TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brinkley,Edward S.
ED  - National Wildlife Federation.
TI  - Field guide to birds of North America
SN  - 1402738749 (pbk. : alk. paper)
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Sterling Pub. Co.
KW  - Birds
KW  - North America
KW  - Identification
N1  - At head of title: National Wildlife Federation; Includes bibliographical references (p. 508-509) and indexes; Introduction --; Scope and arrangement of this guide --; Classification --; Parts of a bird --; Plumage and molt --; Immature plumages --; Adult plumages --; Plumage variation --; How to identify birds --; Birds in action --; Identifying birds by ear --; Limits of field identification --; Vagrancy in birds --; Natural history of birds --; Habitats --; Foraging --; Breeding --; Flight --; Migration --; Conservation --; Getting involved in bird conservation --; About the guide --; How to bird --; Getting started --; Binoculars and scopes --; Logistics --; Ducks, geese, and swans --; Scaup, eiders, scoters, goldeneyes --; Mergansers, geese, brant, swans --; Loons and grebes --; Auks, murres, puffins, and kin --; Guillemots, murres, razorbill, murrelets, dovekie, auklets, puffins --; Pelicans, cormorants, boobies, and allies --; Pelicans, tropicbirds, gannet, boobies, frigatebird, cormorants, anhinga --; Tubenoses --; Albatrosses, petrels, shearwaters, fulmar, storm-petrels --; Gulls, terns, skimmer, and kin --; Jaegers, skuas, gulls, kittiwakes, terns, noddies, skimmer --; Wading birds --; Herons, egrets, cranes, bitterns, night-herons, ibises, limpkin, spoonbill, flamingo, stork --; Rails, gallinules, coots, and kin --; Rails, sora, moorhen, coot, gallinule, swanphen --; Quail, grouse, turkey, and kin --; Quail, partridge, ptarmigan, grouse, pheasant, turkey, chachalaca --; Vultures and diurnal raptors --; Vultures, condor, osprey, harrier, caracara, kites, hawks, eagles, falcons --; Shorebirds --; Plovers, oystercatchers, sandpipers, curlews, godwits, pharlaropes, dowitchers, avocet, stilt, and kin --; Pigeons and doves --; Parrots and parakeets --; Cuckoos, ants, and roadrunner --; Owls, nighthawks, and nightjars --; Owls, nighthawks, poorwill, whip-poor-will, nightjars, pauraque --; Kingfishers and trogons --; Kingfishers, trogon, quetzal --; Woodpeckers --; Woodpeckers, sapsuckers, flickers --; Swifts and swallows --; Swifts, swallows, martin --; Hummingbirds --; Tyrant flycatchers --; Flycatchers, pewee, wood-pewees, beardless-tyrannulet, phoebes, kingbirds, becard --; Shrikes --; Vireos --; Chickadees, titmice, and allies --; Titmice, chickadees, nuthatches, wrentit, creeper, bushtit, verdin --; Wrens and dipper --; Warblers, kinglets, gnatcatchers, and allies --; Kinglets, warblers, gnatcatchers, parulas, redstarts, waterthrushes --; Thrushes, mimids, waxwings, and allies --; Thrushes, bluebirds, mimids, thrashers, waxwings, starling, bulbul, phainopepla --; Jays, crows, and kin --; Jays, nutcracker, magpies, ravens, crows --; Blackbirds, orioles, and kin --; Cowbirds, grackles, blackbirds, bobolink, meadowlarks, orioles --; Tanagers, cardinals, and kin --; Tanagers, grosbeaks, buntings, cardinal, pyrrhuloxia --; Finches --; Redpolls, finches, siskin, rosy-finches, goldfinches, brambling, grosbeaks, crossbills --; Sparrows and allies --; Towhees, sparrows, seedeater, juncos, buntings, longspurs, dickcissel, bananaquit --; Pipits, wagtails, and larks --; Acknowledgments --; Photo credits --; Glossary --; Resources and references --; Vagrant, rare, and extinct birds --; Endangered and threatened birds of North America --; Species checklist --; Species index --; Quick index
N2  - A photographic field guide to North American birds, featuring over 750 species, which covers their habitats, behavior, flight, migration, songs, and plumage and includes distribution maps, a glossary, and bird watching and identification strategies
ER  -