All About Birds Midwest: Midwest US and Canada (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

The perfect guide to the birds of the midwestern United States and central Canada, from the #1 birding website AllAboutBirds.orgThe All About Birds Regional Field-Guide Series brings birding enthusiasts the best information from the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology's website, AllAboutBirds.org, used by more than 21 million people each year. These definitive books provide the most up-to-date resources and expert coverage on bird species throughout North America.This dynamic guide is the perfect companion for anyone interested in the birds of the midwestern United States and central Canada. The guide offers fascinating details about the birds around you, useful bird ID tips, and handy bird-watching information. It presents full accounts of the 221 species most commonly seen in these regions; beautiful photographs of male, female, and immature birds, as well as morphs, and breeding and nonbreeding plumage (so you can ID birds all year long); current range maps; and so much more. The midwestern USA and central Canada edition of All About Birds is easy to use and easy to share.This volume features the following states, provinces, and territories: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, western Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, central Nunavut, and eastern Northwest Territories.Descriptions of 221 bird species, including four photos for each bird chosen specifically for better ID and sourced from the Macaulay Library (a collection of bird photos from citizen scientists)Quick and easy index with illustrations on cover flaps, with complete index at the backInformation on Cornell Lab citizen-science programs and how to participateBonus content includes identification best practices and tips on bird photography, birdscaping, food and feeding, and moreFree MERLIN Bird ID app (downloaded more than 5 million times) for quick ID in the wild using photos and birdsong 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 Canada Goose Mute Swan Trumpeter Swan Wood Duck Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler / GEESE • DUCKS • SWANS Gadwall American Wigeon Mallard American Black Duck Northern Pintail Canvasback Redhead Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Ruddy Duck Northern Bobwhite / QUAIL • TURKEY • GROUSE Wild Turkey Ruffed Grouse Spruce Grouse Ring-necked Pheasant Pied-billed Grebe / GREBES Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Rock Pigeon / PIGEONS • DOVES • CUCKOOS Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk / NIGHTJARS Chimney Swift / SWIFTS • HUMMINGBIRDS White-throated Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Sora / RAILS • GALLINULES • COOTS Common Gallinule American Coot Sandhill Crane / CRANES • STILTS Black-necked Stilt American Golden-Plover / PLOVERS • SANDPIPERS Killdeer Upland Sandpiper Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Spotted Sandpiper Willet Franklin’s Gull / GULLS • TERNS Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Black Tern Common Tern Forster’s Tern Common Loon / LOONS Double-crested Cormorant / CORMORANTS • PELICANS American White Pelican Great Blue Heron / HERONS • IBISES Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron White-faced Ibis Black Vulture / VULTURES Turkey Vulture Osprey / KITES • HAWKS • EAGLES Golden Eagle Mississippi Kite Northern Harrier Cooper’s Hawk Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Swainson’s Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Eastern Screech-Owl / OWLS Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Burrowing Owl Barred Owl Great Gray Owl Belted Kingfisher / KINGFISHERS Yellow-bellied Sapsucker / WOODPECKERS Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Ladder-backed Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Northern Flicker American Kestrel / FALCONS Peregrine Falcon Western Wood-Pewee / TYRANT FLYCATCHERS Eastern Wood-Pewee Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Say’s Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Yellow-throated Vireo / VIREOS Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Loggerhead Shrike / SHRIKES Northern Shrike Canada Jay / JAYS • MAGPIES • CROWS Blue Jay Black-billed Magpie 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 Violet-green 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 Rock Wren / WRENS House Wren Winter Wren Carolina Wren European Starling / STARLINGS Gray Catbird / CATBIRDS Brown Thrasher / THRASHERS • MOCKINGBIRDS Northern Mockingbird Eastern Bluebird / THRUSHES Mountain Bluebird Townsend’s Solitaire 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 Lark Sparrow Lark Bunting Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Fox Sparrow American Tree Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco White-crowned Sparrow Harris’s Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Spotted Towhee Eastern Towhee Yellow-breasted Chat / BLACKBIRDS • ORIOLES • GRACKLES Yellow-headed Blackbird Bobolink Western Meadowlark Eastern Meadowlark Orchard Oriole Bullock’s Oriole Baltimore Oriole Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Brewer’s Blackbird Common Grackle Great-tailed Grackle Ovenbird / WOOD-WARBLERS Black-and-white Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Common Yellowthroat American Redstart Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Palm Warbler Pine Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Wilson’s Warbler Summer Tanager / CARDINALS • GROSBEAKS • BUNTINGS Scarlet Tanager Western Tanager Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black-headed Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Indigo Bunting Painted Bunting Dickcissel Photo Credits Index Acknowledgments

