Featuring the unique Peterson Identification System, a guide to more than 1,000 birds from 700 species, including summer and winter ranges, breeding grounds, and other special range data on easy-to-read maps.
In 1984, the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History (RTPI) was founded in Peterson's hometown of Jamestown, New York, as an educational institution charged by Peterson with preserving his lifetime body of work and making it ...
Green Heron Buforides virescens L18"(46cm) WS 26" (66cm) Small, chunky heron with shortlegs. Back and sides of adult's neckare deep chestnut, green on upperparts is mixed with blue-gray, center of throat and neck white.
This is an indispensable resource for all birders seeking an authoritative yet portable guide to the birds of eastern North America.
SNOWY PLOVER Charadrius alexandrinus See E , W , or T Memo : Pale ; dark legs , dark ear patch , slender black bill . ... also a slightly rolling tur - r - r ( Wetmore ) Similar species : See ( 1 ) Wilson's and ( 2 ) Snowy Plovers .
Mallery Packard , The Birds of Rocky Mountain National Park ; James A. Lane and Harold R. Holt , A Birder's Guide to Denver and Eastern Colorado ; Thomas D. ... Roland H. Wauer , Birds of the Big Bend National Park and Vicinity ; Col.
Provides basic information about the biology, life cycles, and behavior of birds, along with brief profiles of each of the eighty bird families in North America.
Now, with the western edition of this groundbreaking book, it’s possible to visually distinguish bird sounds and identify birds using a field-guide format. At the core of this guide is the spectrogram, a visual graph of sound.
With The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America, you won't need to wonder what all that racket is anymore! • Each entry is accompanied by facts about a bird's (annoying) call, its (dumb) migratory pattern, its (downright tacky) ...
Field Guide to Western Birds
The most comprehensive identification guide to the birds of North America, Eastern Region.Discover 706 species of birds known to breed east of the 100th meridian in the United States and...