Birds of Kentucky Field Guide

by Stan Tekiela

Overview

Get the New Edition of Kentucky’s Best—Selling Bird Guide

Learn to identify birds in Kentucky, and make bird—watching even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela’s famous field guide, bird identification is simple and informative. There’s no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don’t live in your area. This book features 118 species of Kentucky birds organized by color for ease of use. Do you see a yellow bird and don’t know what it is? Go to the yellow section to find out.

Book Features:

• 118 species: Only Kentucky birds
• Simple color guide: See a yellow bird? Go to the yellow section
• Compare feature: Decide between look—alikes
• Stan’s Notes: Naturalist tidbits and facts
• Professional photos: Crisp, stunning full—page images

This new edition includes more species, updated photographs and range maps, revised information, and even more of Stan’s expert insights. So grab Birds of Kentucky Field Guide for your next birding adventure—to help ensure that you positively identify the birds that you see.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781647552978
Publisher:	Adventure Publications, Incorporated
Publication date:	08/30/2022
Series:	Bird Identification Guides
Edition description:	2nd Revised ed.
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	4.30(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Naturalist, wildlife photographer and writer Stan Tekiela is the author of more than 190 field guides, nature books, children’s books, wildlife audio CDs, puzzles and playing cards, presenting many species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, trees, wildflowers and cacti in the United States. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural History from the University of Minnesota and as an active professional naturalist for more than 30 years, Stan studies and photographs wildlife throughout the United States and Canada. He has received various national and regional awards for his books and photographs. Also a well—known columnist and radio personality, his syndicated column appears in more than 25 newspapers and his wildlife programs are broadcast on a number of Midwest radio stations.

Read an Excerpt

American Goldfinch
Spinus tristis

Size: 5" (13 cm)

Male: A perky yellow bird with a black patch on forehead. Black tail with conspicuous white rump. Black wings with white wing bars. No marking on the chest. Dramatic change in color during winter, similar to female.

Female: dull olive yellow without a black forehead, with brown wings and white rump

Juvenile: same as female

Nest: cup; female builds; 1 brood per year

Eggs: 4—6; pale blue without markings

Incubation: 10—12 days; female incubates

Fledging: 11—17 days; female and male feed young

Migration: partial migrator, flocks of up to 20 birds move around North America

Food: seeds, insects, will come to seed feeders

Compare: Confused with other winter birds. The Pine Siskin (pg. 75) has streaked chest and belly, and yellow wing bars. Female Purple Finch (pg. 85) has heavily streaked chest and a white eye stripe. The female House Finch (pg. 71) has a heavily streaked white chest.

Stan’s Notes: Most often found in open fields, scrubby areas and woodlands. Often called Wild Canary. A feeder bird that enjoys Nyjer seed. Late summer nesting, uses the silky down from wild thistle for nest. Appears roller—coaster—like in flight. Listen for it to twitter during flight. Almost always in small flocks. Moves only far enough south to find food.

Table of Contents

Introduction

• What’s New?
• Why Watch Birds in Kentucky?
• Observation Strategies: Tips to Identify Birds
• Bird Basics
• Bird Color Variables
• Bird Nests
• Who Builds the Nest?
• Fledging
• Why Birds Migrate
• How Do Birds Migrate?
• How to Use This Guide
• Range Maps

Sample Pages

The Birds

• Black
• Black and White
• Blue
• Brown
• Gray
• Green
• Orange
• Red
• White
• Yellow

Birding on the Internet

Checklist/Index by Species

Observation Notes

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