Description |
207 pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 25 cm |
Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
The facts of bird life -- Courting and mating -- Nesting and parenting -- The family lives of individual birds -- Mallard -- Great blue heron -- Diurnal raptors : red-tailed hawk, bald eagle, turkey vulture, and peregrine falcon -- Killdeer -- Herring gull -- Rock pigeon and mourning dove -- Great horned owl -- Ruby-throated, Anna's, and Rufous hummingbirds -- Woodpeckers : downy and hairy woodpeckers, northern flicker -- Phoebes -- Jays and crow : Steller's jay, blue jay, western scrub-jay, and American crow -- Tree swallow and barn swallow -- Chickadees and nuthatches : Carolina and black-capped chickadees, tufted titmouse, and red-breasted and white-breasted nuthatches -- House wren -- Thrushes : bluebirds, american robin -- Northern mockingbird -- Cedar waxwing -- Yellow warbler -- Chipping, song, and white-crowned sparrows, dark-eyed junco -- Summer, scarlet, and western tanagers -- Northern cardinal -- Blackbirds and orioles : red-winged, yellow-headed, and brewer's blackbirds, common grackle, Baltimore and Bullock's orioles, brown-headed cowbird -- Finches : house finch, American goldfinch -- Resources -- Index. |
Subject |
Birds -- Behavior.
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Birds -- Sexual behavior.
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Familial behavior in animals.
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Added Author |
Read, Marie, 1950-
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ISBN |
9781612122298 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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1612122299 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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