Texas A&M University Press, 2003. — 269 p. — ISBN-13 978-1585442959 On the morning of January 1, 2000, Mark T. Adams started counting birds. His goal was to find the largest possible number of species in one year in Texas, an undertaking known in birding parlance as a Big Year. By the evening of December 31, he had tied the record of 489 species seen or heard within the state’s...
6th edition — Alaska Northwest Books, 2015. — 368 p. Guide to the Birds of Alaska has been a must-have for Alaska birders for more than thirty years. In the sixth edition, Robert Armstrong provides hundreds of new photographs. Every bird is now illustrated including the casuals and accidentals. This comprehensive guide provides the most current knowledge about the birds in Alaska....
6th edition — Alaska Northwest Books, 2015. — 368 p. Guide to the Birds of Alaska has been a must-have for Alaska birders for more than thirty years. In the sixth edition, Robert Armstrong provides hundreds of new photographs. Every bird is now illustrated including the casuals and accidentals. This comprehensive guide provides the most current knowledge about the birds in Alaska....
Revised Edition. — Boston-New York: Houghton Mifflin company, 1921. — 699 p. The preparation of this book has been facilitated by the good offices of many ornithologists. To Mr. Robert Ridgway and Dr.C. Hart Merriam I am indebted for use of the National Museum and Biological Survey collections, and to Mr. Ridgway for generous help in the study of the museum skins. I am also...
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1905. — 660 p. This work contains a description of the birds of North America north of Mexico, including Greenland and Alaska. The focus of this work is an account of the life history of the species, to which is added information about the geographical distribution of the birds and a brief description of the eggs and the individual species....
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1905. — 700 p. This work contains a description of the birds of North America north of Mexico, including Greenland and Alaska. The focus of this work is an account of the life history of the species, to which is added information about the geographical distribution of the birds and a brief description of the eggs and the individual species....
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1905. — 680 p. This work contains a description of the birds of North America north of Mexico, including Greenland and Alaska. The focus of this work is an account of the life history of the species, to which is added information about the geographical distribution of the birds and a brief description of the eggs and the individual species....
New York, NY: Arno Press, 1974. — 1005 p. and atlas of C colored plates. — ISBN10: 0-4050-5715-6. Reprint of the 1860 edition, published by Lippincott, Philadelphia, illustrated with 100 color lithographs with tissue guards and 1 color lithographic frontispiece (same as Plate 7 in atlas) with tissue guard. The present work is in part a reprint of the General Report on North...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. — 320 p. — (Studies in Avian Biology. No. 44). — ISBN: 0520273109. Each year shorebirds from North and South America migrate thousands of miles to spend the summer in the Arctic. There they feed in shoreline marshes and estuaries along some of the most productive and pristine coasts anywhere. With so much available food they are...
Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 2013. — 430 p. This beautifully illustrated and user-friendly book presents the most up-to-date information available about the natural histories of birds of the Sierra Nevada, the origins of their names, the habitats they prefer, how they communicate and interact with one another, their relative abundance, and...
New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1961. — 600 p. — ISBN: 0-48620-931-8. The all-inclusiveness of Bent's volumes on North American birds has made them classics of our time. Arthur Cleveland Bent was one of America's outstanding ornithologists, and his twenty-volume series on American birds, published under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, forms the most...
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1958. — 549 p. — (United States National Museum Bulletin. №211) This is the twentieth in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the hfe histories of North American birds. The same general plan has been followed, as explained in previous bulletins and need not be repeated here. The nomenclature of the 1931 Check-List...
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968. — 671 p. — Bulletin of the United States National Museum 237. This is part I of the twenty-first and last in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds. Arthur Cleveland Bent started work on this monumental series in 1910, more than a half a century ago. Originally...
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968. — 701 p. — Bulletin of the United States National Museum 238. This is part II of the twenty-first and last in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds. Arthur Cleveland Bent started work on this monumental series in 1910, more than a half a century ago. Originally...
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1968. — 646 p. — ISBN13: 978-0486219783. This is part III of the twenty-first and last in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds. Arthur Cleveland Bent started work on this monumental series in 1910, more than a half a century ago. Originally conceived as a continuation of the...
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940. — 506 p. — (United States National Museum Bulletin. №176). This is the thirteenth in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds. The same general plan has been followed, as explained in previous bulletins, and the same sources of information have been utilized. The...
New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1963. — 294 p. — (United States National Museum Bulletin. №107). The monumental work undertaken and so ably begun by Maj. Charles E. Bendire has remained unfinished, and no additional volumes have been published since his death. In 1910 the author undertook to continue the work and began to gather material for it with the cooperation of...
Second edition. — New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1946. — 237 p. The monumental work undertaken and so ably begun by Maj. Charles E. Bendire has remained unfinished, and no additional volumes have been published since his death. In 1910 the author undertook to continue the work and began to gather material for it with the cooperation of American ornithologists. The following...
Washington, DC: Goverment printing office, 1919. — 246 p. — (US National Museum. Bulletin 107). The monumental work undertaken and so ably begun by Maj. Charles E. Bendire has remained unfinished, and no additional volumes have been published since his death. In 1910 the author undertook to continue the work and began to gather material for it with the cooperation of American...
New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1963. — 555 p. — (United States National Museum Bulletin. №179). — ISBN13: 978-0-486210-90-2. This is the fourteenth in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds. The same general plan has been followed, as explained in previous bulletins, and the same sources of information...
New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1963. — 490 p. — (United States National Museum Bulletin. №162). This is the ninth in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds. The same general plan has been followed, as explained in previous bulletins, and the same sources of information have been utilized. The nomenclature...
