Birds: A Fully Illustrated, Authoritative and Easy-To-Use Guide (Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press) - Softcover

Zim, Herbert S; Gabrielson, Ira N

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582381283 ISBN 13: 9781582381282

Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press, 2001

Synopsis

This guide will help you identify-quickly and easily-the birds you are most likely to see. It tells you:

What to look for
Where and when to look
How to attract birds

Range maps show where each bird is found, and handy tables at the back of the book contain a wealth of additional information about migration, eggs, nests, and food. This is the perfect bird book for beginners at any age.

About this title

From the Publisher:

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BALTIMORE ORIOLE

Icterus galbula

Halloween comes to mind when a male Baltimore oriole, with its flame-orange and black plumage, flashes into view. By late October, however, this songbird may be seen only occasionally at feeders, as it migrates in colorful flocks from its summer territory throughout the East, It's named not for the Maryland port city on Chesapeake Bay, but for its color scheme, which is the same as that of Lord Baltimore's family, the 17th century founders of the Maryland colony.

Other orioles - Bullock's in the West, the spotted in Florida, and the orchard throughout the East and South - are similar in size, coloration, habits, and diet. Indeed they're known to interbreed and produce hybrids.

Orioles are most commonly seen in broken woodlands, forest edges, parks, open fields, garden, and at feeders. They forage for a wide variety of insects and spiders, and also like berries, other fruits, and flowers nectar.

Versatile singers, orioles can chatter like squirrels, whistle a long melody, and deliver a somewhat forlorn two-note call.

Field Notes

Habitat: Wooded areas, parkland in city, suburb, and country, alongside roads and streams.

Range: Everywhere east of the Rockies except the lower Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf Coast. Bullock's oriole is found throughout the western states.

Diet: Insects and spiders of all kinds, fruits, flower nectar.

Nest: Sack of fibrosis materials suspended at the end of a drooping branch in a deciduous tree.

Eggs: Usually 3 to 5; blue-gray to white with some darker markings.

Status: Not threatened.

Excerpted from Fandex Family Field Guides: Birds. Copyright (c) 1998 by Workman Publishing. Reprinted by permission of Workman Publishing.

From the Back Cover:

BIRDS

Bringing the world of Birds to your fingertips, Fandex presents the ideal field guide.

The images are large, the details sharp, the colors bright. Each die-cut profile is unmistakable - it's like having the real bird in your own hand.

There are instantly accessible details about each bird's habitat, range, diet, nest, eggs and conservation status, as well as appearance, habitats and even song pattern, Plus "pigeon milk" and the Indigo Bunting's ability to navigate by starlight, how the Killdeer fakes injury to distract predators, and Benjamin Franklin's surprising nominee for America's national bird.

- 50 individually die-cut cards

- Full color throughout

- Knowledge at your fingertips

- For the whole family

About this edition

• Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1582381283
• ISBN 13: 9781582381282
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Illustrator: Irving James Gordon