All about birds Southwest

✍ Scribed by Cornell University. Laboratory of Ornithology,

• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 285
• Series: The Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Regional field-guide series
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Table of Contents
Introduction
Getting Started
Birding 101
Four Keys to Bird Identifi˚cation
Using Field Marks to Identify Birds
Use Merlin to See the Possibilities
Tips for Beginning Bird Watchers
Listening to Birds
Photographing Birds
Digiscoping
Attracting Birds to Your Yard
Birdscaping
Bird Feeders
Feeder Placement & Safety
Bird Food
Water Sources
Features of a Good Birdhouse
Getting Involved
Citizen Science
eBird
Great Backyard Bird Count
Bird Academy
Project FeederWatch
NestWatch
Celebrate Urban Birds
Seven Simple Actions to Help Birds
Guide to Species
Snow Goose / GEESE • DUCKS
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Mexican Duck
Northern Pintail
Canvasback
Redhead
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Scaled Quail / QUAIL • TURKEY • GROUSE
California Quail
Gambel’s Quail
Wild Turkey
Greater Sage-Grouse
Dusky Grouse
Ring-necked Pheasant
Pied-billed Grebe / GREBES
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Rock Pigeon / PIGEONS • DOVES • CUCKOOS
Band-tailed Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Inca Dove
Common Ground Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Lesser Nighthawk / NIGHTJARS
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift / SWIFTS • HUMMINGBIRDS
White-throated Swift
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Costa’s Hummingbird
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Sora / RAILS • GALLINULES • COOTS
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Sandhill Crane / CRANES • STILTS
Black-necked Stilt
Killdeer / PLOVERS • SANDPIPERS
Long-billed Curlew
Western Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Willet
Franklin’s Gull / GULLS • TERNS
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Forster’s Tern
Neotropic Cormorant / CORMORANTS • PELICANS
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Great Blue Heron / HERONS • IBISES
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White-faced Ibis
Black Vulture / VULTURES
Turkey Vulture
Osprey / KITES • HAWKS • EAGLES
Golden Eagle
Mississippi Kite
Northern Harrier
Cooper’s Hawk
Bald Eagle
Harris’s Hawk
Swainson’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Western Screech-Owl / OWLS
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Belted Kingfisher / KINGFISHERS
Red-naped Sapsucker / WOODPECKERS
Red-headed Woodpecker
Acorn Woodpecker
Gila Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Gilded Flicker
Crested Caracara / FALCONS
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Western Wood-Pewee / TYRANT FLYCATCHERS
Least Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Warbling Vireo / VIREOS
Loggerhead Shrike / SHRIKES
Northern Shrike
Canada Jay / JAYS • MAGPIES • CROWS
Pinyon Jay
Steller’s Jay
Blue Jay
Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay
Black-billed Magpie
Clark’s Nutcracker
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee / CHICKADEES • TITMICE
Mountain Chickadee
Juniper Titmouse
Verdin / VERDINS
Horned Lark / LARKS
Purple Martin / SWALLOWS
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Bushtit / BUSHTITS
Golden-crowned Kinglet / KINGLETS
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Red-breasted Nuthatch / NUTHATCHES
White-breasted Nuthatch
Pygmy Nuthatch
Brown Creeper / CREEPERS
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher / GNATCATCHERS
Rock Wren / WRENS
Canyon Wren
House Wren
Bewick’s Wren
Cactus Wren
American Dipper / DIPPERS
European Starling / STARLINGS
Gray Catbird / CATBIRD
Curve-billed Thrasher / THRASHERS • MOCKINGBIRDS
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
Eastern Bluebird / THRUSHES
Western Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend’s Solitaire
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing / WAXWINGS
Phainopepla / SILKY˜FLYCATCHERS
House Sparrow / OLD WORLD SPARROWS
Evening Grosbeak / FINCHES • CROSSBILLS
House Finch
Cassin’s Finch
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
Lesser Goldfinch
Lawrence’s Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
Black-throated Sparrow / SPARROWS • JUNCOS • TOWHEES
Lark Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Chipping Sparrow
Brewer’s Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Canyon Towhee
Abert’s Towhee
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Green-tailed Towhee
Spotted Towhee
Yellow-breasted Chat / BLACKBIRDS • ORIOLES • GRACKLES
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Eastern Meadowlark (Lilian’s)
Hooded Oriole
Bullock’s Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Brewer’s Blackbird
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Orange-crowned Warbler / WOOD˜WARBLERS
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Summer Tanager / CARDINALS • GROSBEAKS • BUNTINGS
Western Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Black-headed Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Indigo Bunting
Photo Credits
Index
Acknowledgments