| Description |
xiv, 477 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-468) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface : a simplified approach to shorebird identification -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- How to use this guide -- Species photos -- Domestic species -- Lapwings and plovers (Family charadriidae) -- Black-bellied plover -- Pacific golden-plover -- Snowy plover -- Wilson's plover -- Semipalmated plover -- Piping plover -- Killdeer -- Mountain plover -- Oystercatchers (Family haematopodidae) -- American oystercatcher -- Black oystercatcher -- Stilts and avocets (Family recurvirostridae) -- Black-necked stilt -- American avocet -- Sandpipers, phalaropes, and allies (Family scolopacidae -- Greater yellowlegs -- Lesser yellowlegs -- Solitary sandpiper -- Eastern willet -- Willet subspecies comparison -- Western willet -- Willet subspecies comparison -- Western willet -- Wandering tattler -- Spotted sandpiper -- Upland sandpiper -- Whimbrel -- Whimbrel subspecies comparison -- Long-billed curlew -- Hudsonian godwit -- Marbled godwit -- Ruddy turnstone -- Black turnstone -- Surfbird -- Red knot -- Sanderling -- Semipalmated sandpiper -- Western sandpiper -- Least sandpiper -- White-rumped sandpiper -- Baird's sandpiper -- Pectoral sandpiper -- Purple sandpiper -- Rock sandpiper -- Dunlin -- Dunlin subspecies comparison -- Stilt sandpiper -- Buff-breasted dowitcher -- Long-billed dowitcher -- Wilson's snipe -- American woodcock -- Wilson's phalarope -- Red-necked phalarope -- Red phalarope -- |
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Rarities and regional specialties -- Thick-knees (Family burhinidae) -- Double-striped thick-knee -- Lapwings and plovers (Family charadriidae) -- Northern lapwing -- European golden-plover -- Lesser sand-plover -- Greater sand-plover -- Collared plover -- Common ringed plover -- Little ringed plover -- Eurasian dotterel -- Oystercatchers (Family haematopodidae) -- Eurasian oystercatcher -- Stilts and avocets (Family recurvirostridae) -- Black-winged stilt -- Jaçanas (Family jaçanidae) -- Northern jaçana -- Sandpipers, phalaropes, and allies (Family scolopacidae) -- Common greenshank -- Marsh sandpiper -- Common redshank -- Spotted redshank -- Wood sandpiper -- Green sandpiper -- Gray-tailed tattler -- Common sandpiper -- Terek sandpiper -- Little curlew -- Eskimo curlew -- Bristle-thighed curlew -- Far Eastern curlew -- Slender-billed curlew -- Eurasian curlew -- Black-tailed godwit -- Bar-tailed godwit -- Great knot -- Red-necked stint -- Little stint -- Temminck's stint -- Long-toed stint -- Juvenile stint comparison -- Worn breeding red-necked and little stint and ID pitfalls -- Sharp-tailed sandpiper -- Curlew sandpiper -- Broad-billed sandpiper -- Ruff -- Jack snipe -- Common snipe -- Pin-tailed snipe -- Eurasian woodcock -- Coursers and pratincoles (Family glareolidae) -- Oriental pratincole -- Hybrid shorebirds -- Aberrant shorebirds -- |
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Species accounts -- Appendix -- Answers to quiz questions in species photos -- Full page photo information -- Captions for impression photos in domestic section -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Photo credits -- Index. |
| Subject |
Shore birds -- Identification.
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Shore birds -- Pictorial works.
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| Added Author |
Crossley, Richard, 1964?-
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Karlson, Kevin.
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| ISBN |
0618432949 |
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9780618432943 |
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