Part I
By Peter Pyle
A greatly expanded revision to Identification Guide to North American Passerines. A synthesis of known and new information on identification, geographic variation, molt, ageing, and sexing landbirds in the hand and the field.
- 395 species treated (Doves through Weavers)
- 349 figures with close to 1,000 separate illustrations
- 11 tables with measurement data by species, subspecies, age, and/or sex
- Expanded (38 page) introduction
- Detailed sections on molt and ageing of near-passerines, owls, woodpeckers, and passerines; identification of female-plumaged hummingbirds
- Descriptors (including new information and measurements) of 855 subspecies
- Bar graphs (representing the standards of BBL and CWS acceptance criteria) indicating reliability, by month, of ageing and sexing each species
- All known hybrids listed
- 2,442 cited references
- 691 pages total
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Peter Pyle's Identification Guide to North American Passerines and Dan Froehlich's Ageing North American Landbirds by Molt Limits and Plumage Criteria: a Photographic Companion to the Identification Guide are both available from:
Slate Creek Press
PO Box 219
Bolinas, CA 94924
Details on ordering both are available at the Institute For Bird Populations website.
