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All about birds Midwest : Midwest US and Canada
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The perfect guide to the birds of the midwestern United States and central Canada, from the #1 birding website AllAboutBirds.orgThe All About Birds Regional Guide Series brings birding enthusiasts ...
The perfect guide to the birds of the midwestern United States and central Canada, from the #1 birding website AllAboutBirds.orgThe All About Birds Regional Guide Series brings birding enthusiasts the best information from the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology's website, AllAboutBirds.org, used by more than 24 million people each year. These definitive books provide the most up-to-date resources and expert coverage on bird species throughout North America.This dynamic guide is the perfect companion for anyone interested in the birds of the midwestern United States and central Canada. The guide offers fascinating details about the birds around you, useful bird ID tips, and handy bird-watching information. It presents full accounts of the 221 bird species most commonly seen in these regions; beautiful photographs of male, female, and immature birds, as well as morphs, and breeding and nonbreeding plumage (so you can ID birds all year long); current range maps; and so much more. The midwestern USA and central Canada edition of All About Birds is easy to use and easy to share.This volume features the following states, provinces, and territories: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, western Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, central Nunavut, and eastern Northwest Territories.Descriptions of 221 bird species, including four photos for each bird chosen specifically for better ID and sourced from the Macaulay Library (a collection of bird photos from citizen scientists)Quick and easy index with illustrations on cover flaps, complete index at the backInformation on Cornell Lab citizen-science programs and how to participateBonus content includes identification best practices and tips on bird photography, birdscaping, food and feeding, and moreFree MERLIN Bird ID app (downloaded more than 5 million times) for quick ID in the wild using photos and birdsong.
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- Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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- English
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- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2022
- ©2022
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- 1 online resource
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- 9780691230085, 069199000X, 9780691990002, 0691230080
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- on1295111505, on1289817697
- Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Getting Started -- Birding 101 -- Four Keys to Bird Identification -- Using Field Marks to Identify Birds -- Use Merlin to See the Possibilities -- Tips for Beginning Bird Watchers -- Listening to Birds -- Photographing Birds -- Digiscoping -- Attracting Birds to Your Yard -- Birdscaping -- Bird Feeders -- Feeder Placement and Safety -- Bird Food -- Water Sources -- Features of a Good Birdhouse -- Getting Involved -- Citizen Science -- eBird -- Great Backyard Bird Count -- Bird Academy -- Project FeederWatch -- NestWatch -- Celebrate Urban Birds
- Seven Simple Actions to Help Birds -- Guide to Species -- Snow Goose / GEESE SWANS DUCKS -- Canada Goose -- Mute Swan -- Trumpeter Swan -- Wood Duck -- Blue-winged Teal -- Northern Shoveler / GEESE DUCKS SWANS -- Gadwall -- American Wigeon -- Mallard -- American Black Duck -- Northern Pintail -- Canvasback -- Redhead -- Greater Scaup -- Lesser Scaup -- Ruddy Duck -- Northern Bobwhite / QUAIL TURKEY GROUSE -- Wild Turkey -- Ruffed Grouse -- Spruce Grouse -- Ring-necked Pheasant -- Pied-billed Grebe / GREBES -- Red-necked Grebe -- Eared Grebe -- Western Grebe
- Rock Pigeon / PIGEONS DOVES CUCKOOS -- Eurasian Collared-Dove -- Mourning Dove -- Yellow-billed Cuckoo -- Black-billed Cuckoo -- Common Nighthawk / NIGHTJARS -- Chimney Swift / SWIFTS HUMMINGBIRDS -- White-throated Swift -- Ruby-throated Hummingbird -- Sora / RAILS GALLINULES COOTS -- Common Gallinule -- American Coot -- Sandhill Crane / CRANES STILTS -- Black-necked Stilt -- American Golden-Plover / PLOVERS SANDPIPERS -- Killdeer -- Upland Sandpiper -- Long-billed Curlew -- Marbled Godwit -- Ruddy Turnstone -- Sanderling -- Spotted Sandpiper -- Willet
- Franklin's Gull / GULLS TERNS -- Ring-billed Gull -- Herring Gull -- Glaucous Gull -- Great Black-backed Gull -- Caspian Tern -- Black Tern -- Common Tern -- Forster's Tern -- Common Loon / LOONS -- Double-crested Cormorant / CORMORANTS PELICANS -- American White Pelican -- Great Blue Heron / HERONS IBISES -- Great Egret -- Snowy Egret -- Little Blue Heron -- Cattle Egret -- Green Heron -- Black-crowned Night-Heron -- White-faced Ibis -- Black Vulture / VULTURES -- Turkey Vulture -- Osprey / KITES HAWKS EAGLES -- Golden Eagle -- Mississippi Kite -- Northern Harrier -- Cooper's Hawk
- Bald Eagle -- Red-shouldered Hawk -- Swainson's Hawk -- Red-tailed Hawk -- Rough-legged Hawk -- Eastern Screech-Owl / OWLS -- Great Horned Owl -- Snowy Owl -- Burrowing Owl -- Barred Owl -- Great Gray Owl -- Belted Kingfisher / KINGFISHERS -- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker / WOODPECKERS -- Red-headed Woodpecker -- Red-bellied Woodpecker -- Downy Woodpecker -- Ladder-backed Woodpecker -- Hairy Woodpecker -- Pileated Woodpecker -- Northern Flicker -- American Kestrel / FALCONS -- Peregrine Falcon -- Western Wood-Pewee / TYRANT FLYCATCHERS -- Eastern Wood-Pewee -- Least Flycatcher -- Eastern Phoebe