An edition of Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia
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Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia
A Guide to Field Identification
by Don Taylor
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Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia is a quick-reference field guide to the sandpipers, plovers, stints, and other shorebirds found on these continents. The exhaustive and superbly detailed color plates show the birds at rest and in flight, and in every plumage variant likely to be encountered. Species are treated plumage by plumage alongside images of similar species they are otherwise likely to be confused with. Succinct text on pages facing the plates summarizes the key identification features of appearance, voice, and behavior. There is a color distribution map for each of the described species. This guide provides fast, easy, and reliable field identification of this challenging group of birds.
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Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia: A Guide to Field Identification
March 6, 2006, Princeton University Press
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Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia: A Guide to Field Identification (Princeton Field Guides)
March 6, 2006, Princeton University Press
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First Sentence
"WADERS, AS THEY ARE KNOWN IN EUROPE, or shorebirds, as they are more widely referred to, comprise some 222 species in 14 families within the Charadriiformes order, including sheathbills (according to Clements, 2000)."
Table of Contents
Preface.
6
Acknowledgements.
8
Introduction.
9
Overview of wader families.
9
How to use this guide.
12
How to identify waders at rest.
13
Topography of waders at rest.
14
Bills.
16
Feet and legs.
16
Structure.
17
Size and colour.
18
Moult.
19
Feather patterns.
24
Plumage variations.
25
Behaviour.
25
Feeding.
26
Display.
29
Feigning injury.
30
How to identify waders in flight.
31
Topography of waders in flight.
32
Behaviour.
34
Colour plates: Waders at rest
Explanation of the species accounts.
35
Plate.
Species
1. Painted Snipe, Crab Plover and Ibisbill.
36
2. Oystercatchers.
38
3. Stilts.
40
4. Avocets.
42
5. Thick-knees.
44
6. Egyptian Plover and coursers.
46
7. Pratincoles.
48
8. Lapwings.
50
9. Eurasian Golden and Grey Plovers.
52
10. Pacific and American Golden Plovers.
54
11. Ringed Plovers.
56
12. Wilson’s Plover and Killdeer.
58
13. Kentish and Piping Plovers.
60
14. Sand Plovers.
62
15. Caspian and Mountain Plovers, and Dotterel.
64
16. Asian Plovers and Lapwings.
66
17. Great Snipe and woodcocks.
68
18. Swinhoe’s, Latham’s, Wood and Solitary Snipes.
70
19. Jack, Common, Wilson’s and Pintail Snipes.
72
20. Dowitchers.
74
21. Eurasian godwits.
76
22. Dips, American godwits.
78
23. Upland Sandpiper and Little Curlew.
80
24. Smaller curlews.
82
25. Larger curlews.
84
26. Redshanks.
86
27. Marsh Sandpiper, Greenshank and Willet.
88
28. Yellowlegs and tattlers.
90
29. Wood, Solitary and Green Sandpipers.
92
30. Spotted, Common and Terek Sandpipers.
94
31. Turnstones and Surfbird.
96
32. Asian specialities.
98
33. Sanderling and knots.
100
34. Semipalmated and Western Sandpipers.
102
35. Dark-legged stints.
104
36. Pale-legged stints.
106
37. White-rumped and Baird’s Sandpipers.
108
38. Pectoral, Sharp-tailed and Buff-breasted Sandpipers.
110
39. Dunlin and Curlew Sandpiper.
112
40. Broad-billed, Rock and Purple Sandpipers.
114
41. Stilt Sandpiper and Ruff.
116
42. Phalaropes.
118
43. North American rarities.
120
44. Oriental vagrants.
122
45. African vagrants.
124
Colour plates: Waders in flight
Explanation of the species accounts.
127
Plate.
Species
46. Painted Snipe, jacanas and Ibisbill.
128
47. Crab Plover and oystercatchers.
130
48. Avocets and stilts.
132
49. Thick-knees.
134
50. Coursers and Egyptian Plover.
136
51. Pratincoles.
138
52. Lapwings.
140
53. Southern lapwings and Great Thick-knee.
142
54. Large plovers.
144
55. Ranged plovers.
146
56. Kailldeer, and Wilson’s, Collared and Piping Plovers.
148
57. Kentish, Kittlitz’s and Three-banded Plovers.
150
58. Sand Plovers, Caspian and Oriental Plovers and Dotterel.
152
59. Woodcocks and Great Snipe.
154
60. Common, Wilson’s, Pintail and Jack Snipes.
156
61. Swinhoe’s, Solitary, Latham’s and Wood Snipes.
158
62. Bar-tailed Godwit and dowitchers.
160
63. Willet and godwits.
162
64. Smaller curlews and Upland Sandpiper.
164
65. Whimbrel and Bristle-thighed Curlew.
166
66. Larger curlews.
168
67. Greenshanks, Spotted Redshank and Marsh Sandpiper.
170
68. Yellowlegs and tattlers.
172
69. Wood, Solitary and Green Sandpipers.
174
70. Spotted, Common and Terek Sandpipers, and Redshank.
176
71. Turnstones and Surfbird.
178
72. Stints and Spoon-billed Sandpiper.
180
73. American sandpipers and Long-toed Stint.
182
74. 'White-rumped’ sandpipers and knots.
184
75. ‘Dark-rumped’ sandpipers and Ruff.
186
76. Purple, Rock and Broad-billed Sandpipers, and Dunlin.
188
77. Phalaropes and Sanderling.
190
Appendices
A. Upperpart flight patterns.
193
i) Nearctic.
194
ii) Western Palearctic.
196
iii) Eastern Palearctic.
198
B. Underpart flight patterns.
200
C. Systematic list.
203
Bibliography.
216
Index.
218
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