All about birds. Texas & Oklahoma.

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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
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck / GEESE • DUCKS
	Snow Goose
	Canada Goose
	Muscovy Duck
	Wood Duck
	Blue-winged Teal
	Northern Shoveler
	Gadwall
	American Wigeon
	Mallard
	Mexican Duck
	Mottled Duck
	Northern Pintail
	Canvasback
	Redhead
	Lesser Scaup
	Ruddy Duck
	Northern Bobwhite / QUAIL • TURKEY
	Scaled Quail
	Wild Turkey
	Pied-billed Grebe / GREBES
	Eared Grebe
	Rock Pigeon / PIGEONS • DOVES • CUCKOOS
	Eurasian Collared-Dove
	Inca Dove
	Common Ground Dove
	White-winged Dove
	Mourning Dove
	Greater Roadrunner
	Yellow-billed Cuckoo
	Lesser Nighthawk / NIGHTJARS
	Common Nighthawk
	Chimney Swift / SWIFTS • HUMMINGBIRDS
	White-throated Swift
	Ruby-throated Hummingbird
	Black-chinned Hummingbird
	Calliope Hummingbird
	Rufous Hummingbird
	Bu-bellied Hummingbird
	Sora / RAILS • GALLINULES • COOTS
	Common Gallinule
	American Coot
	Purple Gallinule
	Sandhill Crane / CRANES • STILTS • OYSTERCATCHERS
	Black-necked Stilt
	American Oystercatcher
	Black-bellied Plover / PLOVERS • SANDPIPERS
	American Golden-Plover
	Killdeer
	Upland Sandpiper
	Long-billed Curlew
	Marbled Godwit
	Ruddy Turnstone
	Sanderling
	Western Sandpiper
	Spotted Sandpiper
	Willet
	Laughing Gull / GULLS • TERNS
	Franklin’s Gull
	Ring-billed Gull
	Herring Gull
	Least Tern
	Caspian Tern
	Black Tern
	Common Tern
	Forster’s Tern
	Royal Tern
	Black Skimmer / SKIMMERS
	Common Loon / LOONS
	Wood Stork / STORKS
	Anhinga / ANHINGAS
	Neotropic Cormorant / CORMORANTS • PELICANS
	Double-crested Cormorant
	American White Pelican
	Brown Pelican
	Great Blue Heron / HERONS • IBISES • SPOONBILLS
	Great Egret
	Snowy Egret
	Little Blue Heron
	Tricolored Heron
	Cattle Egret
	Green Heron
	Black-crowned Night-Heron
	Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
	White Ibis
	White-faced Ibis
	Roseate Spoonbill
	Black Vulture / VULTURES
	Turkey Vulture
	Osprey / KITES • HAWKS • EAGLES
	White-tailed Kite
	Mississippi Kite
	Northern Harrier
	Cooper’s Hawk
	Bald Eagle
	Harris’s Hawk
	Red-shouldered Hawk
	Swainson’s Hawk
	Red-tailed Hawk
	Rough-legged Hawk
	Eastern Screech-Owl / OWLS
	Great Horned Owl
	Burrowing Owl
	Barred Owl
	Belted Kingfisher / KINGFISHERS
	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker / WOODPECKERS
	Red-headed Woodpecker
	Acorn Woodpecker
	Golden-fronted Woodpecker
	Red-bellied Woodpecker
	Downy Woodpecker
	Ladder-backed Woodpecker
	Hairy Woodpecker
	Pileated Woodpecker
	Northern Flicker
	Crested Caracara / FALCONS
	American Kestrel
	Peregrine Falcon
	Monk Parakeet / PARROTS
	Western Wood-Pewee / TYRANT FLYCATCHERS
	Eastern Wood-Pewee
	Least Flycatcher
	Black Phoebe
	Eastern Phoebe
	Say’s Phoebe
	Vermilion Flycatcher
	Ash-throated Flycatcher
	Great Crested Flycatcher
	Great Kiskadee
	Western Kingbird
	Eastern Kingbird
	Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
	Yellow-throated Vireo / VIREOS
	Warbling Vireo
	Red-eyed Vireo
	Loggerhead Shrike / SHRIKES
	Green Jay /  JAYS • CROWS
	Blue Jay
	Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay
	American Crow
	Fish Crow
	Common Raven
	Carolina Chickadee / CHICKADEES • TITMICE
	Tufted Titmouse
	Black-crested Titmouse
	Verdin / VERDINS
	Horned Lark / LARKS
	Purple Martin / SWALLOWS
	Tree Swallow
	Barn Swallow
	Cliff Swallow
	Cave Swallow
	Bushtit / BUSHTITS
	Golden-crowned Kinglet / KINGLETS
	Ruby-crowned Kinglet
	Red-breasted Nuthatch / NUTHATCHES
	White-breasted Nuthatch
	Brown-headed Nuthatch
	Brown Creeper / CREEPERS
	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher / GNATCATCHERS
	Rock Wren / WRENS
	Canyon Wren
	House Wren
	Carolina Wren
	Bewick’s Wren
	Cactus Wren
	European Starling / STARLINGS
	Gray Catbird / CATBIRDS
	Curve-billed Thrasher / THRASHERS • MOCKINGBIRDS
	Brown Thrasher
	Northern Mockingbird
	Eastern Bluebird / THRUSHES
	Mountain Bluebird
	Hermit Thrush
	Wood Thrush
	American Robin
	Cedar Waxwing / WAXWINGS
	Phainopepla / SILKY-FLYCATCHERS
	House Sparrow / OLD WORLD SPARROWS
	House Finch / FINCHES • LONGSPURS
	Pine Siskin
	Lesser Goldfinch
	American Goldfinch
	Lapland Longspur
	Grasshopper Sparrow / SPARROWS • JUNCOS • TOWHEES
	Black-throated Sparrow
	Lark Sparrow
	Lark Bunting
	Chipping Sparrow
	Field Sparrow
	Brewer’s Sparrow
	Fox Sparrow
	Dark-eyed Junco
	White-crowned Sparrow
	Harris’s Sparrow
	White-throated Sparrow
	Savannah Sparrow
	Song Sparrow
	Lincoln’s Sparrow
	Canyon Towhee
	Rufous-crowned Sparrow
	Green-tailed Towhee
	Spotted Towhee
	Eastern Towhee
	Yellow-breasted Chat / BLACKBIRDS • ORIOLES • GRACKLES
	Western Meadowlark
	Eastern Meadowlark
	Orchard Oriole
	Hooded Oriole
	Bullock’s Oriole
	Baltimore Oriole
	Red-winged Blackbird
	Bronzed Cowbird
	Brown-headed Cowbird
	Brewer’s Blackbird
	Common Grackle
	Boat-tailed Grackle
	Great-tailed Grackle
	Black-and-white Warbler / WOOD-WARBLERS
	Prothonotary Warbler
	Orange-crowned Warbler
	Common Yellowthroat
	Northern Parula
	Yellow Warbler
	Palm Warbler
	Pine Warbler
	Yellow-rumped Warbler
	Yellow-throated Warbler
	Wilson’s Warbler
	Summer Tanager / CARDINALS • GROSBEAKS • BUNTINGS
	Northern Cardinal
	Pyrrhuloxia
	Rose-breasted Grosbeak
	Black-headed Grosbeak
	Blue Grosbeak
	Indigo Bunting
	Painted Bunting
	Dickcissel
Photo Credits
Index
Acknowledgments