Sibley Birds West : : Field Guide to Birds of Western North America

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Call Number: 598.072 Si
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Includes index.
Swans and geese -- Ducks -- Upland game birds -- Loons and grebes -- Albatrosses, petrels, and shearwaters -- Storm-petrels -- Pelicans, boobies, and allies -- Cormarants -- Wading birds -- Hawks and vultures -- Gruiformes -- Shorebirds -- Gulls -- Terns and skimmers -- Jaegers and skua -- Alcids -- Pigeons and doves -- Cuckoos and their allies -- Owls -- Goatsuckers -- Swifts -- Hummingbirds -- Kingfishers and trogons -- Woodpeckers -- Falcons -- Parrots -- Tyrant flycatchers and becard -- Shrikes and vireos -- Jays, crows, and their allies -- Larks -- Swallows -- Chickadees, nuthatches, and their allies -- Wrens -- Gnatcatchers, kinglets, and others -- Thrushes -- Mimids -- Wagtails, pipts, waxwings, silky-flycatchers, starlings, longspurs, and olive warbler -- Wood-warblers -- Emberizine sparrows and their allies -- Tanagers, cardinals, and their allies -- Icterids -- Finches and old world sparrows.
This guide features 715 bird species, plus regional populations, found west of the Rocky Mountains. Entries include illustrations -- more than 5,046 in total -- with descriptive captions pointing out the most important field marks. Each entry has been updated to include the most current information concerning frequency, nesting, behavior, food and feeding, voice description, and key identification features. Here too are more than 652 updated maps drawn from information contributed by 110 regional experts across the continent, and showing winter, summer, year-round, migration, and rare ranges.

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Sibley Birds West submitted by yufamily on June 10, 2022, 7:46pm Excellent information. For example, clear descriptions of black-billed and yellow-billed magpies.