UID:
edocfu_9960739084102883
Format:
1 online resource (589 p.)
ISBN:
1-4930-0732-7
Series Statement:
Falcon Pocket Guide
Content:
Falcon Pocket Guide: Birds of New England is a field guide to more than 300 of the most common and sought-after species in the region. Anatomically correct illustrations and detailed descriptions about each bird''s prominent physical attributes and natural habitat make it easy to identify birds in your backyard, favorite parks, and wildlife areas. Informative and beautiful to peruse, this is the essential resource when you''re out in the field.Falcon Pocket Guides are full-color, visually appealing, on-the-go guides for identifying plants and animals and learning about nature.
Note:
Includes index.
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Title Page; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Notes about the Species Accounts; Bird Topography and Terms; Nonpasserines; Greater White-fronted Goose Ducks, Geese, Mergansers; Snow Goose; Brant; Canada Goose; Tundra Swan; Mute Swan; Wood Duck; American Wigeon; Gadwall; Mallard; American Black Duck; Northern Shoveler; Northern Pintail; Green-winged Teal; Blue-winged Teal; Canvasback; Redhead; Ring-necked Duck; Lesser Scaup; King Eider; Common Eider Geese, Ducks, Mergansers; Surf Scoter; White-winged Scoter; Harlequin Duck; Long-tailed Duck; Bufflehead; Common Goldeneye
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Hooded MerganserCommon Merganser; Red-breasted Merganser; Ruddy Duck; Gray Partridge; Ring-necked Pheasant; Ruffed Grouse; Spruce Grouse; Wild Turkey; Northern Bobwhite; Red-throated Loon; Common Loon; Pied-billed Grebe; Horned Grebe; Red-necked Grebe; Northern Fulmar; Great Shearwater; Sooty Shearwater; Manx Shearwater; Wilson's Storm-Petrel; Leach's Storm-Petrel; Northern Gannet; American White Pelican; Brown Pelican; Double-crested Cormorant; Great Cormorant; American Bittern; Least Bittern; Great Egret; Great Blue Heron; Little Blue Heron; Tricolored Heron; Green Heron; Snowy Egret
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Cattle EgretBlack-crowned Night-Heron; Yellow-crowned Night-Heron; Glossy Ibis; Black Vulture; Turkey Vulture; Osprey; Mississippi Kite; Golden Eagle; Bald Eagle; Sharp-shinned Hawk; Cooper's Hawk; Northern Goshawk; Northern Harrier; Red-shouldered Hawk; Broad-winged Hawk; Red-tailed Hawk; Rough-legged Hawk; American Kestrel; Merlin; Gyrfalcon; Peregrine Falcon; Yellow Rail; Black Rail; Virginia Rail; Sora; Clapper Rail; King Rail; American Coot; Common Moorhen; Black-bellied Plover; American Golden-Plover; Semipalmated Plover; Killdeer; Piping Plover; American Oystercatcher; American Avocet
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WilletSpotted Sandpiper; Greater Yellowlegs; Upland Sandpiper; Whimbrel; Hudsonian Godwit; Marbled Godwit; Ruddy Turnstone; Red Knot; Sanderling; Semipalmated Sandpiper; Western Sandpiper; Least Sandpiper; Pectoral Sandpiper; Purple Sandpiper; Dunlin; Long-billed Dowitcher; Wilson's Snipe; American Woodcock; Wilson's Phalarope; Red-necked Phalarope; Red Phalarope; Ivory Gull; Bonaparte's Gull; Black-headed Gull; Little Gull; Laughing Gull; Ring-billed Gull; Herring Gull; Thayer's Gull; Iceland Gull; Glaucous Gull; Great Black-backed Gull; Black-legged Kittiwake; Least Tern; Caspian Tern
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Roseate TernCommon Tern; Arctic Tern; Forster's Tern; Black Tern; Black Skimmer; Parasitic Jaeger; Dovekie; Razorbill; Common Murre; Black Guillemot; Atlantic Puffin; Rock Pigeon; Mourning Dove; Yellow-billed Cuckoo; Black-billed Cuckoo; Barn Owl; Eastern Screech-Owl; Short-eared Owl; Long-eared Owl; Great Horned Owl; Barred Owl; Snowy Owl; Northern Saw-whet Owl; Northern Hawk Owl; Boreal Owl; Common Nighthawk; Chuck-will's-widow; Whip-poor-will; Chimney Swift; Ruby-throated Hummingbird; Calliope Hummingbird; Belted Kingfisher; Red-headed Woodpecker; Red-bellied Woodpecker
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7627-8362-1
Language:
English
