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Media Shelf: Waterfowl
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Here are some books for people looking for shorebird materials
beyond the general North American field guides.
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by Dick Walton & Greg Dodge
Brown Bag Productions, 2000
38 Eastern North American species, VHS, 70 Minutes
Video guide to identifying eastern shorebirds. Good coverage of 38 species
in a variety of plumages. Some species could use some additional close-up footage
to more clearly show narrated fieldmarks.
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by Peter Hayman, John Marchant, and Tony Prater
Houghton Mifflin, 1986
214 World species, 412 pages, 6 x 9.25 inches, Paper
88 Color Plates, Color Range Maps
Detailed color plates show species by age, sex, and race.
Detailed species text covers identification,
habits, migration, and details of age, sex, and race.
Color maps are side-by-side with plates and show
breeding, nonbreeding and migration distributions.
Includes brief intro on how to identify shorebirds and a very extensive
bibliography.
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by Arthur Morris
NorthWord Press, 1996
49 North American species, 159 pages, 6 x 9 inches, Paper
Color Photos
The photographs that fill this book are excellent and
are used effectively to demonstrate the behaviors and plumages
described in the accompanying, easy to read text.
Most of the photos capture stunning detail and behavior.
The first half of the book covers various aspects of behavior including
feeding, migration, mating, nesting, and more. Species accounts include
descriptions of breeding, non-breeding, and juvenile plumages
along with details of habitat and behavior. The book finishes
with chapters on shorebirding and conservation.
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by Brian Harrington with Charles Flowers
W.W. Norton & Company, 1996
192 pages, 8.5 x 9.25 inches, Hard
Color Photos, Detailed Migration and Range Maps
The first two thirds of the book follows the Red Knot's
amazing nomadic migratory cycle from Tierra del Fuego to
Brazil to Delaware Bay to the Canadian artic and back.
Each stage of the journey is described in detail
and includes accounts from Harrington's and others' research findings.
The last third of the book covers issues of concern about shorebirds
including banding, diet, threats to the Delaware Bay, navigation,
and habitat conservation.
Written in an easy to read style this book gives the reader
a good sense of what shorebirds go through throughout the
year and the importance of migratory stopover areas.
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Cape Cod
Shorebirds
