ISBN:

• 9780395535172
• 0395535174

Description: xiv, 299 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Other Title: Advanced birding

Notes:

• Sponsored by the National Audubon Society, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index.

Contents:

• Editor's note
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Challenges in birding and how to approach them
• 2. The winter loons
• 3. The western grebe complex
• 4. Medium-sized white herons
• 5. The dark ibises
• 6. The Scaup
• 7. Brief notes on other ducks
• 8. The accipiters
• 9. Basics of shorebird identification
• 10. The dowitchers
• 11. Sharp-tailed and pectoral sandpipers
• 12. Semipalmated and western sandpipers
• 13. The jaegers
• 14. Basics of learning the gulls
• 15. Franklin's and laughing gulls
• 16. The Thayer's gull complex
• 17. Brief notes on other gulls
• 18. The medium-sized terns
• 19. Brief notes on other terns
• 20. The screech-owls
• 21. Hummingbirds
• 22. The yellow-bellied sapsucker complex
• 23. The wood-pewees
• 24. The Empidonax flycatchers
• 25. The chickadees
• 26. Bendire's thrasher
• 27. The Philadelphia vireo complex
• 28. Tips for identifying fall warblers
• 29. The Blackpoll trio
• 30. The waterthrushes
• 31. Notes on other warblers
• 32. Identifying sparrows : the generic approach
• 33. Cassin's and Botteri's sparrows
• 34. The Spizella sparrows
• 35. The Carpodacus finches
• Annotated bibliography
• Index.

LCCN: 89071668

Control Number: 36559

Series:

• Peterson field guide series
• Peterson field guide series ; 39.
• The Peterson field guide series
• The Peterson field guide series ; 39

Subjects:

• Bird watching -- North America -- Guidebooks.
• Birds -- North America -- Identification.

Genre: Guidebooks.

Other Authors:

• National Audubon Society.
• National Wildlife Federation.
• Roger Tory Peterson Institute.