All about birds. Northeast. Northeast US and Canada

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Cover Table of Contents Introduction Getting Started Birding 101 Four Keys to Bird Identification 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 • SWANS • DUCKS Brant Canada Goose Mute Swan Trumpeter Swan Wood Duck Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Mallard American Black Duck Northern Pintail Canvasback Redhead Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Common Eider Harlequin Duck Ruddy Duck Wild Turkey / TURKEY • GROUSE Ruff˜ed Grouse Spruce Grouse Ring-necked Pheasant Pied-billed Grebe / GREBES Red-necked Grebe Rock Pigeon / PIGEONS • DOVES • CUCKOOS Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk / NIGHTJARS Chimney Swift / SWIFTS • HUMMINGBIRDS Ruby-throated Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Sora / RAILS • GALLINULES • COOTS Common Gallinule American Coot Sandhill Crane / CRANES • OYSTERCATCHERS American Oystercatcher Black-bellied Plover / PLOVERS • SANDPIPERS Killdeer Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Spotted Sandpiper Willet Common Murre / MURRES • AUKS Razorbill Black Guillemot Black-legged Kittiwake / GULLS • TERNS Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Least Tern Caspian Tern Black Tern Common Tern Forster’s Tern Black Skimmer / SKIMMERS Red-throated Loon / LOONS Common Loon Northern Gannet / GANNETS Double-crested Cormorant / CORMORANTS Great Blue Heron / HERONS • IBISES Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Glossy Ibis Black Vulture / VULTURES Turkey Vulture Osprey / KITES • HAWKS • EAGLES Golden Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper’s Hawk Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Eastern Screech-Owl / OWLS Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Barred Owl Belted Kingfisher / KINGFISHERS Yellow-bellied Sapsucker / WOODPECKERS Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Northern Flicker American Kestrel / FALCONS Peregrine Falcon Monk Parakeet / PARROTS Eastern Wood-Pewee / TYRANT FLYCATCHERS Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Yellow-throated Vireo / VIREOS Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Northern Shrike / SHRIKES Canada Jay / JAYS • CROWS Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Common Raven Carolina Chickadee / CHICKADEES • TITMICE Black-capped Chickadee Boreal Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Horned Lark / LARKS Purple Martin / SWALLOWS Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow Golden-crowned Kinglet / KINGLETS Ruby-crowned Kinglet Red-breasted Nuthatch / NUTHATCHES White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper / CREEPERS Blue-gray Gnatcatcher / GNATCATCHERS House Wren / WRENS Winter Wren Carolina Wren European Starling / STARLINGS Gray Catbird / CATBIRDS Brown Thrasher / THRASHERS • MOCKINGBIRDS Northern Mockingbird Eastern Bluebird / THRUSHES Swainson’s Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Bohemian Waxwing / WAXWINGS Cedar Waxwing House Sparrow / OLD WORLD SPARROWS Evening Grosbeak / FINCHES • CROSSBILLS • LONGSPURS Pine Grosbeak House Finch Purple Finch Common Redpoll Hoary Redpoll Red Crossbill Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Grasshopper Sparrow / SPARROWS • JUNCOS • TOWHEES Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Fox Sparrow American Tree Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco White-crowned Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Eastern Towhee Bobolink / BLACKBIRDS • ORIOLES • GRACKLES Eastern Meadowlark Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Common Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle Ovenbird / WOOD-WARBLERS Black-and-white Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler American Redstart Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Palm Warbler Pine Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Wilson’s Warbler Scarlet Tanager / CARDINALS • GROSBEAKS • BUNTINGS Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting / CARDINALS • GROSBEAKS Image Credits Index Acknowledgments