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1986. — 468 p. This Bulletin contains a continuation of the work on the life histories of North American birds, begun in Bulletin 107. The same general plan has been followed and the same sources of information have been utilized. Nearly all of those who contributed material for, or helped in preparing, the former volume have rendered similar...
Washington, DC: Goverment printing office, 1921. — 347 p. — (US National Museum. Bulletin 113). This Bulletin contains a continuation of the work on the life histories of North American birds, begun in Bulletin 107. The same general plan has been followed and the same sources of information have been utilized. Nearly all of those who contributed material for, or helped in...
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946. — 495 p. — (United States National Museum Bulletin. №191). This is the fifteenth in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds. The same general plan has been followed, as explained in previous bulletins, and the same sources of information have been utilized. The...
New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1964. — 319 p. Arthur Cleveland Bent was one of America’s outstanding ornithologists, and his twenty-volume series on the life histories of American birds, published under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, forms the most comprehensive, most complete, and most-used source of information in existence. They are all-inclusive studies,...
New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1963. — 524 p. — ISBN: 0486210820. This Dover edition, first published in 1963, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published by the United States Government Printing Office in 1926 as Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 135 .
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948. — 475 p. — (United States National Museum Bulletin. №195). This is the sixteenth in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds. The same general plan has been followed, as explained in previous bulletins, and the same sources of information have been utilized. The...
Washington, DC: Goverment printing office, 1922. — 343 p. — (US National Museum. Bulletin 121). This Bulletin contains a continuation of the work on the life histories of North American birds, begun in Bulletin 107 and continued in Bulletin 113. The same general plan has been followed and the same sources of information have been utilized. Nearly all of those who contributed...
New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1962. — 448 p. — ISBN: 0486209334. These two volumes comprise the best buy on the market for ornithologists, amateur naturalists, conservationists, and birdwatchers throughout North America. Part of a magnificent 20-volume series prepared by Arthur Cleveland Bent for the Smithsonian Institution, they provide the most complete detailed...
New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1962. — 444 p. These two volumes comprise the best buy on the market for ornithologists, amateur naturalists, conservationists, and birdwatchers throughout North America. Part of a magnificent 20-volume series prepared by Arthur Cleveland Bent for the Smithsonian Institution, they provide the most complete detailed coverage of their subject...
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949. — 454 p. — (United States National Museum Bulletin. №196). This is the seventeenth in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds. The same general plan has been followed, as explained in previous bulletins, and the same sources of information have been utilized. The...
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1965. — 411 p. — ISBN13: 978-0486210858. This is the eighteenth in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds. The same general plan has been followed and the same sources of information have been utilized as in previous bulletins, to which the reader is referred. As this and the...
Washington, DC: Goverment printing office, 1923. — 450 p. — (US National Museum. Bulletin 130). The Proceedings the first volume of which was issued in 1878, are intended primarily as a medium for the publication of original, and usually brief, papers based on the collections of the National Museum, presenting newly-acquired facts in zoology, geology, and anthropology,...
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953. — 734 p. — (United States National Museum Bulletin. №203). This is the nineteenth in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds. The paragraphs on distribution for the Colima and Kirtland’s warblers were supplied by Dr. Josselyn Van Tyne with his contributions on...
New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1963. — P. 367-734. — (United States National Museum Bulletin. №203). This is the nineteenth in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds. The same general plan has been followed, as explained in previous bulletins, and the same sources of information have been utilized. The...
Deluxe Edition. — Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1992. — 330 p. — ISBN: 0-253-31160-8. Indiana is proud to publish this lavish book, the first properly designed and professionally illustrated edition of any of Arthur Cleveland Bent's Life Histories of North American Birds . For the first time in this century, one of Bent's books is now available in an appropriate...
Lincoln, NE: Zea E-Books, 2013. — 182 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60962-031-8. The central Platte River Valley region of Nebraska is described ecologically, and defined as encompassing 11 counties and nearly 10,000 square miles, and extending about 120 miles from the western edge of Lincoln County to the eastern edge of Merrick County. At its center is the Platte River, the historic...
Lincoln, NE: Zea E-Books, 2017. — 69 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60962-114-8. The Brinton Museum and Its Birds Profiles of 48 Common Local and Regional Birds: Ring-necked Pheasant, Sharp-tailed Grouse, Great Blue Heron, Turkey Vulture, Osprey, Bald Eagle, Cooper’s Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Sandhill Crane, Killdeer, Eastern Screech-Owl, Great Horned Owl, Broad-tailed...
Lincoln, NE: Zea E-Books, 2013. — 249 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60962-041-7. The Bighorn Mountains consist of a relatively well-isolated north-south mountain range in north-central Wyoming that had their origins during the early Cenozoic era, 50-65 million years ago. The present-day Bighorn range is more than 100 miles in length and has a maximum elevation of 13,167 feet (Cloud Peak),...
New York, NY: D. Appleton & Co, 1907. — 306 p. The Warblers have been described as "our most beautiful, most abundant, and least known birds." The knowledge that at certain seasons our woods, and even the trees of our larger city parks are thronged with an innumerable host of birds, the brilliancy of whose plumage rivals that of many tropical species, comes to the bird student...
Second Edition. — New York, NY: American Ornithologists' Union, 1895. — 372 p. At the Eleventh Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union, held in Cambridge, Mass., November 20-23, 1894, it was voted to publish, as early as practicable, a new edition of the Union's Check-List of North American Birds, to include the numerous additions and nomenclatural changes made in the...
