Field Guide to Waders of Europe, Asia and North AmericaWaders of Europe, Asia and North America – the definitive guide to this sternest of field identification challenges – just got even better. This enhanced fixed-format version of the book – featuring songs and calls – is set to change birding, forever. Optimised for iPad, it features the book in crisp, clear high-resolution. Superb, fully zoomable colour plates of the highest detail lie opposite comprehensive identification text, separated into 'at rest' and 'in flight' sections, and accurate range maps. In addition, this e-book features songs, calls and other sounds from all 124 species of sandpipers, snipes, stints, godwits and their kin in the northern hemisphere. This epic collection of images and sounds represents a step change in the way birders operate. It provides a complete field-based ID solution – no birder will want to be without it. |
Contents
| 6 | |
Topography of waders at rest | 13 |
Contents | 27 |
Plate Species 16 Asian Plovers and Lapwings | 66 |
Great Snipe and woodcocks | 68 |
Swinhoes Lathams Wood and Solitary Snipes | 70 |
Jack Common Wilsons and Pintail Snipes | 72 |
Dowitchers | 74 |
Coursers and Egyptian Plover | 136 |
Pratincoles | 138 |
Lapwings | 140 |
Southern lapwings and Great Thickknee | 142 |
62 | 144 |
Ringed plovers | 146 |
Plate Species 56 Killdeer and Wilsons Collared and Piping Plovers | 148 |
Kentish Kittlitzs and Threebanded Plovers | 150 |
Eurasian godwits | 76 |
American godwits | 78 |
64 | 80 |
Smaller curlews | 82 |
Larger curlews | 84 |
Redshanks | 86 |
Marsh Sandpiper Greenshank and Willet | 88 |
Yellowlegs and tattlers | 90 |
Wood Solitary and Green Sandpipers | 92 |
Spotted Common and Terek Sandpipers | 94 |
Turnstones and Surfbird | 96 |
Asian specialities | 98 |
Sanderling and knots | 100 |
Semipalmated and Western Sandpipers | 102 |
Darklegged stints | 104 |
Palelegged stints | 106 |
Whiterumped and Bairds Sandpipers | 108 |
Pectoral Sharptailed and Buffbreasted Sandpipers | 110 |
Dunlin and Curlew Sandpiper | 112 |
Broadbilled Rock and Purple Sandpipers | 114 |
Stilt Sandpiper and Ruff | 116 |
Phalaropes | 118 |
56 | 120 |
Oriental vagrants | 122 |
African vagrants | 124 |
Waders in flight Explanation of the species accounts | 127 |
Plate Species 46 Painted Snipe jacanas and Ibisbill | 128 |
Crab Plover and oystercatchers | 130 |
Avocets and stilts | 132 |
Thickknees | 134 |
Sand Plovers Caspian and Oriental Plovers and Dotterel | 152 |
Woodcocks and Great Snipe | 154 |
Common Wilsons Pintail and Jack Snipes | 156 |
Swinhoes Solitary Lathams and Wood Snipes | 158 |
Bartailed Godwit and dowitchers | 160 |
Willet and godwits | 162 |
Smaller curlews and Upland Sandpiper | 164 |
Whimbrel and Bristlethighed Curlew | 166 |
Larger curlews | 168 |
Greenshanks Spotted Redshank and Marsh Sandpiper | 170 |
Yellowlegs and tattlers | 172 |
Wood Solitary and Green Sandpipers | 174 |
Spotted Common and Terek Sandpipers and Redshank | 176 |
Turnstones and Surfbird | 178 |
Stints and Spoonbilled Sandpiper | 180 |
American sandpipers and Longtoed Stint | 182 |
Whiterumped sandpipers and knots | 184 |
Darkrumped sandpipers and Ruff | 186 |
Purple Rock and Broadbilled Sandpipers and Dunlin | 188 |
Phalaropes and Sanderling | 190 |
Appendices A Upperpart flight patterns | 193 |
i Nearctic | 194 |
ii Western Palearctic | 196 |
iii Eastern Palearctic | 198 |
B Underpart flight patterns | 200 |
Systematic list | 203 |
Bibliography | 216 |
| 218 | |
Sounds sound recordists and localities | 225 |
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Field Guide to the Waders of Europe, Asia and North America Stephen Message,Don W. Taylor No preview available - 2005 |
Common terms and phrases
adult Avocet Bar-tailed Godwit Behaviour Feeds bill Black-winged Pratincole blackish Boris breast-band breeding plumage brown upperparts buff fringes calidrid Calidris chestnut coastal Common Snipe Confusion species contrasting crown Curlew dark brown dark subterminal display flight distinctive Distribution Vagrant Dowitcher Dunlin ear-coverts Eurasian Eurasian Curlew Eurasian Golden Plover flanks Flight action flight call flocks Godwit Golden Plover grey-brown Habitat Habitat Breeds Habitat Nests hindneck Jacana juv juv Key ID features Lapwing legs Leonovitch Lesser Sand Plover Long-billed mantle and scapular mantle feathers mudflats narrow neck and breast non-breeding plumage Northern Lapwing notches Oystercatcher paler Phalarope Pied Avocet Plover plate plumage Pratincole Racial variation Red Knot rufous rump Sandpiper plate scapulars Semipalmated shaft streaks Snipe song flight SPECIES LIST Spotted Stint subterminal bars supercilium tail tail-tip tertials Thick-knee tundra underparts are white Underparts white undertail-coverts upperpart feathers usually Veprintsev & Vladimir waders Whimbrel white supercilium white wingbar whitish wing-coverts wings winters