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Sunday, 26 November 2017

Common Birds of North America




An Illustrated Guide to 50 Of The Most Common North American Birds

Contents


PAGE BIRD NAME


4. Baltimore Oriole
5. Barn Swallow
6. Chickadee
7. Blue Bird
8. Blue Jay
9. Bobwhite
10. Brown Creeper
11. Brown Thrasher
12. Canada Goose
13. Cardinal
14. Catbird
15. Cedar Waxwing
16. Chimney Swift
17. Chipping Sparrow
18. Cowbird
19. Crow
20. Downy Woodpec
21. Flicker
22. Goldfinch
23. Grackle
24. Green Heron
25. Herring Gull
26. House Sparrow
27. House Wren
28. Junco
29. Killdeer
30. Mallard
31. Mockingbird
32. Mourning Dove
33. Myrtle Warbler
34. Nighthawk
35. Pigeon
36. Purple Martin
37. Red-eyed Vireo
38. Red-headed WP
39. Red-winged BB        
40. Robin
41. Hummingbird
42. Song Sparrow
43. Sparrow Hawk
44. Starling
45. Towhee
46. Tufted Titmouse
47. Turkey Vulture
48. White-breasted Nuthatc
49. White-crowned Sparrow
50. Wood Pewee
51. Wood Thrush
52. Yellowthroat
53. Yellow Warbler





Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)


Look for this bird in groves and shade trees in residential areas of owns and suburbs. Smaller than a robin, the male’s fiery orange and black is easy to spot. As he wings by, his bright colors add a flick of glory to the urban scene.
The song is a rich series of whistled notes. Wintering to South America, the oriole’s summer breeding range stretches from Nova Scotia to north Texas. This is the architect of the graceful pendulant nests usually seen only after the leaves have fallen, and the birds have gone


Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)

Length about 7 inches; distinguished among our swallows by deeply
forked tail. While they breed throughout the United States, they winter to South America.
This is one of the most familiar farm birds and a great insect destroyer, seeking prey from daylight to dark on tireless wings. Its favorite nesting site was barn rafters, upon which it stuck mud baskets to hold its eggs. But modern barns are fewer and so tightly constructed that swallows cannot gain entrance, and in much of this country, they have turned to boat docks, commercial buildings, summer homes, and the out buildings of rural suburbs to keep the species going. Like other rural birds, they have to adjust to changing land-use p


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