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Bird Guide: Water Birds, Game Birds, and Birds of Prey East of the Rockies
Chester Albert Reed
142 pages~2 hr 49 min read267 chapters$4.99
For the birds of shore, marsh, and open sky, Reed made a companion volume. This guide covers the water birds, game birds, and birds of prey east of the Rockies, opening with the shapes and habits that place a bird in its order. Compact, illustrated, endlessly useful. Take it to the coast and name every wing overhead.
Every copy includes a printable PDF edition, a beautifully typeset book you can print, mark up in the margins, and keep on your shelf. Yours the moment you own it.
Inside this book
267 chapters
- 1BIRD GUIDE Water Birds, Game Birds and Birds of Prey
- 2PREFACE
- 3INTRODUCTION
- 4THINGS TO REMEMBER Characteristics of Form or Habit That Will Determine to What Order or Family Birds Belong.
- 5ORDER 1. DIVING BIRDS—Pygopodes.
- 6ORDER 2. LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS.—Longipennes.
- 7ORDER 3. TUBE-NOSED SWIMMERS.—Tubinares.
- 8ORDER 4. TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS.—Steganopodes.
- 9ORDER 5. DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS. Anseres.
- 10ORDER 6. FLAMINGOES. Odontoglossæ.
- 11ORDER 7. HERONS, IBISES, ETC. Herodiones.
- 12ORDER 8. MARSH BIRDS. Paludicolæ.
- 13ORDER 9. SHORE BIRDS. Limicolæ.
- 14ORDER 10. FOWLS. Gallinæ.
- 15ORDER 11. PIGEONS AND DOVES. Columbæ.
- 16ORDER 12. BIRDS OF PREY. Raptores.
- 17BIRD GUIDE
- 18DIVING BIRDS—Order Pygopodes GREBES—Family Colymbidæ WESTERN GREBE
+ 249 more. The full contents open with the book.
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