Washington, DC: Bureau of Land Management, 1982. — 637 p. Part I of the Marine Birds of the Southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico is published by the National Coastal Ecosystems Team to provide a synthesis and analysis of information about marine birds in this area. Accounts for 39 species include information on distribution, abundance, food habits, breeding ecology, and...
Washington, DC: Bureau of Land Management, 1982. — 492 p. Part II of the volumes Marine Birds of the Southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico , published by the National Coastal Ecosystems Team, provides a synthesis and analysis of information about marine birds in this area. Accounts for 41 species include information on distribution, abundance, and susceptibility to oil...
Washington, DC: Bureau of Land Management, 1983. — 853 p. Part III of the volumes Marine Birds of the Southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico , published by the National Coastal Ecosystems Team, provides a synthesis and analysis of information about the marine birds in this area. Accounts for 22 species include information on distribution, abundance, and susceptibility to...
Cranburry, NJ: A.S. Barnes & Co., Inc.; London: Thomas Yoseloff, Ltd., 1976. — 156 p. — ISBN: 0-498-06965-6. After years of watching and photographing birds, authors became increasingly aware of a real need for a book of this kind — a reference book done entirely in color and based exclusively on birds of the western United States — to introduce bird study to the growing ranks...
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1960. — 356 p. Arthur Cleveland Bent was one of the great bird students of North America. His Life Histories of North American Birds (1919-1958) is an ornithological masterpiece. Its twenty volumes are wide-ranging in scope, comprehensive in content, and filled with the pulsating enthusiasm of a man whose scientific life work must have been one of...
Washington, DC: Goverment Printing Office, 1906. — 90 p. — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Biological Survey. Bulletin №26. Wild fowl are distributed over the whole world. From time immemorial ducks, geese, and swans have been held in high esteem by mankind, and everywhere they have been eagerly pursued for sport or for food. Passing by the purely esthetic value of...
Washington, DC: Goverment Printing Office, 1915. — 68 p. — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Biological Survey. Bulletin №292. This bulletin presents precise information regarding the ranges of the several species of gulls and their allies, the skuas and jaegers, especially the breeding ranges and migrations, and includes data for use for legislative reference to...
Washington, DC: Goverment Printing Office, 1913. — 70 p. — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Biological Survey. Bulletin №45. The herons have attracted wide attention during late years, particularly because of the earnest efforts that have been made to prevent the utter destruction of the aigrette-bearing members of the family. The horrors necessarily attending the...
Washington, DC: Goverment Printing Office, 1910. — 103 p. — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Biological Survey. Bulletin №35. Shorebirds form a valuable national resource, and it is the plain duty of the present generation to pass on to posterity this asset undiminished in value. Consistent and intelligent legislation in favor of any group of birds must be rounded on...
Washington, DC: Goverment Printing Office, 1904. — 142 p. — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Biological Survey. Bulletin №18. The warblers are birds of wide distribution. They occur in summer in greater or less abundance over nearly the whole of North America except the arid lands of the Southwest and the Barren Grounds of the far North. Though of small size they are...
Fifth Edition. — Philadelphia, PA: D. McKay, 1900. — 518 p. The text of the present edition consists of the characteristic habits of North American birds, with particular reference to their nesting habits and eggs. Many of these will be found to be almost complete life histories of the species. The geographical limits of the North American avifauna at the present time includes...
Liveright, 2022. — 432 p. The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation’s founding through inconceivable...
Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1984. — 356 p. — ISBN13: 978-0813802060. This book is combination of increased reporting of Iowa birds, the critical examination of all old records, and the new standardized list of North American birds made this an appropriate time to prepare a new book on the birds of Iowa. This volume is not intended to be a guide to bird...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — 489 p. — ISBN: 978-0-544-01844-0. A visually stunning, comprehensive resource on North America’s birds of prey Always a popular group of birds, raptors symbolize freedom and fierceness, and in Pete Dunne’s definitive guide, these traits are portrayed in hundreds of stunning color photographs showing raptors up close, in flight, and in...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0544018440. A visually stunning, comprehensive resource on North America's birds of prey. Always a popular group of birds, raptors symbolize freedom and fierceness, and in Pete Dunne's definitive guide, these traits are portrayed in hundreds of stunning color photographs showing raptors up close, in flight, and in...
Princeton University Press, 2024. — 304 p. More than half a century has passed since the publication of The Shorebirds of North America , Peter Matthiessen’s masterful natural history of what is arguably the world’s most amazing and specialized bird group. In the intervening decades, our knowledge about these birds has grown significantly, as have the threats to their...
Stackpole Books, 2000. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0811726993. Birds of Field and Shore describes how 42 common grassland and shoreline birds nest, mate, and rear their broods in spring; how they feed in summer; whether, how, and where they migrate in fall; and how they survive in winter. This seasonal approach, together with an emphasis on ecological niches, distinguishes Eastman's...
Fith Edition. — Helena, MT: Montana Natural Heritage Program, 1996. — 148 p. This book is dedicated to Montana's volunteer birdwatchers, whose passion for birding and careful record keeping allow us to better understand our bird populations. Your efforts are greatly appreciated! Volunteer birdwatchers are used extensively for collecting bird records because of their skill and the...
Sixth Edition. — Helena, MT: Montana Natural Heritage Program, 2003. — 160 p. This edition of P.D. Skaar's Skaar's Montana Bird Distribution presents the most current information available on the distribution of birds in Montana, representing hundreds of thousands of observations reported by thousands of individuals across the state.
Seventh Edition. — Helena, MT: Montana Natural Heritage Program, 2012. — 228 p. This edition of P.D. Skaar's Skaar's Montana Bird Distribution presents the most current information available on the distribution of birds in Montana, representing hundreds of thousands of observations reported by thousands of individuals across the state.
