The Warbler Guide (eBook)

Tom Stephenson, Scott Whittle (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4686-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A field guide that revolutionizes warbler identificationWarblers are among the most challenging birds to identify. They exhibit an array of seasonal plumages and have distinctive yet oft-confused calls and songs. The Warbler Guide enables you to quickly identify any of the 56 species of warblers in the United States and Canada. This groundbreaking guide features more than 1,000 stunning color photos, extensive species accounts with multiple viewing angles, and an entirely new system of vocalization analysis that helps you distinguish songs and calls.The Warbler Guide revolutionizes birdwatching, making warbler identification easier than ever before. For more information, please see the author videos on the Princeton University Press website.Covers all 56 species of warblers in the United States and CanadaVisual quick finders help you identify warblers from any angleSong and call finders make identification easy using a few simple questionsUses sonograms to teach a new system of song identification that makes it easier to understand and hear differences between similar speciesDetailed species accounts show multiple views with diagnostic points, direct comparisons of plumage and vocalizations with similar species, and complete aging and sexing descriptionsNew aids to identification include song mnemonics and icons for undertail pattern, color impression, habitat, and behaviorIncludes field exercises, flight shots, general identification strategies, and quizzesMore information is available at www.TheWarblerGuide.com

Autor

Tom Stephenson's articles and photos have appeared in Birding and Bird Watcher's Digest, at Surfbirds.com, and in the Handbook of the Birds of the World. He has guided groups across the United States and Asia. A musician, he has had several Grammy and Academy Award winners as clients, and was director of technology at Roland Corporation. Scott Whittle lives in Cape May, New Jersey, and has twenty years of experience as a professional photographer and educator. He holds an MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York, is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony, and is a onetime New York State Big Year record holder.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.7.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 1,000+ color illus. 50 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: alula • American Birding Association • American redstart • back brace • baltimore oriole • Bay-breasted warbler • Bell's vireo • Bird vocalization • Blackburnian warbler • Blackpoll warbler • Black-throated blue warbler • Black-throated green warbler • blue-gray • Blue-gray gnatcatcher • Blue grosbeak • Blue-winged warbler • Bridled titmouse • Call volume (telecommunications) • Carolina Wren • Cerulean warbler • Chestnut-backed chickadee • Chipping sparrow • Common yellowthroat • Connecticut warbler • Cornell University • Covert feather • Dark-eyed junco • diagram • Drab (color) • Duration (music) • female • Field guide • Flier (fish) • Flight feather • forehead • Gleaning (birds) • Glossary • gnatcatcher • Habitat • handkerchief • High Frequency • Hooded warbler • House sparrow • Hybrid zone • insect • insectivore • Interval (music) • Junco • Kentucky warbler • kinglet • Louisiana Waterthrush • Magnolia warbler • moulting • Mourning warbler • musical analysis • Nashville warbler • New World warbler • Nickname • Northern Cardinal • Northern parula • Northern waterthrush • Ornithology • Ovenbird • Ovenbird (family) • Palm warbler • Parula • Philadelphia vireo • Phrase (music) • Pine warbler • plumage • Prairie Warbler • Red-eyed vireo • redstart • Rufous • Scarlet tanager • Setophaga • sexing • Shades of yellow • Singing • Sparrow • Spectrogram • Staccato • subspecies • Supercilium • Swamp sparrow • This Song • Townsend's warbler • Transliteration • Triangular face • Trill (music) • Tropical parula • Vireo • warbler • White-breasted nuthatch • white tail • Wilson's warbler • Yellow-breasted chat • Yellow-rumped warbler • yellowthroat • Yellow-throated warbler
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4686-2 / 1400846862
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4686-3 / 9781400846863