Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia
Subtitle: A Guide to Field Identification
Series: Princeton Field Guides
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 6, 2006
Place of publication: Princeton, New Jersey; Soho Square, London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780691126722
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Birds & birdwatching; Nature/Ecology; Nature; Birds & Birdwatching - General; Biological Sciences; Birds (ornithology); Birds and Natural History; Nature / Birds & Birdwatching; Nature / Field Guide Books
First sentence: WADERS, AS THEY ARE KNOWN IN EUROPE, or shorebirds, as they are more widely referred to, comprise some 222 species in 14 families within the Charadriiformes order, including sheathbills (according to Clements, 2000).
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: 6; label: Acknowledgements
title: 8; label: Introduction
title: 9; label: Overview of wader families
title: 9; label: How to use this guide
title: 12; label: How to identify waders at rest
title: 13; label: Topography of waders at rest
title: 14; label: Bills
title: 16; label: Feet and legs
title: 16; label: Structure
title: 17; label: Size and colour
title: 18; label: Moult
title: 19; label: Feather patterns
title: 24; label: Plumage variations
title: 25; label: Behaviour
title: 25; label: Feeding
title: 26; label: Display
title: 29; label: Feigning injury
title: 30; label: How to identify waders in flight
title: 31; label: Topography of waders in flight
title: 32; label: Behaviour
title: 34; title: Colour plates: Waders at rest; label: Explanation of the species accounts
title: 35; label: Plate
title: Species; label: 1. Painted Snipe, Crab Plover and Ibisbill
title: 36; label: 2. Oystercatchers
title: 38; label: 3. Stilts
title: 40; label: 4. Avocets
title: 42; label: 5. Thick-knees
title: 44; label: 6. Egyptian Plover and coursers
title: 46; label: 7. Pratincoles
title: 48; label: 8. Lapwings
title: 50; label: 9. Eurasian Golden and Grey Plovers
title: 52; label: 10. Pacific and American Golden Plovers
title: 54; label: 11. Ringed Plovers
title: 56; label: 12. Wilson’s Plover and Killdeer
title: 58; label: 13. Kentish and Piping Plovers
title: 60; label: 14. Sand Plovers
title: 62; label: 15. Caspian and Mountain Plovers, and Dotterel
title: 64; label: 16. Asian Plovers and Lapwings
title: 66; label: 17. Great Snipe and woodcocks
title: 68; label: 18. Swinhoe’s, Latham’s, Wood and Solitary Snipes
title: 70; label: 19. Jack, Common, Wilson’s and Pintail Snipes
title: 72; label: 20. Dowitchers
title: 74; label: 21. Eurasian godwits
title: 76; label: 22. Dips, American godwits
title: 78; label: 23. Upland Sandpiper and Little Curlew
title: 80; label: 24. Smaller curlews
title: 82; label: 25. Larger curlews
title: 84; label: 26. Redshanks
title: 86; label: 27. Marsh Sandpiper, Greenshank and Willet
title: 88; label: 28. Yellowlegs and tattlers
title: 90; label: 29. Wood, Solitary and Green Sandpipers
title: 92; label: 30. Spotted, Common and Terek Sandpipers
title: 94; label: 31. Turnstones and Surfbird
title: 96; label: 32. Asian specialities
title: 98; label: 33. Sanderling and knots
title: 100; label: 34. Semipalmated and Western Sandpipers
title: 102; label: 35. Dark-legged stints
title: 104; label: 36. Pale-legged stints
title: 106; label: 37. White-rumped and Baird’s Sandpipers
title: 108; label: 38. Pectoral, Sharp-tailed and Buff-breasted Sandpipers
title: 110; label: 39. Dunlin and Curlew Sandpiper
title: 112; label: 40. Broad-billed, Rock and Purple Sandpipers
title: 114; label: 41. Stilt Sandpiper and Ruff
title: 116; label: 42. Phalaropes
title: 118; label: 43. North American rarities
title: 120; label: 44. Oriental vagrants
title: 122; label: 45. African vagrants
title: 124; title: Colour plates: Waders in flight; label: Explanation of the species accounts
title: 127; label: Plate
title: Species; label: 46. Painted Snipe, jacanas and Ibisbill
title: 128; label: 47. Crab Plover and oystercatchers
title: 130; label: 48. Avocets and stilts
title: 132; label: 49. Thick-knees
title: 134; label: 50. Coursers and Egyptian Plover
title: 136; label: 51. Pratincoles
title: 138; label: 52. Lapwings
title: 140; label: 53. Southern lapwings and Great Thick-knee
title: 142; label: 54. Large plovers
title: 144; label: 55. Ranged plovers
title: 146; label: 56. Kailldeer, and Wilson’s, Collared and Piping Plovers
title: 148; label: 57. Kentish, Kittlitz’s and Three-banded Plovers
title: 150; label: 58. Sand Plovers, Caspian and Oriental Plovers and Dotterel
title: 152; label: 59. Woodcocks and Great Snipe
title: 154; label: 60. Common, Wilson’s, Pintail and Jack Snipes
title: 156; label: 61. Swinhoe’s, Solitary, Latham’s and Wood Snipes
title: 158; label: 62. Bar-tailed Godwit and dowitchers
title: 160; label: 63. Willet and godwits
title: 162; label: 64. Smaller curlews and Upland Sandpiper
title: 164; label: 65. Whimbrel and Bristle-thighed Curlew
title: 166; label: 66. Larger curlews
title: 168; label: 67. Greenshanks, Spotted Redshank and Marsh Sandpiper
title: 170; label: 68. Yellowlegs and tattlers
title: 172; label: 69. Wood, Solitary and Green Sandpipers
title: 174; label: 70. Spotted, Common and Terek Sandpipers, and Redshank
title: 176; label: 71. Turnstones and Surfbird
title: 178; label: 72. Stints and Spoon-billed Sandpiper
title: 180; label: 73. American sandpipers and Long-toed Stint
title: 182; label: 74. 'White-rumped’ sandpipers and knots
title: 184; label: 75. ‘Dark-rumped’ sandpipers and Ruff
title: 186; label: 76. Purple, Rock and Broad-billed Sandpipers, and Dunlin
title: 188; label: 77. Phalaropes and Sanderling
title: 190; title: Appendices; label: A. Upperpart flight patterns
title: 193; label: i) Nearctic
title: 194; label: ii) Western Palearctic
title: 196; label: iii) Eastern Palearctic
title: 198; label: B. Underpart flight patterns
title: 200; label: C. Systematic list
title: 203; label: Bibliography
title: 216; label: Index
title: 218