Best Easy Bird Guide Acadia National Park: A Field Guide to the Birds of Acadia National Park

by Randi Minetor, Nic Minetor

Overview

Birdwatching is for everyone. No other outdoor pursuit yields so much knowledge of nature’s ways with so little effort—if one knows what to look for. Best Easy Bird Guide Acadia National Park opens the world of birding to the novice and expert in this complete guide to getting the most out of birding in Acadia National Park. Best Easy Bird Guide Acadia National Park includes sections on birding technology, equipment, identification techniques, birding “by ear,” where to view birds, field guides, optics, and other essentials to get birders of all skill levels into the field to identify birds throughout Acadia National Park. Especially valuable are descriptions of habitat, feeding, nesting, and migration—informing the reader not only about what kind of bird is on the other end of the binoculars, but what it is up to as well.

Includes:

• GPS coordinates for each species of the top three to five locations where you’re likely to see the bird and what time of year is best for this
• Full-color photos

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493055180
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/01/2021
Series:	Birding Series
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	1,068,158
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Wife-and husband-team Randi and Nic Minetor have collaborated on more than twenty books about hiking, exploring historic cities, America’s national parks, and birds and nature. The team behind the popular book The New England Bird Lover’s Garden, they also worked together on eight Quick Reference Guides to the native birds, trees, and wildflowers of New York State, New York City, and the Mid-Atlantic States. Avid birders and seasoned road trippers, the Minetors collaborated on the best-selling Backyard Birding: A Guide to Attracting and Identifying Birds for Lyons Press.

When not in the car or on the trail, Randi is a journalist specializing in theater technology, medicine, and municipal utilities, and Nic is the resident lighting designer for several theatre and opera companies and museums in upstate New York. The Minetors live in Rochester, New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction viii

How to Use This Guide xix

Parts of a Bird xxi

A Final Word xxii

Leon 1

Grebes 2

Waterfowl 4

Gannet 17

Guillemot 18

Cormorants 19

Gulls and Terns 21

Heron 27

Sandpipers 28

Grouse 31

Turkey 32

Raptors 33

Owls 40

Non-Perching Birds (Nonpasserines)

Dove and Pigeon 43

Hummingbird 45

Kingfisher 46

Woodpeckers 47

Perching Birds (Passerines)

Flycatchers 52

Vireos 57

Jay 59

Raven and Crow 60

Chickadee and Titmouse 62

Nuthatches and Creeper 64

Wren 67

Kinglets 68

Thrushes 70

Mimic Thrush 73

Starling 74

Waxwing 75

Warblers 76

Cardinal 91

Sparrows and Their Allies 92

Junco 97

Blackbirds 98

Finches 100

Old World (Weaver) Finch 102

Appendix 1 Species by Color 103

Appendix B A Realistic Checklist of the Birds of Acadia 109

Appendix C Resources 114

Index by Hot Spot 115

Index by Species 117

About the Author and Photographer 119