The perfect guide to the birds of the midwestern UnitedStates and central Canada, from the #1;; birding websiteAllAboutBirds.org The All About Birds RegionalField-Guide Series brings birding enthusiasts the best informationfrom the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology's website,AllAboutBirds.org, used by more than 21 million people each year.These definitive books provide the most up-to-date resources andexpert coverage on bird species throughout North America. Thisdynamic guide is the perfect companion for anyone interested in thebirds of the midwestern United States and central Canada. The guideoffers fascinating details about the birds around you, useful birdID tips, and handy bird-watching information. It presents fullaccounts of the 221 species most commonly seen in these regions;beautiful photographs of male, female, and immature birds, as wellas morphs, and breeding and nonbreeding plumage (so you can IDbirds all year long); current range maps; and so much more. Themidwestern USA and central Canada edition of All AboutBirds is easy to use and easy to share. This volume featuresthe following states, provinces, and territories: Illinois,Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, western Ontario,Manitoba, Saskatchewan, central Nunavut, and eastern NorthwestTerritories.

• Descriptions of 221 bird species, including four photos foreach bird chosen specifically for better ID and sourced from theMacaulay Library (a collection of bird photos from citizenscientists)
• Quick and easy index with illustrations on cover flaps, withcomplete index at the back
• Information on Cornell Lab citizen-science programs and how toparticipate
• Bonus content includes identification best practices and tipson bird photography, birdscaping, food and feeding, and more
• Free MERLIN Bird ID app (downloaded more than 5 million times)for quick ID in the wild using photos and birdsong

The perfect guide to the birds of the midwestern United States and central Canada, from the #1 birding website AllAboutBirds.org The All About Birds Regional Field-Guide Series brings birding enthusiasts the best information from the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology's website, AllAboutBirds.org, used by more than 17 million people each year. These definitive books provide the most up-to-date resources and expert coverage on bird species throughout North America. This dynamic guide is the perfect companion for anyone interested in the birds of the midwestern United States and central Canada. The guide offers fascinating details about the birds around you, useful bird ID tips, and handy bird-watching information. It presents full accounts of the 221 species most commonly seen in these regions; beautiful photographs of male, female, and immature birds, as well as morphs, and breeding and nonbreeding plumage (so you can ID birds all year long); current range maps; and so much more. The midwestern USA and central Canada edition of All About Birds is easy to use and easy to share. This volume features the following states, provinces, and territories: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, western Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, central Nunavut, and eastern Northwest Territories. Descriptions of 221 bird species, including four photos for each bird chosen specifically for better ID and sourced from the Macaulay Library (a collection of bird photos from citizen scientists) Quick and easy index with illustrations on cover flaps, with complete index at the back Information on Cornell Lab citizen-science programs and how to participate Bonus content includes identification best practices and tips on bird photography, birdscaping, food and feeding, and more Free MERLIN Bird ID app (downloaded more than 5 million times) for quick ID in the wild using photos and birdsong "The All About Birds Regional Field-Guide Series brings birding enthusiasts the best information from the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology's website, AllAboutBirds.org, used by more than 21 million people each year. These definitive books provide the most up-to-date resources and expert coverage on bird species throughout North America. This dynamic guide is the perfect companion for anyone interested in the birds of the midwestern United States and central Canada. The guide offers fascinating details about the birds around you, useful bird ID tips, and handy bird-watching information. It presents full accounts of the 221 species most commonly seen in these regions; beautiful photographs of male, female, and immature birds, as well as morphs, and breeding and nonbreeding plumage (so you can ID birds all year long); current range maps; and so much more. The midwestern USA and central Canada edition of All About Birds is easy to use and easy to share. This volume features the following states, provinces, and territories: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, western Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, central Nunavut, and eastern Northwest Territories. Descriptions of 221 bird species, including four photos for each bird chosen specifically for better ID and sourced from the Macaulay Library (a collection of bird photos from citizen scientists) Quick and easy index with illustrations on cover flaps, with complete index at the back Information on Cornell Lab citizen-science programs and how to participate Bonus content includes identification best practices and tips on bird photography, birdscaping, food and feeding, and more Free MERLIN Bird ID app (downloaded more than 5 million times) for quick ID in the wild using photos and birdsong"-- Provided by publisher