Better Birding
Tips, Tools, and Concepts for the Field
1st Edition
Published on 8. December 2015
360 pages
978-1-4008-7416-3 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Princeton
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Fixed format
Illustrations
850 color photos. 4 maps., 4 s/w Abbildungen
850 color photos. 4 maps.
File size
285,14 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4008-7416-3 (9781400874163)
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Princeton University Press
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Persons
George L. Armistead is events coordinator at the American Birding Association and a research associate in the Ornithology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. He has led birding tours on all seven continents. Brian L. Sullivan is eBird program codirector and photographic editor for Birds of North America Online at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He is the author of numerous papers on bird identification and the coauthor of The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors and Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast (both Princeton).
Content
Acknowledgments 8
Introduction 10
Wide-Angle Birding: Be the Bird, See the Bird 11
Becoming a "Good Birder": Understanding the Basics 12
Birding Mentors 26
Why Birding Is Cool 26
Waterbirds
Loons 29
Swans 45
Mallard and Monochromatic "Mallards" 57
White Herons 69
Coastal Birds
Eiders 83
Brachyramphus Murrelets 93
Pacific Cormorants 103
Seabirds
Sulids: Northern Gannet and Boobies 115
Tropical Terns 129
Atlantic Gadflies 137
Large Shorebirds
Curlews 149
Godwits 161
Skulkers
Marsh Sparrows 175
Small Wrens (Troglodytes and Cistothorus) 187
Birds of Forest and Edge
Accipiters 199
American Rosefinches 211
Aerial Insectivores
Swifts 221
Night Birds
Screech-Owls: An "Otus" and the Megascops 231
Nighthawks 241
Open-Country Birds
Yellow-bellied Kingbirds 253
Black Corvids: Crows and Ravens 265
Pipits 281
Longspurs 293
Cowbirds 303
Index 312
Introduction 10
Wide-Angle Birding: Be the Bird, See the Bird 11
Becoming a "Good Birder": Understanding the Basics 12
Birding Mentors 26
Why Birding Is Cool 26
Waterbirds
Loons 29
Swans 45
Mallard and Monochromatic "Mallards" 57
White Herons 69
Coastal Birds
Eiders 83
Brachyramphus Murrelets 93
Pacific Cormorants 103
Seabirds
Sulids: Northern Gannet and Boobies 115
Tropical Terns 129
Atlantic Gadflies 137
Large Shorebirds
Curlews 149
Godwits 161
Skulkers
Marsh Sparrows 175
Small Wrens (Troglodytes and Cistothorus) 187
Birds of Forest and Edge
Accipiters 199
American Rosefinches 211
Aerial Insectivores
Swifts 221
Night Birds
Screech-Owls: An "Otus" and the Megascops 231
Nighthawks 241
Open-Country Birds
Yellow-bellied Kingbirds 253
Black Corvids: Crows and Ravens 265
Pipits 281
Longspurs 293
Cowbirds 303
Index 312
