Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide
by Linda Tuttle-Adams
From Cornell University Press:
Baby Bird Identification is a comprehensive illustrated guide for distinguishing hundreds of North American bird species in their early stages of life. From the just hatched to the fledgling, Linda Tuttle-Adams walks readers through the process of identifying baby birds that they may encounter in the wild―a first step to ensuring proper care and rehabilitation.
Successful rehabilitation of birds found in the wild requires species-specific attention. But the identification of a baby bird, whether altricial or precocial, may seem overwhelming at first, even to a trained ornithologist. Tuttle-Adams lays out an approachable and systematic method for discerning a baby bird’s identity, offering descriptions of telling anatomical and environmental features as well as details of a bird’s day-to-day growth.
With over four hundred original watercolor paintings and an illustrated glossary, Baby Bird Identification is an invaluable resource for wildlife rehabilitators, those who find baby birds in their yards or recreational places, and anyone who enjoys watching or studying birds in the wild.
The primary audience for this book is wildlife rehabbers, and for them it should be an invaluable reference, not only for identification but also for their care. But for fellow birders, as little as we encounter birds this young, I don’t think it would get enough use to be worthwhile. Instead, if you are interested in learning more about baby birds, including what they look like at various ages, I would highly recommend Julie Zickefoose’s Baby Birds: An Artist Looks into the Nest.
Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide
by Linda Tuttle-Adams
Paperback; 432 pages
Cornell University Press; October 15, 2022
ISBN: 9781501762857
$39.95
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Posted by Grant McCreary on October 25th, 2022.
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