Life Histories of North American Marsh Birds: Flamingo, Spoonbill, Ibis, Jabiru, Bittern, Heron, Egret, Crane, Limpkin, Rail, Crake, Gallinule, Coot (Dover Books on Birds)

392 pp. 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 54 different kinds of marsh bird. The complete textual coverage is supplemented by 98 full-page plates containing 179 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 John Burroughs Medal winning reference series.