Washington, DC: US Fish and Wildlife Service, 1979. — 212 p. This report is one of several recounting the results of surveys of nesting colonies of egrets, herons, gulls, terns, allies in coastal areas along portions of the U.S. Atlantic, Lakes, and the northern Gulf of Mexico. Publication of the results will aid resource managers. Moreover, the hope is that as citizens learn more...
Norwood, MA: Berwick and Smith Company, 1928. — 481 p. Birds may be ranked among the noblest forms of life. Experience has shown that without special protection at the hands of man many species are likely to become extinct. Some of those that are hunted as game now need special care. Licenses to hunt certain birds within the borders of the Commonwealth are issued to citizens...
Norwood, MA: Berwick and Smith Company, 1927. — 461 p. Birds may be ranked among the noblest forms of life. Experience has shown that without special protection at the hands of man many species are likely to become extinct. Some of those that are hunted as game now need special care. Licenses to hunt certain birds within the borders of the Commonwealth are issued to citizens...
Norwood, MA: Berwick and Smith Company, 1929. — 466 p. Birds may be ranked among the noblest forms of life. Experience has shown that without special protection at the hands of man many species are likely to become extinct. Some of those that are hunted as game now need special care. Licenses to hunt certain birds within the borders of the Commonwealth are issued to citizens...
Timber Press, 2024. — 544 p. Birds of Arizona and New Mexico is a comprehensive field guide to commonly found birds in the American Southwest. Authors Melissa Fratello and Steven Prager speak to a new generation of birders, offering a unique perspective and approach to birding that prioritizes accessibility and inclusion. They also cover the region’s unique issues, such as...
Foreword by Robert McCracken Peck. — Dover Publications, 2019. — 112 p. In 1910 and 1914, a two-volume study of New York's native birds was issued as part of the State Museum's annual report. A vast catalog of hundreds of species, the survey was illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874–1927), a rising star in scientific bird studies. Fuertes was highly influenced by John...
Heyday, 2024. — 232 p. With charm and delight, The Birds in the Oaks introduces us to the birds who burrow, forage, and soar among California's keystone trees. The mighty oak hosts a multitude of avian denizens—from canopy hoppers to ground nesters to short-billed surface pluckers—who rely on the trees' well-stocked pantry of acorns, insects, and flowers for sustenance and...
Checkmark Books, 1986. — 170 p. — ISBN13: 978-0816014224. The most comprehensive work yet to be published on the vast array of wild ducks indigenous to North America, and one of the most visually striking books of its kind, illustrated with a dimension of elegance found in very few nature books. Over 250 illustrations in color and black-and-white. An internationally recognized...
Heyday, 2025. — 80 p. — ISBN-13 978-1597146739 From Sacramento to Stockton, the Delta gathers the waters of inner California to create a lush estuary and a haven for birds. In Birds of the California Delta, lifelong birder and Delta local Aaron N. K. Haiman showcases the avian diversity found all around the shoals and sloughs where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers meet....
Heyday, 2021. — 80 p. This charming full-color field guide introduces us to fifteen waterbirds easily found in the urban wildlife refuge of Lake Merritt. In his introduction, author-illustrator Alex Harris includes a history of the lake, providing context for a place that is alluring to humans and shorebirds alike. Each species profile of the lake’s feathered residents is...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2016. — 394 p. — ISBN10: 148224022X; ISBN13: 978-1482240221 — (Studies in Avian Biology. Book 48) Shortlisted for the 2018 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards in the edited book category. Lesser Prairie-Chickens have experienced substantial declines in terms of population and the extent of area that they occupy. While they are an elusive species, making it...
Helm, 2024. — 220 p. Stretching from temperate North America through the central highlands and vast Everglades wetlands of the peninsula and beyond to its Caribbean Keys, Florida is a great place to go birding at any time of the year. Roseate Spoonbills and Mangrove Cuckoo add a tropical flavour to its rich avifauna; woodland and scrub specialities include Red-cockaded...
Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1927. — 354 p. This book is intended as a guide to the study of birds, but, by its nature it is far from being as helpful as a hving guide would be. If the student can find among his acquaintance some one who can help solve his puzzles or direct him to the favorite haunts of this or that species, he will make much greater progress. At the...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 507 p. Petrels, albatrosses, and storm-petrels are among the most beautiful yet least known of all the world's birds, living their lives at sea far from the sight of most people. Largely colored in shades of gray, black, and white, these enigmatic and fast-flying seabirds can be hard to differentiate, particularly from a moving boat. Useful...
New York: The Amateur Sportsman Co, 1910. — 284 p. This is the first book written for American readers on the practical conservation of game. It deals with the methods of propagation and preservation which are essential to make game abundant and to keep it plentiful in places where field sports are permitted. It is entirely different in plan and purpose from my earlier books....
University Of Iowa Press, 1996. — 504 p. The Iowa Breeding Bird Atlas—the first comprehensive statewide survey of Iowa's breeding birds—provides a detailed record of the composition and distribution of the avifauna of the Hawkeye State. The atlas documents the presence of 199 species, 158 of which were confirmed breeding. This landmark volume will alert Iowans to the limited...
Front Royal, VA: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 1997. — 314 p. — ISBN13: 9781560987086. Swift and iridescent, hummingbirds are found only in the New World, and encompass an amazing variety of specializations. No other family of birds can lay claim to so many superlatives, including smallest size, most rapid wingbeat, and most specialized plumages. While many species...
