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All About Backyard Birds- Eastern & Central North America

All About Backyard Birds- Eastern & Central North America

All About Backyard Birds- Eastern & Central North America

All About Backyard Birds- Eastern & Central North America

Overview

A series of beginner-to-novice birding books, All About Backyard Birds is based on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s number one birding website allaboutbirds.org, which has had more than 21 million unique users to date.

All About Backyard Birds delivers best-in-class content and proven user-friendly formats. Each regional version—eastern/central North America and western North America—provides 120 of the most popular species and is filled with beautiful illustrations by Pedro Fernandes. With charts, maps, and other bird identification tools, All About Backyard Birds offers beginner birders the ideal way to start birding.

All About Backyard Birds also includes a tutorial for MERLIN®, an interactive GPS-based bird identification multimedia app (available in iTunes and Android stores and already used by more than 1 million birders), plus a FREE Bird QR book companion app. The app empowers users with a tap-to-listen birdsong function and gives more information about special topics throughout the book.

As with all Cornell Lab Publishing Group books, a portion of the net proceeds from the sale of All About Backyard Birds goes directly to the Cornell Lab to support projects, including children’s educational and community programs.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781943645046
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 04/11/2017
Series: Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Pages: 200
Sales rank: 73,223
Product dimensions: 4.60(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 5 Years

About the Author

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a world leader in the study, appreciation, and conservation of birds. Its hallmarks are scientific excellence and technological innovation to advance the understanding of nature and to engage people of all ages in learning about birds and protecting the planet.

Founded in 1915, the Cornell Lab is a nonprofit organization with a vibrant community that includes 400,000 citizen-science participants from all walks of life and 14 million bird enthusiasts of all ages who connect online at AllAboutBirds.org

Pedro Fernandes is a freelance wildlife illustrator. Born in Lisbon, Pedro earned a degree in Earth Sciences, and later studied Science Illustration at the University of California, Santa Cruz and at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. As a child, Pedro wanted to be a condor when he grew up. Having failed at that, he settled for becoming a wildlife illustrator. He loves watching birds, drawing birds, and going places to see birds―his pretext to explore the natural world and an endless source of amazement and discovery. Pedro lives in Morocco.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
How to Use This Book
Getting Started
Bird QR Book Companion App

Birding 101
• Bird Identication
• Merlin® Bird ID App
• The Right Stu ff
• Listening to Birds
• Photographing Birds
• Attracting Birds to Your Backyard
• Birdscaping
• Bird Feeders
• Bird Food
• Water Sources
• Nest Boxes

Getting Involved
• Citizen Science
• Recording Birds & eBird
• Project FeederWatch
• NestWatch
• Celebrate Urban Birds
• Great Backyard Bird Count
• Habitat Network

Guide to Eastern & Central Species
• Canada Goose
• Wood Duck
• Mallard
• Northern Bobwhite
• Ring-necked Pheasant
• Wild Turkey
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Double-crested Cormorant
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Egret
• Green Heron
• Black Vulture
• Turkey Vulture
• Osprey
• Bald Eagle
• Sharp-shinned Hawk
• Cooper’s Hawk
• Red-shouldered Hawk
• Red-tailed Hawk
• American Coot
• Sandhill Crane
• Killdeer
• Ring-billed Gull
• Herring Gull
• Rock Pigeon
• Eurasian Collared-Dove
• Inca Dove
• Common Ground-Dove
• White-winged Dove
• Mourning Dove
• Eastern Screech-Owl
• Great Horned Owl
• Barred Owl
• Common Nighthawk
• Chimney Swift
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• Black-chinned Hummingbird
• Rufous Hummingbird
• Belted Kingsher
• Red-headed Woodpecker
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
• Downy Woodpecker
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Northern Flicker
• Pileated Woodpecker
• American Kestrel
• Peregrine Falcon
• Eastern Wood-Pewee
• Eastern Phoebe
• Great Crested Flycatcher
• Eastern Kingbird
• Red-eyed Vireo
• Blue Jay
• American Crow
• Fish Crow
• Common Raven
• Horned Lark
• Purple Martin
• Tree Swallow
• Barn Swallow
• Carolina Chickadee
• Black-capped Chickadee
• Tufted Titmouse
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• White-breasted Nuthatch
• Brown-headed Nuthatch
• Brown Creeper
• House Wren
• Carolina Wren
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• Eastern Bluebird
• Hermit Thrush
• Wood Thrush
• American Robin
• Gray Catbird
• Brown Thrasher
• Northern Mockingbird
• European Starling
• Cedar Waxwing
• Ovenbird
• Black-and-white Warbler
• Common Yellowthroat
• American Redstart
• Yellow Warbler
• Palm Warbler
• Pine Warbler
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Eastern Towhee
• American Tree Sparrow
• Chipping Sparrow
• Field Sparrow
• Savannah Sparrow
• Fox Sparrow
• Song Sparrow
• White-throated Sparrow
• Harris’s Sparrow
• White-crowned Sparrow
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Summer Tanager
• Scarlet Tanager
• Northern Cardinal
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• Blue Grosbeak
• Indigo Bunting
• Painted Bunting
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Eastern Meadowlark
• Brewer’s Blackbird
• Common Grackle
• Great-tailed Grackle
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• Baltimore Oriole
• House Finch
• Purple Finch
• Common Redpoll
• Pine Siskin
• American Goldnch
• House Sparrow

About the Cornell Lab
About the Writing Team
About the Artist
Acknowledgments
Photo Credits
References
Index

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