The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior
“Once in a great while, a natural history book changes the way people look at the world. In 1838, John ames Audubon's Birds of America was one...In 1934, Roger Tory Peterson produced Field Guide to the Birds...Now comes The Sibley Guide to Birds.”
Thus did The New York Times, in 1999, greet David Allen Sibley's monumental book, which has quickly been established nationwide as the peerless, standard bird identification guide.
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior is the new landmark book from David Allen Sibley. Designed to enhance the birding experience and to enrich the popular study of North American birds, the book combines more than 795 of his full-color illustrations with authoritative text by 48 expert birders and biologists. In this new guide Sibley takes us beyond identification, to show us how birds live and what they do.
Introductory essays outline the principles of avian evolution, life cycle, body structure, flight dynamics, and more. The 80 family-by-family chapters describe the amazing range of behavior dictated by birds' biology and environment. Among the subjects covered and illustrated are:
--molts and plumages
--food and foraging
--vocalizations and displays
--courtship and breeding
--rearing of young
--migration and movements
--nests and eggs
Accessibly written, superbly designed and organized, and brilliantly illustrated, The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior is an indispensable source of information on the avian life around us.
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tunistically , tracking favorable conditions . complete prebasic molt , which
includes Whistling - ducks and Mottled Ducks the simultaneous loss of all wing
Some Northern Pintails from Alaska and the Northwest Territories move
southeastward across the Pacific Flyway to Texas , which is in the Central Flyway
. Tundra Swans commonly move from Alaska to the Atlantic coast . Some species
Other Arctic species , such as the Snow Goose and some races of the Canada
Goose , move long distances overland to coastal wetlands of the Gulf of Mexico ,
and Northern Pintails move into Mexico or Central America . Inland freshwater ...
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LibraryThing ReviewUser Review - SeriousGrace - LibraryThing
I have to say this right off the bat, because I think it is funny and potentially points to my birding ignorance. At the end of this Sibley guide there is a "Species Checklist" which makes a lot of ... Read full review
LibraryThing ReviewUser Review - justagirlwithabook - LibraryThing
Such a great guide to birds! My father is a teacher of biology and ornithology (and is often referred to as 'the bird man'). As an expert on birds and the birding world, he has a handful of books that are his 'go-to' books for birding information, and Sibley is always a go-to. Read full review
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