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Kaufman, Kenn.
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Birds -- North America -- Identification.
Bird watching -- North America -- Guidebooks.
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Kaufman, Kenn.
Birds -- North America -- Identification.
Bird watching -- North America -- Guidebooks.
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Kaufman field guide to advanced birding : understanding what you see and hear / Kenn Kaufman ; illustrated with line drawings by the author and with more than 700 images based on photos by Kenn Kaufman ... [et al.].
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Kaufman, Kenn.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2011.
Call #:
598
.072
K21k
Subjects
Birds -- North America -- Identification.
Bird watching -- North America -- Guidebooks.
ISBN:
9780547248325
0547248326
Alternate title:
Field guide to advanced birding : understanding what you see and hear
Edition:
[2nd. ed.]
Description:
448 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Revision of: A field guide to advanced birding. 1990.
Includes index.
Contents:
An integrated approach to field identification of birds -- Principles and pitfalls of field identification -- How birds are built: terminology and bird topography -- Plummages, molt, and wear: understanding what you see -- Behavior and voice: understanding and using them in identification -- Identification beyond the species level -- Techniques and resources for learning bird identification -- Learning to identify waterfowl -- The scaup -- The winter loons -- Learning to identify seabirds -- Learning to identify herons and egrets -- Learning to identify the diurnal raptors -- The accipiters -- Learning to identify shorebirds -- The small calidris sandpipers -- Learning to identify gulls -- Learning to identify terns -- The medium-sized terns -- The jaegers -- Learning to identify owls -- Learning to identify hummingbirds -- Learning to identify woodpeckers -- Learning to identify tyrant flycatchers -- The empidonax flycatchers -- Learning to identify swallows -- Learning to identify warblers -- The blackpoll trio -- Learning to identify sparrows -- The spizella sparrows.
Summary:
A guide that helps intermediate birders advance their skills by teaching principles that apply to all groups of birds in addition to details about the most challenging groups to identify.--Provided by publisher.
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