Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1

About this eBook

Author

Bent, Arthur Cleveland, 1866-1954

Title

Life histories of North American shore birds, Part 1 (of 2)

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Matthias Grammel, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

QL: Science: Zoology

Subject

Birds -- Behavior

Category

Text

eBook-No.

47028

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47028

Release Date

October 3, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Life Histories of North American Shore Birds
2. 2.ADVERTISEMENT
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
4. 4.INTRODUCTION
5. 5.Family PHALAROPODIDAE, Phalaropes — PHALAROPUS FULICARIUS (Linnaeus) RED PHALAROPE — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — LOBIPES LOBATUS (Linnaeus) NORTHERN PHALAROPE — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — STEGANOPUS TRICOLOR Vieillot WILSON PHALAROPE — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION
6. 6.Family RECURVIROSTRIDAE, Avocets and Stilts — RECURVIROSTRA AMERICANA Gmelin AMERICAN AVOCET — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — HIMANTOPUS MEXICANUS (Müller) BLACK-NECKED STILT — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION
7. 7.Family SCOLOPACIDAE, Snipes and Sandpipers — SCOLOPAX RUSTICOLA Linnaeus EUROPEAN WOODCOCK — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — RUBICOLA MINOR (Gmelin) AMERICAN WOODCOCK — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — CAPELLA GALLINAGO GALLINAGO (Linnaeus) EUROPEAN SNIPE — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — CAPELLA GALLINAGO DELICATA (Ord) WILSON SNIPE — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — CAPELLA MEDIA (Latham) GREAT SNIPE — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — LYMNOCRYPTES MINIMUS (Brünnich) JACK SNIPE — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — LIMNODROMUS GRISEUS GRISEUS (Gmelin) EASTERN DOWITCHER — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — LIMNODROMUS GRISEUS SCOLOPACEUS (Say) LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — MICROPALAMA HIMANTOPUS (Bonaparte) STILT SANDPIPER — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — CALIDRIS CANUTUS RUFUS (Wilson) AMERICAN KNOT — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — CALIDRIS TENUIROSTRIS (Horsfield) EASTERN ASIATIC KNOT — ARQUATELLA MARITIMA (Brünnich) PURPLE SANDPIPER — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — ARQUATELLA PTILOCNEMIS PTILOCNEMIS (Coues) PRIBILOF SANDPIPER — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — ARQUATELLA PTILOCNEMIS COUESI (Ridgway) ALEUTIAN SANDPIPER — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — PISOBIA ACUMINATA (Horsfield) SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — PISOBIA MACULATA (Vieillot) PECTORAL SANDPIPER — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — PISOBIA FUSCICOLLIS (Vieillot) WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — PISOBIA BAIRDI (Coues) BAIRD SANDPIPER — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — PISOBIA MINUTILLA (Vieillot) LEAST SANDPIPER — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — PISOBIA SUBMINUTA (Middendorff) LONG-TOED STINT — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — PISOBIA RUFICOLLIS (Pallas) RUFOUS-NECKED SANDPIPER — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — PELIDNA ALPINA ALPINA (Linnaeus) DUNLIN — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — PELIDNA ALPINA SAKHALINA (Vieillot) RED-BACKED SANDPIPER — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — EROLIA FERRUGINEA (Brünnich) CURLEW SANDPIPER — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — EURYNORHYNCHUS PYGMEUS (Linnaeus) SPOON-BILL SANDPIPER — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — EREUNETES PUSILLUS (Linnaeus) SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — EREUNETES MAURI Cabanis WESTERN SANDPIPER — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — CROCETHIA ALBA (Pallas) SANDERLING — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — LIMOSA FEDOA (Linnaeus) MARBLED GODWIT — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — LIMOSA LAPPONICA BAUERI Naumann PACIFIC GODWIT — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — LIMOSA HAEMASTICA (Linnaeus) HUDSONIAN GODWIT — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — LIMOSA LIMOSA LIMOSA (Linnaeus) BLACK-TAILED GODWIT — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — GLOTTIS NEBULARIA (Gunnerus) GREENSHANK — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — TOTANUS TOTANUS (Linnaeus) REDSHANK — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — TOTANUS MELANOLEUCUS (Gmelin) GREATER YELLOW-LEGS — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION — TOTANUS FLAVIPES (Gmelin) LESSER YELLOW-LEGS — HABITS — DISTRIBUTION
8. 8.REFERENCES TO BIBLIOGRAPHY
9. 9.PLATES
10. 10.INDEX
11. 11.LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS

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