University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries, 2016. — 258 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60962-106-3. The 21 species of sea ducks are one of the larger subgroups (Tribe Mergini) of the waterfowl family Anatidae, and the 16 species (one historically extinct) that are native to North America represent the largest number to be found on any continent. This book is an effort to summarize succinctly...
Lincoln, NE: Zea E-Books, 2015. — 54 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60962-078-3. Central Nebraska's Platte River and Rainwater Basin are primary stops in the migration patterns of numerous North American waterfowl, including sandhill and whooping cranes, sandpipers, geese, ducks, gulls, and shorebirds of many types. Upland species also abound there as well. The region's most eminent...
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries, 2009. — 575 p. Notwithstanding the great latitudinal spread and the equally wide altitudinal variations that occur in the region, the Rocky Mountains contain surprisingly uniform bird life. A bird-watcher in Banff or Jasper national parks in Alberta will encounter the vast majority of the same breeding species in the...
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries, 2008. — 327 p. Considering the great nostalgic attraction of such birds as the common loon for people who have lived at least part of their lives around the lakes of Canada and the northern United States, and given the endearing visual appeal of species like puffins and auklets, it is rather surprising that there are so few...
Lincoln, NE: Zea E-Books, 2015. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60962-065-3. Based on an analysis of 47 years (1967–2014) of Audubon Christmas Bird Counts (CBC), evidence for population changes and shifts in early winter (late December) ranges of nearly 150 species of birds in the Great Plains states is summarized, a region defined as including the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma,...
University of Nebraska Press, 1973. — 663 p. — ISBN 0-8032-0810-3. Discusses the characteristics of North American grouse and quail and presents detailed descriptions and illustrations of a variety of species
Washington-London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. — 444 p. I have tried to present an adequate if far from exhaustive survey of the general biology, ecology, and behavior of all the included species, written so as to be understandable to the interested layman as well as useful to the biologist who might be looking for relevant literature citations or trying to deal with a...
Washington-London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. — 323 p. This book had its genesis over lunch in the Smithsonian Institution during November 1985, when Ted Rivinus proposed to me that I write a book for the Smithsonian Institution Press to follow up my earlier one on the hummingbirds of North America. Specifically he suggested that a book on owls might make an attractive...
Lincoln, NE: Zea E-Books, 2011. — 284 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60962-017-2. “The Rocky Mountain region has fascinated me ever since I traveled to Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks as a teenager, and saw for the first time such wonderful birds as ospreys, American dippers, and Lewis’s woodpeckers.” This book is in part based on the author’s earlier Birds of the Rocky Mountains...
Bison Books, 2011. — 184 p. — ISBN13: 978-0803234963. Driving west from Lincoln to Grand Island, Nebraska, Paul A. Johnsgard remarks, is like driving backward in time. “I suspect,” he says, “that the migrating cranes of a pre–ice age period some ten million years ago would fully understand every nuance of the crane conversation going on today along the Platte.” Johnsgard has...
Front Royal, VA: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 1997. — 314 p. ISBN13: 9781560987086. Swift and iridescent, hummingbirds are found only in the New World, and encompass an amazing variety of specializations. No other family of birds can lay claim to so many superlatives, including smallest size, most rapid wingbeat, and most specialized plumages. While many species can...
Lincoln, NE: Zea E-Books, 2016. — 160 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60962-095-0. The eight currently recognized species of North American geese are part of a familiar group of birds collectively called waterfowl, all of which are smaller than swans and generally larger than ducks. They include the most popular of our aquatic gamebirds, with several million shot each year by sport hunters....
Lincoln, NE: Zea E-Books, 2016. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60962-088-2. The ten currently recognized species of grouse in North America have played an important role in America’s history, from the famous but ill-fated heath hen, a primary source of meat for the earliest New England immigrants, to the ruffed grouse, currently one of the most abundant and soughtafter upland game...
Lincoln, NE: Zea E-Books, 2017. — 229 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60962-109-4. This volume, the fourth in a series of books that collectively update and expand P. A. Johnsgard’s 1975 The Waterfowl of North America , summarizes research findings on this economically and ecologically important group of waterfowl. The volume includes the mostly tropical perching duck tribe Cairinini, of...
Lincoln, NE: Zea E-Books, 2017. — 132 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60962-117-9. This book documents the biology of six species of New World quails that are native to North America north of Mexico (mountain, scaled, Gambel’s, California, and Montezuma quails, and the northern bobwhite), three introduced Old World partridges (chukar, Himalayan snowcock, and gray partridge), and the...
Lincoln, NE: Zea E-Books, 2017. — 184 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60962-110-0. Although the 12 species representing three waterfowl tribes described in this volume are not closely related, they fortuitously provide an instructive example of adaptive evolutionary radiation within the much larger waterfowl lineage (the family Anatidae), especially as to their divergent morphologies, life...
Revised Edition. — Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries, 2010. — 672 p. “We cannot expect to learn from or communicate directly with waterfowl; they speak separate languages, hear different voices, know other sensory worlds. They transcend our own perceptions, make mockery of our national boundaries, ignore our flyway concepts. They have their own innate maps,...
Lincoln, NE: Zea E-Books, 2012. — 276 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60962-019-6. This 100,000-word monograph summarizes the distribution, abundance and breeding biology of the 183 species of wetland-adapted birds reliably reported from South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas through 2011. These include 91 species known to breed or have historically bred in the region, 51 species that migrate...
Avid Reader Press, 2024. — 400 p. The most famous name in the bird world was John James Audubon, who painted spectacular portraits of birds. But although his images were beautiful, creating great art was not his main goal. Instead, he aimed to illustrate (and write about) as many different species as possible, obsessed with trying to outdo his rival, Alexander Wilson. George...
