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Fifty uncommon birds of the upper Midwest /
Although the many common birds of the Upper Midwest are lovely to hear and see, there is no doubt that the uncommon birds attract more attention. In this gorgeously illustrated companion to their Fifty Common Birds of the Upper Midwest, which provided a new appreciation of the not-so-ordinary beauty...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Bur oak book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata)
- Hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)
- Grater prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus cupido)
- Common loon (Gavia immer)
- American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)
- American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus)
- Black-crowned and yellow-crowned night-herons (Nycticorax nycticorax and Nyctanassa violacea)
- White-faced ibis (Plegadis chihi)
- Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
- Red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus)
- Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni)
- Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)
- Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
- Sora (Porzana carolina)
- Common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
- Whooping crane (Grus americana)
- Upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)
- Wilson's phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)
- Snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus)
- Northern hawk owl (Surnia ulula)
- Great gray owl (Strix nebulosa)
- Northern saw-whet owl (Aegolius acadicus)
- Red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus)
- Acadian flycatcher (Empidonax virescens)
- Northern shrike (Lanius excubitor)
- Philadelphia vireo (Vireo philadelphicus)
- Brown creeper (Certhia americana)
- Winter wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
- Townsend's solitaire (Myadestes townsendi)
- Veery (Catharus fuscescens)
- Wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina)
- Brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum)
- Bohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)
- Blue-winged warbler (Vermivora pinus)
- Northern parula (Parula americana)
- Cerulean warbler (Dendroica cerulea)
- Prothonotary warbler (Protonotaria citrea)
- Louisiana waterthrush (Seiurus motacilla)
- Hooded warbler (Wilsonia citrina)
- Yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens)
- Summer tanager (Piranga rubra)
- Lark sparrow (Chondestes grammacus)
- Henslow's sparrow (Ammodramus henslowii)
- Harris's sparrow (Zonotrichia querula)
- Snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)
- Dickcissel (Spiza americana)
- Eastern and western meadowlarks (Sturnella magna and sturnella neglecta)
- Pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator)
- Red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra)
- Evening grosbeak (Coccothraustes vespertinus)
- Recommended reading
- Index.