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A comprehensive, illustrated guide to the vagrant birds that occur throughout the United States and Canada. This book covers 262 species originating from three very different regions: the Old World, the New World tropics, and the world's oceans.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Howell, Steve N. G. (Autor), Russell, Will (Ornithologist) (Autor), Lewington, Ian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Vögel
Irrgast
Rare birds.
Oiseaux rares > Amerique du Nord > Distribution geographique.
Oiseaux rares > Amerique du Nord > Identification.
Rare animals > North America > Geographical distribution.
Rare animals > North America > Identification.
Rare birds > North America > Geographical distribution.
Rare birds > North America > Identification.
Nordamerika
North America.
Identification.
Field guides.
Nonfiction.
Internet resource.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is a 'rare bird'-- and when and whence?
  • Migration and vagrancy in birds
  • Where do North American vagrants come from?
  • Old World species
  • East Asia
  • Western Eurasia-Africa
  • New World species
  • Mainland
  • Island
  • Pelagic species
  • Temperate Southern Hemisphere
  • Subtropical and Equatorial
  • Topography, molt, and aging
  • Molts and plumages
  • waterfowl
  • Pelagic seabirds
  • bulls and terns
  • Shorebirds
  • Wading birds
  • Raptors and owls
  • Larger landbirds
  • Aerial landbirds
  • Songbirds
  • Species accounts
  • Waterfowl
  • Sungrebes
  • Alcids
  • Pelagic seabirds
  • Petrels
  • Albatrosses
  • Storm-petrels
  • Tropicbirds
  • Frigatebirds
  • Boobies
  • Gulls and terns
  • Shorebirds
  • Plovers
  • Oystercatchers
  • Stilts
  • Sandpipers
  • Pratincoles
  • Thick-knees
  • Wading birds
  • Herons
  • Cranes
  • Rails
  • Storks
  • Jacanas
  • Raptors and owls
  • Larger landbirds
  • Nightjars
  • Pigeons
  • Cuckoos
  • Hoopoes
  • Woodpeckers
  • Corvids
  • Trogons
  • Kingfishers
  • Aerial landbirds
  • Swifts
  • Swallows
  • Songbirds
  • Old World flycatchers
  • Shrikes
  • Accentors
  • Chats and thrushes
  • Old World warblers
  • Wagtails and pipits
  • Larks
  • Old World buntings
  • Finches
  • Tyrant-flycatchers and allies
  • Mimids
  • Thrushes
  • Silkies (Silky-flycatchers)
  • Wrens
  • Vireos
  • Wood-warblers
  • Grassquits
  • Tanagers
  • New World grosbeaks and allies
  • New World orioles
  • Appendix A. Species new to North America, Fall 2011-Summer 2012
  • Appendix B. Species of hypothetical occurrence
  • Appendix C. Birds new to North America, 1950-2011.

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