The Shorebirds of North America
- ISBN-10
- 0670641057
- ISBN-13
- 9780670641055
- Pages
- 270
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1967
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Author
- Gardener D. Stout
Description
This book is a monograph of the shorebirds of North America, containing scientific material for the serious student, as well as an essay by Peter Matthiessen describing the habits and history of these birds. The term "shorebird" is the American counterpart of the British term "wader." The shorebirds have no close relatives but are distantly related to the gulls and terns on the one hand and to the auks on the other. Scientifically, they are one of the three divisions of the order Charadriiformes. The division containing the shorebirds is divided into eleven families, six of which are treated in this book. These are as follows: Burhinidae; Jacanidae; Recurvirostridae; Haematopodidae; Charadriidae; Scolopacidae.--from the Introduction.