Falcon Guides, 2023. — 324 p. Take this book along as you visit treeless prairies in Pawnee National Grassland; cottonwood stream bottoms along the major rivers that rise in Colorado (North and South Platte, Republican, Arkansas, Rio Grande, San Juan, Colorado, and Yampa/Green); pinyon-clad mesas of southeastern and western Colorado; chasms, mesas, and mountains in four...
Falcon Guides, 2023. — 312 p. — ISBN-13 978-1493067367 Birding Colorado is a guide to the best bird watching sites in Colorado, from national parks and wildlife refuges to marshes, mountains and canyons. Organized by region, each site description informs readers on habitats, visiting information, and birds you’ll encounter. What sets this book apart is the extra information on...
Seventh Printing. — Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Co., 1953. — 499 p. The existing literature on the identification of waterfowl describes mainly their spring plumages. This is of little avail to the sportsman who is afield mainly in the fall, and it hardly suffices for the ornithologist, who is afield at all seasons. Early fall plumages in many ducks are confusingly similar, vary...
Heyday, 2024. — 64 p. Updated for the first time in twenty years with completely redrawn birds and more, the classic and remarkably easy-to-use guide for identifying birds in the Sierra Nevada. John Muir Laws began his lifelong project of connecting people to the natural world when he noticed that novice birders often distinguish birds by color and size rather than by family,...
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. — 1048 p. — ISBN: 0-6910-9297-4. The quintessential A-Z guide, this is a book that anyone interested in birds will want to have close at hand. First published more than twenty years ago, this highly respected reference volume has been fully revised and updated. It captures the fundamental details as well as the immense...
Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie museum of Natural History, 1988. — 56 p. This booklet is designed to help the bird-watcher learn when and where to expect to see the 368 species of birds which the author recognizes as having been recorded in Western Pennsylvania and adjacent regions through mid-1985. It represents a revision and updating of Dr. Kenneth C. Parkes’s A Field List of Birds of...
Twin Lights Publishers, 2008. — 160 p. — ISBN: 978-1-885435-98-9. The variety of habitats and seasonal influences throughout New England are conducive to over 700 species of birds during different times of the year. As experienced bird-watchers and masterful bird photographers, Jim Roetzel and Jim Zipp have traveled extensively across the New England region sighting the native...
Texas A&M University Press, 2011. — 224 p. — ISBN-13 978-1603444262 From pine forest to desert scrub, from alpine meadow to riparian wetland, Albuquerque and its surrounding area in New Mexico offer an appealing variety of wildlife habitat. Birders are likely to see more than two hundred species during a typical year of bird-watching. Now, two experienced birders, Judith...
Natural Heritage, 1985. — 216 p. — ISBN13: 978-0920469026. Birds of the Cottage Country is a virtual storybook account of the author’s personalized observations throughout Ontario’s cottage playground. It clearly illustrates the downright fun, vast beauty, and consuming involvement of bird watching – even for the most skeptical of laymen. Bill Mansell’s daily experiences at...
West Newton, Mass.: C.J. Maynard & Co, 1896. — 879 p. The first edition of the Birds of Eastern North America has been exhausted for some time, but owing to circumstances, I have not been enabled to prepare a second edition, containing the necessary revisions and additional matter, until the present time. Much of the original text has been preserved intact, but considerable...
Bureau of Land Management, 1978. — 251 p. This report summarizes information obtained during a raptor nest survey and production study I conducted in southern Wyoming during 1978, for the Bureau of Land Management. Primarily, the study was designed to provide baseline production information on status uncertain and sensitive species nesting on BLM lands within the area. Raptor...
New Jersey, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969. — 340 p. — ISBN13: 978-0136237693. Compete series of 300 full-color paintings of birds, breathtaking renditions which have been widely acclaimed by art critics. In addition the their striking beauty, the portraits give details of plumage and marking which are not captured by even the most accurate cameras. Enhanced by clear, lucid, and...
Falcon Guides, 2019. — 384 p. — ISBN 978-1493033881. Birdwatching is for everyone. No other outdoor pursuit yields so much knowledge of nature's ways with so little effort--if one knows what to look for. Birding New England opens the world of birding to the novice and expert in this complete guide to getting the most out of birding in New England. Birding New England includes a...
Pineapple Press, 2001. — 311 p. — ISBN13: 978-1561641963. This book is for those who enjoy that precarious and ever-changing zone where the sea meets the land and want to understand the birds that frequent this special habitat in Florida and the islands to the south. Author David Nellis reveals the birds found along the beaches, among the mangroves, even up the rocky Caribbean...
Bright Leaf, 2020. — 341 p. The paths of different birds look like double helixes, flowing strands of hair, and migrating serpents, and they beckon with calls that have definite meanings. These mysterious creatures inspire growing numbers of birders in their passionate pursuit of new species, and writer John R. Nelson is no exception. In Flight Calls, he takes readers on...
University Of Iowa Press, 2006. - 126 Pages. No bird is common, if we use common to mean ordinary. But birds that are seen more commonly than others can seem less noteworthy than species that are rarely glimpsed. In this gathering of essays and illustrations celebrating fifty of the most common birds of the Upper Midwest, illustrator Dana Gardner and writer Nancy Overcott...
University Of Iowa Press, 2007. — 132 p. No bird is common, if we use “common” to mean ordinary. But birds that are seen more commonly than others can seem less noteworthy than species that are rarely glimpsed. In this gathering of essays and illustrations celebrating fifty of the most common birds of the Upper Midwest, illustrator Dana Gardner and writer Nancy Overcott...
