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• Reference Book Analysis
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• Kathryn Gibbs
• Winter Quarter 2004

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The Birder's HandbookA Field Guide to the
Natural History of North American Birds

• The Essential Companion To Your Identification
  Guide
  
• Paul R. Ehrlich
• David S. Dobkin
• Darryl Wheye

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Bibliographic Citation

• Ehrlich, Paul R.
• The birder's handbook a field guide to the
  natural
  
• history of North American birds/ Paul R.
  Ehrlich,
  
• David S. Dobkin, and Darryl Wheye.
• New York Simon Schuster c1988.
• xxx, 785 p. ill. 22 cm.
• 1. Birds North America Identification.
• 2. Birds North America.
• 598.297 dc19
• ISBN 0-671-65989-8

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Arrangement and Indexing

• Introduction
• How to use this book
• Observing and recording bird biology
• Species Treatments
• Essays
• Guide to Essay Topics
• Subject Index
• Index to North American Birds

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Scope and Currency

• The Birder's Handbook is a complete and
  authoritative reference book about the birds of
  North America. It is up-to-date, and in a field
  guide format.
• It describes 646 species of birds that breed in
  North America, and shows at a glance
  
• Where the birds nest which sex builds the nest.
• How many eggs the bird lays what they look
  like.
  
• Food preferences and foraging habits.

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Other useful information

• The Birder's Handbook is a field identification
  guide which also includes information about
  
• Displays and mating
• Wintering
• Conservation status
• and 250 short essays covering all aspects of
  avian natural history.
  

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Appendices

• Hawaiian Bird Biology
• Feral Birds
• Pelagic Birds
• DNA and Passrine Classification
• North American Birds Omitted From the Species
  Treatment

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Authority

• Paul R. Ehrlich is Bing Professor of Population
  Studies and Professor of Biology at Standford ,
  and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
  He is the author of over 400 scientific articles
  and more than 20 books, including the Population
  Bomb, Extinction, and The Machinery of Nature.
• David S. Dobkin is a Henry Rutgers Fellow and
  Assistant Professor of Zoology at Rutgers
  University. His scientific publications on
  ornithology and ecology include studies of birds
  in many parts of North America and the
  Carribean.
• Darryl Wheye is a biological consultant and
  writer.