Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America

Artist, writer and naturalist David Sibley is the author and illustrator of a series of successful guides to nature, including the best-selling The Sibley Guide to Birds. He has travelled extensively throughout North America and abroad as a birding tour leader and lecturer. Sibley has contributed art and articles to Smithsonian, Science, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Birding, and North American Birds, and wrote and illustrated a syndicated column for The New York Times. He is the recipient of the Roger Tory Peterson Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Birding Association, and the Linnaean Society of New York’s Eisenmann Medal. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Bird Topography
Swans and Geese
Ducks
Upland Game Birds
Loons and Grebes
Tubenoses
Pelicans, Cormorants, and Allies
Hawks and Vultures
Cranes and Rails
Shorebirds
Gulls
Terns and Skimmers
Skuas and Jaegers
Alcids
Pigeons and Doves
Cuckoos
Owls
Goatsuckers
Swift
Hummingbirds
Kingfishers
Woodpeckers
Falcons
Parrots
Tyrant Flycatchers and Becard
Shrikes and Vireos
Jays and Crows
Larks
Swallows
Chickadees, Nuthatches and their Allies
Wrens, Kinglets Gnatcatchers and Bulbuls
Thrushes and others
Mimids, Starling and Mynas
Pipits, Waxwings, Silky-Flycatchers and Longspurs
Wood-Warblers
True Tanagers
Emberizine Sparrows and their Allies
Tanagers, Cardinals and Buntings
Icterids
Finches and Old World Sparrows
Checklist
Index