Identify Iowa birds with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information.
Make bird-watching in Iowa even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela’s famous bird guide, field 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 handy book features 118 species of Iowa birds organized by color for ease of use. Full-page photographs present the species as you’ll see them in nature, and a “compare” feature helps you to decide between look-alikes.
Inside you’ll find:
118 species: Only Iowa birds!
Simple color guide: See a yellow bird? Go to the yellow section
Stan’s Notes: Naturalist tidbits and facts
Professional photos: Crisp, stunning images
This second edition includes six new species, updated photographs and range maps, expanded information, and even more of Stan’s expert insights. So grab Birds of Iowa Field Guide for your next birding adventure—to help ensure that you positively identify the birds that you see.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781647552411
Media Type: Paperback(2nd Revised ed.)
Publisher: Adventure Publications, Incorporated
Publication Date: 04-11-2023
Pages: 304
Product Dimensions: 4.40(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Series: Bird Identification Guides
About the Author
Naturalist, wildlife photographer and writer Stan Tekiela is the author of more than 190 field guides, nature books, children’s books, 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 Universityof 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.
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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. 87) has heavily streaked chest and white line above eye. Female House Finch (pg. 71) has a heavily streaked white chest.
Stan’s Notes: Most often found in open fields, scrubby areas and in 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. Small percentage stays all winter.