Get the New Edition of Missouri’s Best-Selling Bird Guide
Learn to identify birds in Missouri, 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 121 species of Missouri 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:
121 species: Only Missouri 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 Missouri Field Guide for your next birding adventure—to help ensure that you positively identify the birds that you see.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781647550851
Media Type: Paperback(2nd Revised ed.)
Publisher: Adventure Publications Incorporated
Publication Date: 04-27-2021
Pages: 320
Product Dimensions: 4.30(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.80(d)
Series: Bird Identification Guides
About the Author
Naturalist, wildlife photographer and writer Stan Tekiela is the author of more than 175 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 25 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
Read an Excerpt
Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
Size: 8–9" (20–22.5 cm)
Female: Buff brown bird with tinges of red on crest and wings, a black mask and large red bill
Male: red with a large crest and bill, and black mask extending from the face to the throat
Juvenile: same as female, but with a blackish gray bill
Nest: cup; female builds; 2–3 broods per year
Eggs: 3–4; bluish white with brown markings
Incubation: 12–13 days; female and male incubate
Fledging: 9–10 days; female and male feed the young
Migration: non-migrator
Food: seeds, insects, fruit; comes to seed feeders
Compare: Similar size as the male Summer Tanager (pg. 243), but the Tanager is rosy red. Male Scarlet Tanager (pg. 241) has black wings and tail. Look for Northern Cardinal’s black mask, large crest and red bill.
Stan’s Notes: A familiar backyard bird. Seen in a variety of habitats, including parks. Usually likes thick vegetation. One of the few species in which both females and males sing. Can be heard all year. Listen for its “whata-cheer-cheer-cheer” territorial call in spring. Watch for a male feeding a female during courtship. The male also feeds the young of the first brood while the female builds a second nest. Territorial in spring, fighting its own reflection in a window or other reflective surface. Non-territorial in winter, gathering in small flocks of up to 20 birds. Makes short flights from cover to cover, often landing on the ground. Cardinalis denotes importance, as represented by the red priestly garments of Catholic cardinals.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction 6
What's New? 6
Why Watch Birds in Missouri? 7
Observe with a Strategy; Tips for Identifying Birds 9