Birds Worth Knowing (Little Nature Library)

xii, 257 pp. With 48 illustrations in color. CONTENTS: Preface; List of Illustrations; What Birds Do for Us; The Thrush Family: Bluebird, Robin, Wood Thrush, Veery; Some Neighborly Acrobats: Ruby-crowned and Golden-crowned Kinglet, Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, White-breasted Nuthatch, Red-breasted Nuthatch; A Family Group of Lively Singers: Marsh Wren, House Wren, Carolina Wren, Brown Thrasher, Catbird, Mocking-bird; The Warblers: Redstart, Yellow-breasted Chat, Maryland Yellow-throat, Oven-bird, Backburnian Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Myrtle Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Black and White Creeping Warbler; Vireos or Greenlets: Red-eyed Vireo, White-eyed Vireo, Yellow-throated Vireo, Warbling Vireo; Birds Not of a Feather: Loggerhead Shrike, Northern Shrike, Cedar Wax-wing, Scarlet Tanager, Summer Tanager; The Swallows: Purple Martin, Barn Swallow, Cliff or Eaves Swallow, Bank Swallow, Tree Swallow; The Comprehensive Sparrow Tribe and Some of Its Multitudinous Kin: Indio Bunting, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Cardinal, Towhee, Junco, Snowflake, Fox Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, Field Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Tree Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, English Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, Goldfinch, Purple Finch; The Ill-Assorted Blackbird Family: Bronzed and Purple Grackles, or Crow Blackbirds, Rusty Blackbird, Baltimore Oriole, Orchard Oriole, Meadowlark, Red-winged Blackbird, Cowbird, Bobolink; Two Rascally Relations: Crow, Blue Jay; Some Queer Relations: Whippoorwill, Night-hawk, Chimney Swift, Ruby-throated Humming-bird; Carpenters in Feathers: Flicker, Red-headed Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker; Kingfisher and Cuckoos: Belted Kingfisher, Yellow-billed and Black-billed Cuckoos; Night and Day Game Hunters: Screech Owl, Barred Owl, Short-eared owl, Long-eared Owl, Barn Owl, Osprey, Sparrow-hawk, Bald Eagle and Golden Eagle, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Cooper's Hawk and the Sharp-shinned Hawk, Marsh Hawk, Turkey Vulture; Mourner, Martyr, Whistler and Drummer: Mourning Dove, Passenger Pigeon, Bob-white, Ruffed Grouse; Birds of the Shore and Marshes: Killdeer, Semi-palmated and Ring-necked Plover, Least Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Woodcock, Sora and Clapper Rails, Coot, Great Blue Heron, Little Green Heron, Bittern; The Fastest Flyers, Swimmers, and Divers: Canada Goose, Wild Ducks, Shoveler, Pintail, Herring, Gull, Loon; Color Key; Index.