Displaying 1 of 1 2005 Format: Book Title: Identify yourself : the 50 most common birding identification challenges / Bill Thompson III ... [et al. ; and the editors of the Bird Watcher's digest] ; illustrated by Julie Zickefoose. Publisher, Date: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Description: xxiv, 392 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm Summary: Offers information on how to identify many North American birds which are difficult to distinguish. Focuses on fifty most common bird identification problems such as specific hawks, swallows, sparrows, and shore birds. Subjects: Birds -- North America -- Identification. Other Author: Thompson, Bill, III, 1962-2019. Other Title: Bird watcher's digest. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-375) and index. Contents: Getting started: top 20 rules of the bird identification game -- Bird topography: the parts of a bird -- Waterfowl : Mergansers ; Scoters ; Grebes ; Ring-necked duck and scaup ; Teal ; Winter loons -- Wading birds : Brown herons ; White herons ; Dark ibises -- Hawks : Basics of hawk ID ; Soaring buteos ; Falcons ; Accipiters ; Eagles -- Shorebirds : Basics of shorebird ID ; Yellowlegs ; Plovers ; Medium probing shorebirds -- Gulls and terns : Basics of gull ID ; Hooded gulls -- Medium-sized terns ; Large crested terns -- Cuckoos -- Owls -- Woodpeckers : Hairy and downy woodpeckers -- Flycatchers -- Shrikes -- Vireos : Plain-winged vireos ; "Spectacular" vireos -- Corvids -- Swallows : Basics of swallow ID ; Green swallows ; Rusty swallows -- Drab swallows -- Chickadees -- Wrens and kinglets : Small wrens -- Kinglets -- Thrushes : Bluebirds ; Brown thrushes -- Waxwings -- Warblers : Basics of warbler ID ; Confusing spring warblers ; Confusing fall warblers ; Streaky fall warblers ; Plain fall warblers -- Tanagers and buntings : Tanagers ; Buntings ; Sparrows : Basics of sparrow ID ; Songlike sparrows ; Spizella sparrows ; Ammodramus sparrows ; Crowned sparrows -- Blackbirds and orioles : Female blackbirds -- Female orioles -- Finches : Small red finches -- Common and scientific names of birds. Web Site: Contributor biographical information Publisher description LCCN: 2004062901 ISBN: 0618514694 9780618514694 Other Number: 57373669 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 154702 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 598.072347 Identify Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
