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Everyday birds: Elementary studies

Chapter 24: INDEX
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A collection of concise, accessible essays on familiar North American birds that combine field observation, natural-history notes, and practical identification tips. Each chapter sketches a species’ appearance, song, habits, and seasonal movements, often illustrated with colored plates and photographs to aid recognition. The author emphasizes quiet attention and simple methods for watching birds, treats a wide range of species from tiny kinglets and hummingbirds to jays, thrushes, sparrows, woodpeckers, and night-flying species, and offers reflections on migration, winter survival, and how ordinary encounters with birds can enrich daily life.

INDEX

Bittern:—
American, 68.
least, 78.

Blackbird, red-winged, 86.

Bluebird, 44, 59, 83.

Bob White, 85.

Bobolink, 86.

Butcher-bird, 19, 86.


Catbird, 86.

Cedar-bird, 84.

Chickadee, 7, 12, 83, 88, 91, 92.

Chimney swift, 56, 63.

Creeper, brown, 10, 91.

Crossbill, white-winged, 87.

Crow, 44, 49, 83.


Flicker, 64, 84.


Goldfinch, 84.

Grosbeak:—
cardinal, 25.
rose-breasted, 36, 40.

Grouse, 85.


Hummingbird, ruby-throated, 51, 63, 84, 99.


Indigo-bird, 86.


Jay, blue, 43, 83, 90.


Kingbird, 47, 85.

Kinglet:—
golden-crowned, 1, 91.
ruby-crowned, 1.


Migration, 93, 99.

Mockingbird, 16.


Nighthawk, 60.

Nuthatch:—
red-breasted, 90.
white-breasted, 88, 89.


Oriole, Baltimore, 83.


Partridge, 85.

Plover, golden, 101.

Plovers, 100.

Purple finch, 36, 37.


Redpoll linnet, 37.

Robin, 83.


Sandpipers, 100.

Shrike:—
great northern, 19, 86.
loggerhead, 21.

Snipe, 61.

Snowbird (junco), 36, 59, 86.

Sparrow:—
chipping, 30, 31.
English, 30, 92.
field, 30, 32, 36, 37.
fox, 36, 37.
Ipswich, 38.
savanna, 26, 38.
song, 26, 36, 37, 39, 83.
tree, 36, 37, 38.
vesper, 26, 36, 37, 39.
white-throated, 36, 37, 38.

Swift, chimney, 56, 63.


Tanager:—
scarlet, 22, 85.
southern, 25.

Thrasher, brown, 15, 86.


Vireo, warbling, 98.

Vireos, 84.

Vulture, California, 1, 4.


Warbler:—
golden, 101.
palm, 102.

Warblers, 84.

Waxwing, cedar, 84.

Whip-poor-will, 60.

Woodcock, 61.

Woodpecker:—
downy, 89, 92.
golden-winged, 64, 84.