All about birds : Midwest

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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