Birds of North America : the complete guide to birding--with full-color photographs, updated range maps, and authoritative notes on voice, behavior, habitat, nesting, and conservation status / National Audubon Society.

National Audubon Society, (author.). Cirigliano, Jim, 1981- (editor.).

Summary:

"A completely new and definitive guide to the birds of North America -- the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date work of its kind"-- Page [4] of cover.

Record details

ISBN: 0525655670
ISBN: 9780525655671
Physical Description: 907 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Edition: First edition
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Statement of responsibility from Acknowledgments page.

Formatted Contents Note:

National Audubon Society birds of North America. Introduction -- Identification of birds -- Birds at home -- Conservation -- Bird biology topics -- The birds of North America. Waterfowl -- Gallinaceous birds -- Flamingos -- Grebes -- Pigeons and doves -- Cuckoos and allies -- Goatsuckers -- Swifts and hummingbirds -- Cranes and allies -- Shorebirds -- Tropicbirds -- Loons -- Tubenoses -- Storks -- Boobies, cormorants, darters, frigatebirds, and gannets -- Large waterbirds -- New world vultures -- Diurnal raptors -- Owls -- Trogons and quetzals -- Kingfishers -- Woodpeckers and relatives -- Falcons and caracaras -- Parrots and cockatoos -- Passerines -- Bird families.