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1962. — 567 p. — ISBN13: 978-0300008142. Describes the physical features, field identification, habitat, distribution, migration, reproduction, and habits of American species and subspecies north of Mexico.
University Press of Kentucky, 1996. — 372 p. Ten years in the making, The Kentucky Breeding Bird Atlas presents the results of a seven-year survey of the birds that nest in the Bluegrass State, providing photographs of each species. This work reports on the distribution and abundance of all bird species and describes such recent phenomena as the invasions of the Blue Grosbeak...
University of Minnesota Press, 2021. — 256 p. — ISBN-13 9781517909406. — ISBN-10 1517909406. Even those who know the loon’s call might not recognize it as a tremolo, yodel, or wail, and may not understand what each call means, how it’s made, and why. And those who marvel at the loon’s diving prowess might wonder why this bird has such skill, or where loons go when they must...
University of California Press, 2003. - 374 p. ISBN13: 978-0520235939. The Salton Sea, California’s largest inland lake, supports a spectacular bird population that is among the most concentrated and most diverse in the world. Sadly, this crucial stopover along the Pacific Flyway for migratory and wintering shorebirds, landbirds, and waterfowl is dangerously close to collapse...
New York, NY: The University Society Inc., 1923. — 378 p. The actual and urgent need for this book is apparent to the large and steadily increasing number of persons who are intelligently interested in American ornithology. This need is due to the fact that in all the literature of that subject there is no single work which presents a complete review of what is known today about...
New York, NY: The University Society Inc., 1923. — 364 p. The actual and urgent need for this book is apparent to the large and steadily increasing number of persons who are intelligently interested in American ornithology. This need is due to the fact that in all the literature of that subject there is no single work which presents a complete review of what is known today about...
New York, NY: The University Society Inc., 1923. — 379 p. The actual and urgent need for this book is apparent to the large and steadily increasing number of persons who are intelligently interested in American ornithology. This need is due to the fact that in all the literature of that subject there is no single work which presents a complete review of what is known today about...
Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton printing company, 1919. — 459 p.
The present volume, Birds of North Carolina, is a joint publication of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey, the State Audubon Society of North Carolina, and the State Museum. Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, former Secretary of the North Carolina Audubon Society, was asked to take the supervision of the work, and,...
University of California Press, 2007. — 346 p. Most owls are almost perfectly adapted to life in the dark. Their vaguely humanoid faces reflect the spectacular evolution of their hearing and vision, which has made flight, romance, and predation possible in the near absence of light. This accessible guide, full of intriguing anecdotes, covers all 19 species of owls occurring in...
New York, NY: Galahad Books, 1979. — 144 p. — ISBN: 0-88365-426-1. Here is a book to savor and to return to again and again as a record of America's master photographer at work in capturing characteristic portraits of the continent's rich but elusive avifauna. Eliot Porter's work, as artist and writer, reveals the commitment of a man who recognizes the primacy of wild lands and...
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1980. — 408 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-8078-1399-0. Few regions in North America have a richer bird life than the Carolinas. North and South Carolina offer great diversity of land form, climate, and vegetation, resulting in habitat suitable for a remarkable diversity of birds. The two states stretch from the high mountain forests of...
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University, 2002. — 427 p. — ISBN 978-0-80-1870-75-0. Birds of the Mid-Atlantic Region and Where to Find Them is the only comprehensive field guide to bird life in the area that also directs readers to public sites where each species can be found. Ornithologist John H. Rappole provides extensive information about every species: description,...
College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. — 329 p. — ISBN 0-89-09-6957-4. The American Southwest is famous for its dramatic vistas and the exotic animals and plants that inhabit the region. Along with Gila monsters, scorpions, and mountain goats, majestic birds bring their own unique beauty to the area. California condors fight their way back from extinction in...
UBC Press, 2018. — 812 р. — ISBN: 0774860243. Nunavut is a land of islands, encompassing some of the most remote places on Earth. It is also home to some of the world's most fascinating bird species. Birds of Nunavut is the first complete survey of every species known to occur in the territory. Cowritten by a team of eighteen experts, it documents 295 species of birds (of which...
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1995. — 46 p. — ISBN: 0-88854-413-8. We studied breeding-bird populations between 1985 and 1992 in four different ages of managed jack pine stands, and three different ages of jack pines mixed with birch and aspen, in the Gogama area of central Ontario. We used variable-strip transect counts of at least 1 km in length to gather information on...
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. — 444 p. — ISBN13: 9780292771208. Distils data from many sources to provide an authoritative guide to the behaviour of Texas birds Whether it's the sudden, plunging dives of Brown Pelicans, the singing and aerial displays of Northern Mockingbirds, or the communal nesting of Purple Martins, innate and learned behaviours are some of the...
Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1985. — 604 p. — ISBN: 978-0874170801. — Great Basin Natural History Series. This book is the most comprehensive ever published on the diverse bird life of the Great Basin. In a concise and readable style, Fred Ryser discusses the history, physiology, behavior, ecology, and distribution of nearly four hundred species, including information on...
University Of Iowa Press, 2014. — 192 p. The translation and explanation of genus and species names yield markers to help us identify birds in the field as well as remember distinctive traits. Having a basic understanding of the scientific and common names of birds reveals insights into their color, behavior, habitat, or geography. Knowing that Cyanocitta means “blue chatterer”...
New York: Twenty-First Century Books, 1997. — 108 p. Discusses why certain bird species are endangered and examines such examples as the snail kite, piping plover, and whooping crane Why are birds in trouble? The fate of a picky eater: the snail kite. Bird of the fire: the Kirtland's warbler. Timber-embattled bird: the red-cockaded woodpecker. Beachgoers versus birds: the piping...
