geographic Society (U.S.) (Added Author).

Summary:

"Completely revised and updated, this most up-to-date bird guide on the market features more than 800 North American birds, including 80 new species. The edition is lavishly illustrated with specially commissioned, full-color illustrations, plus range maps and detailed descriptions."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 0792274512
ISBN: 9780792274513
ISBN: 0792274598
ISBN: 9780792274599
Physical Description: 480 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 1999.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Loons -- Grebes -- Albatrosses -- Shearwaters, petrels. Gadfly petrels -- Storm-petrels -- Frigatebirds; tropicbirds -- Boobies, gannets -- Pelicans -- Anhingas; cormorants -- Herons, bitterns, egrets -- Storks; flamingos -- Ibises, spoonbills -- Ducks, geese, swans. Whistling-ducks; perching ducks ; Dabbling ducks ; Pochards ; Eiders ; Sea Ducks ; Mergansers ; Stiff-tailed ducks; Exotic waterfowl ; Illustration: ducks in flight -- New World vultures; hawks, kites, eagles. Accipiters ; Buteos -- Caracaras, falcons. Illustration: female hawks in flight -- Chacalacas; partridges, grouse, turkeys -- New World quail -- Limpkin; rails, gallinules, coots -- Cranes -- Lapwings, plovers -- Jacanas; oystercatchers; stilts, avocets -- Sandpipers, phalaropes. Dowitchers ; Phalaropes ; Illustration: shorebirds in flight -- Skuas, gulls, terns, skimmers. Jaegers ; Gulls ; Illustration: immature gulls in flight ; Terns -- Auks, murres, puffins -- Pigeons, doves -- Parakeets, parrots -- Cuckoos, roadrunners, anis -- Owls -- Nightjars -- Swifts -- Hummingbirds -- Trogons -- Kingfishers -- Woodpeckers. Sapsuckers -- Tyrant flycatchers. Empidonax flycatchers -- Shrikes -- Vireos -- Crows, jays, magpies -- Larks -- Swallows -- Wrentit; chickadees, titmice -- Verdins; bushtits -- Creepers; nuthatches -- Wrens -- Dippers -- Kinglets; Old World warblers, gnatcatchers -- Old World flycatchers -- Thrushes, robins -- Mockingbirds, thrashers -- Bulbuls; starlings -- Accentors; wagtails, pipits -- Waxwings; silky-flycatchers -- Wood-warblers -- Olive warbler -- Tanagers -- Bananaquits; towhees, sparrows, longspurs, Emberiza buntings -- Cardinals, grosbeaks, passerina buntings -- Blackbirds, orioles -- Finches -- Old World sparrows; Estrildid finches; weavers.