From the Book - First edition.
Learning to identify birds
Geographic variation and subspecies
Changes in posture and head shape
Light and atmospheric conditions
Cosmetic coloration and staining
Key to the species accounts
Albatrosses, petrels, and shearwaters
Boobies, frigatebird, pelicans, tropicbird
Bitterns, egrets, flamingos, herons, ibises, night-herons, spoonbill, stork
Domestic waterfowl, exotic waterfowl, geese, swans
Puddle ducks, teals, whistling-ducks, wigeons
Eiders, goldeneyes, mergansers, scaup, scoters
Caracara, condor, eagles, falcons, hawks, kites, New World vultures, osprey
Chukar, exotic game birds, grouse, partridge, pheasant, prairie-chickens, ptarmigan, quail, turkey
Coot, cranes, gallinule, moorhen, rails, sora
Plovers, oystercatchers, stilts, and avocets
Curlews, dowitchers, godwits, phalaropes, ruff, sandpipers, snipe, turnstones, whimbrel, willet, yellowlegs
Skuas, jaegers, and gulls
Auklets, dovekie, guillemots, murrelets, murres, puffins, razorbill
Flycatchers, kingbirds, phoebes, wood-pewees
Jays, crows, and their allies
Crows, jays, magpies, ravens, scrub-jays
Chickadees, nuthatches, and their allies
Bushtit, chickadees, creeper, nuthatches, titmice, verdin
Kinglets, Old World warblers, and gnatcatchers
Bluebirds, robins, thrushes
Catbird, mockingbird, thrashers
Waxwings, silky-flycatchers, and starlings
Chat, ovenbird, parula, redstart, warblers, waterthrushes, yellowthroat
Tanagers, cardinals, and their allies
Cardinaline buntings, cardinals, dickcissel, grosbeaks, tanagers
Emberizine sparrows and their allies
Emberizine buntings, juncos, longspurs, sparrows, towhees
Blackbirds, bobolink, cowbirds, grackles, meadowlarks, orioles
Finches and Old World sparrows
Crossbills, finches, goldfinches, grosbeaks, Old World sparrow, redpolls, siskin.