Lincoln, NE: Zea E-Books, 2012. — 88 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60962-025-7. The first two centuries of bird study in Kansas essentially can be split into 50 year intervals since Zebulon Pike’s 1810 publication, an account of his explorations. The first 50 years were records of explorers crossing Kansas collecting bird specimens; many were Army doctors. The second half of the 19th...
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996. - 296 p. ISBN13: 978-0877455684. Now available in paperback with a new foreword by Marcia Myers Bonta, Birds of an Iowa Dooryard contains Althea Sherman's often caustic, always careful studies of the phoebes, wrens, cuckoos, rails, catbirds, owls, flickers, and many other species that inhabited her Acre of Birds in northern Iowa. Birds...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 304 p. — ISBN13 9780691217833. — ISBN10 0691217831. Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park is the oldest and arguably the most famous national park in North America, attracting millions of visitors each year. While many come to the park for its recreational activities, the wildlife of Yellowstone is just as alluring. This book brings...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 304 p. — ISBN13 9780691217833. — ISBN10 0691217831. Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park is the oldest and arguably the most famous national park in North America, attracting millions of visitors each year. While many come to the park for its recreational activities, the wildlife of Yellowstone is just as alluring. This book brings...
Toronto: Royal Ontario museum, 1947. — 62 p. This handbook has been prepared as an introduction to the study of the hawks and owls of Ontario. Sections are devoted to some general consideration of the biology of these birds, including their place, role and interrelationships in nature, and to their systematic classification; a list is given of all species and subspecies that...
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. — 432 p. — ISBN: 978-0-1265-4005-5. As the largest flying bird of North America, and one of the most endangered, the California Condor has been a source of tremendous interest and awe. This book offers up-to-date information on both the biology and conservation of the condor, as analyzed by the two most knowledgeable field...
Voyageur Press, 1991. — 225 p. — ISBN: 0-89658-131-4. Discusses the biology and conservation of the thirty-four species of diurnal raptors found in North America, and looks at their everyday behavior and the threats to their continued existence.
Natural Heritage, 1985. — 552 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9204-7438-9. This extensive and long overdue work of reference covers all of the bird species, more than 400 of which have been recorded in the province of Ontario. "Birds of Ontario" contains an identification and description of all species, with 344 outstanding colour plates. Anyone with even a casual interest in birds will find...
New York, NY: Bonanza Books, 1955. — 228 p. In the course of history the Birds of Prey have been subjected to strange extremes of treatment at human hands. They have served as symbols of valor and power on many national shields; in the days of chivalry ownership of certain of these birds was reserved to the nobility. More recently, however, they have been aggressively destroyed...
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1967. — 230 p. This book is a monograph of the Shorebirds of North America, containing the most up-to-date scientific material for the serious student, as well as an essay by Peter Alatthiessen describing the habits and history of these birds. It is illustrated by thirty-two plates from paintings by Robert Verity Clem. The title, The Shorebirds...
Washington, D.C.: International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies in cooperation with the Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1994. — 223 p. — ISBN13: 978-0935868753. This book is another giant step forward in the management of a small, diverse, yet important group of species that historically received little emphasis as a result of being...
2nd Edition. — Adventure Publications, 2023. — 416 p. Identify Alaska birds with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information. Make bird-watching in Alaska even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela’s famous bird guide, field identification is simple and informative. There’s no need to look through dozens of photos of...
Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, 1989. — 432 p. Kansas was one of the first states west of the Mississippi River to have a book devoted entirely to the birds located within its boundaries. This event came about when Colonel N. S. Goss wrote his first Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas in 1883, updating it in 1886 with a Revised Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas. The latter...
Logan: Utah State University Press, 1997. - 183 p. ISBN13: 978-0874212198. The first significant published record of bird study in Zion was Clifford C. Presnall's checklist in 1935, "The Birds of Zion National Park" (Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters). Presnall utilized field notes of many early Zion naturalists such as Vasco M. Tanner, Angus M. Woodbury, Gordon Y....
Texas A&M University Press, 2004. — 207 p. — ISBN-13 978-1585442867 At the end of the twentieth century roughly 265 million people visited the 374 sites in the American National Park System. These places, designated and protected because of their significance to our nation’s historical and natural heritage, contain some of the most beautiful landscapes in the United...
University of California Press, 1983. — 304 p. - ISBN-13 978-0520047549 This book is intended for two audiences: (1) The interested layman can learn which species of birds occur in the Coachella Valley and adjacent Santa Rosa Mountains. The information available includes the types of habitats in which each species can be found, as well as the time of year the birds are present....
University of New Mexico Press, 2015. — 256 p. — ISBN-13 978-0826337672 Designed to help birders and banders identify, age, and sex all seventeen species of hummingbirds found in North America, this is the only identification guide devoted entirely to hummingbirds that includes up-close, easy-to-use illustrations. It also provides information on the eight species that have been...
University Press of Kentucky, 2023. — 249 p. From the most unforgiving of concrete jungles to the pastoral reaches of the countryside, birds are among the most plentiful and plainly visible animals on the planet. For millions of years, they have survived in every known biome, carving out ecological niches for themselves and their offspring and often thriving. But this...
Indiana University Press, 2018. — 256 p. — ISBN: 9780253035318. From the birds who wake us in the morning with their cheerful chorus to those who flock to our feeders and brighten a gloomy winter day, birds fascinate us with their lively and interesting behavior and provide essential services from controlling pest populations to pollinating crops. And yet for all the benefits...
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