Better birding : tips, tools, and concepts for the field
Record details
- ISBN: 0691129657
- ISBN: 9780691129655
- ISBN: 0691129665
- ISBN: 9780691129662
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Physical Description:
318 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm
print - Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction. Wide-angle birding: be the bird, see the bird ; Becoming a "good birder": understanding the basics ; Birding mentors ; Why birding is cool -- Waterbirds. Loons ; Swans ; Mallard and monochromatic "mallards" ; White herons -- Coastal birds. Eiders ; Brachyramphus murrelets ; Pacific cormorants -- Seabirds. Sulids: northern gannet and boobies ; Tropical terns ; Atlantic gadflies -- Large shorebirds. Curlews ; Godwits -- Skulkers. Marsh sparrows ; Small wrens (troglodytes and cistothorus) -- Birds of forest and edge. Accipiters ; American rosefinches -- Aerial insectivores. Swifts -- Night birds. Screech-owls: an "otus" and the megascops ; Nighthawks -- Open-country birds. Yellow-bellied kingbirds ; Black corvids: crows and ravens ; Pipits ; Longspurs ; Cowbirds. |
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Subject: | Birds United States Identification Birds Canada Identification Birds Canada United States |
Genre: | Guidebooks. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | 598 ARM (Text) | 000132149 | Nonfiction | Available | - |