In this entertaining, informative, and vibrantly illustrated guide to bird sounds, avian enthusiasts of all levels can improve their bird identification skills, discover new birds, and find joy in the weird and wonderful calls of 101 birds from around the world using the author's laugh-worthy mnemonic prompts.
In this entertaining, informative, and vibrantly illustrated guide to bird sounds, avian enthusiasts of all levels can improve their bird identification skills, discover new birds, and find joy in the weird and wonderful calls of 101 birds from around the world using the author's laugh-worthy mnemonic prompts.
Becca Rowland, an artist and writer from Nova Scotia, Canada, draws inspiration from her mum’s knack for identifying birds by their sounds. Having explored all seven continents and lived on four, Rowland's art reflects her fascination with the diverse birds she has seen worldwide. Find her on Instagram and TikTok: @girlinwhiteglasses.
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Introduction: If It Sounds Like...
We Can't Help It If We're Popular: Some of Your Basic Birds Great Blue Heron Northern Cardinal Great-Tailed Grackle Common Grackle American Robin Blue Jay American White Pelican American Crow Fish Crow Common Raven Common Raven vs. American Crow
It Doesn’t Mean What You Think: Birds with Suggestive Names Coal Tit Tufted Titmouse Eurasian Blue Tit Black-Capped Chickadee Great Tit Long-Tailed Tit Red-Breasted Nuthatch Blue-Footed Booby The Seven Kinds of Chickadees
Someone Has to Play the Villain: Scavengers and Predators American Kestrel Turkey Vulture Black Vulture Shoebill Little Penguin Red-Tailed Hawk Bald Eagle Birds of Prey
Do You Have a Towel? Birds That Love the Water Double-Crested Cormorant Magpie Lark Brown-Headed Cowbird Common Eider Wedge-Tailed Shearwater Trumpeter Swan Weka Ruddy Turnstone Green Kingfisher Brant Northern Shoveler Nest Sweet Nest Who? I Think You Mean Whom: Let's Talk About Owls Barn Owl Tawny Owl Snowy Owl Long-Eared Owl African Wood Owl Burrowing Owl Barred Owl Northern Saw-Whet Owl Western Screech Owl Eastern Screech Owl Owls: Not Just for Fantasy Novels
Ha Ha! Fooled You Again: Birds That Sound like Other Animals African Penguin Barking Owl American Bittern Green Catbird Canada Jay Little Owl Canada Goose Gray Catbird Your Bird Zodiac
Not from Around These Parts: Birds Not from North America Cape Sparrow North Island Kōkako Common Cuckoo Morepork Owl/Ruru African Gray Hornbill Bell Miner Purple-Backed Fairywren White-Browed Coucal Australian King Parrot Korimako We Owe Pigeons an Apology
Human Is as Human Does: Birds That Sound like Us Dusky Grouse Resplendent Quetzal Brown-Headed Nuthatch Ovenbird Eastern Whip-Poor-Will Kookaburra Peacock Common Potoo California Quail Northern Bobwhite Eastern Whipbird Eggs: Every Bird Starts Somewhere
Come Here Often? Birds That Travel and Those That Don’t Upland Sandpiper Whooping Crane Sandhill Crane Snowy Egret Northern Flicker Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker Gray Flycatcher Killdeer Comb-Crested Jacana Willow Ptarmigan Atlantic Puffin European Starling Gunnison Sage Grouse Migration: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Cacophony, Commotion, and Clarity: Birds with Unique Sounds Common Loon Mourning Dove Yellow Rail Australian Magpie Purple Martin Rock Wren Rhinoceros Auklet White-Throated Sparrow Bobolink Swainson’s Thrush White Bellbird Northern Mockingbird Can You Keep It Down? Loud Birds
We Can't Help It If We're Popular: Some of Your Basic Birds Great Blue Heron Northern Cardinal Great-Tailed Grackle Common Grackle American Robin Blue Jay American White Pelican American Crow Fish Crow Common Raven Common Raven vs. American Crow
It Doesn’t Mean What You Think: Birds with Suggestive Names Coal Tit Tufted Titmouse Eurasian Blue Tit Black-Capped Chickadee Great Tit Long-Tailed Tit Red-Breasted Nuthatch Blue-Footed Booby The Seven Kinds of Chickadees
Someone Has to Play the Villain: Scavengers and Predators American Kestrel Turkey Vulture Black Vulture Shoebill Little Penguin Red-Tailed Hawk Bald Eagle Birds of Prey
Do You Have a Towel? Birds That Love the Water Double-Crested Cormorant Magpie Lark Brown-Headed Cowbird Common Eider Wedge-Tailed Shearwater Trumpeter Swan Weka Ruddy Turnstone Green Kingfisher Brant Northern Shoveler Nest Sweet Nest Who? I Think You Mean Whom: Let's Talk About Owls Barn Owl Tawny Owl Snowy Owl Long-Eared Owl African Wood Owl Burrowing Owl Barred Owl Northern Saw-Whet Owl Western Screech Owl Eastern Screech Owl Owls: Not Just for Fantasy Novels
Ha Ha! Fooled You Again: Birds That Sound like Other Animals African Penguin Barking Owl American Bittern Green Catbird Canada Jay Little Owl Canada Goose Gray Catbird Your Bird Zodiac
Not from Around These Parts: Birds Not from North America Cape Sparrow North Island Kōkako Common Cuckoo Morepork Owl/Ruru African Gray Hornbill Bell Miner Purple-Backed Fairywren White-Browed Coucal Australian King Parrot Korimako We Owe Pigeons an Apology
Human Is as Human Does: Birds That Sound like Us Dusky Grouse Resplendent Quetzal Brown-Headed Nuthatch Ovenbird Eastern Whip-Poor-Will Kookaburra Peacock Common Potoo California Quail Northern Bobwhite Eastern Whipbird Eggs: Every Bird Starts Somewhere
Come Here Often? Birds That Travel and Those That Don’t Upland Sandpiper Whooping Crane Sandhill Crane Snowy Egret Northern Flicker Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker Gray Flycatcher Killdeer Comb-Crested Jacana Willow Ptarmigan Atlantic Puffin European Starling Gunnison Sage Grouse Migration: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Cacophony, Commotion, and Clarity: Birds with Unique Sounds Common Loon Mourning Dove Yellow Rail Australian Magpie Purple Martin Rock Wren Rhinoceros Auklet White-Throated Sparrow Bobolink Swainson’s Thrush White Bellbird Northern Mockingbird Can You Keep It Down? Loud Birds
Resources Acknowledgments
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