Life Histories of North American Blackbirds, Orioles, Tanagers, and Their Allies: Blackbird, Redwing, Oriole, Grackle, Cowbird, Tanager, Meadowlark (Dover Books on Birds)

549 pp., 37 plates follow text. The all-encompassing series on North American birds prepared by Arthur Cleveland Bent forms the most complete, most comprehensive, most-used single source of information in existence on the subject. This volume offers an encyclopedic collection of information about 62 different varieties, including English sparrows, bobolinks, types of meadowlark, blackbird, redwing, oriole, grackle, bronzed and brown-headed cowbird and tanager. The complete textual coverage is supplemented by 37 full-page plates containing 55 black and white photographs of nests, eggs, day-old nestlings, courtship display, habitats, etc. No ornithologist, conservationist, amateur naturalist or bird watcher should be without this reference series.