03093cam a2200289 4500 283109560 TxAuBib 20050913120000.0 050913s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781566120852 $15.00 1566120853 $15.00 UDI UDI ALK TxAuBib Bowman, Timothy Dale, 1959- Field Guide to Bird Nests and Eggs of Alaska's Coastal Tundra / Timothy D. Bowman. [Fairbanks, Alaska : Alaska Sea Grant College Program, [2004] 81 p : ill., map ; softcover ; 22 cm. Cover title. Introduction -- Photo credits -- Loons. Yellow-billed loon ; Common loon ; Red-throated loon ; Pacific loon -- Waterfowl and crane. Tundra swan ; Sandhill crane -- Geese. Parting shots--geese by tail patterns ; Quick reference for dark goose nests ; Taverner's Canada goose ; Snow goose ; Emperor goose ; Greater white-fronted goose ; Cackling Canada goose -- Brant -- Eiders. Common eider ; Spectacled eider ; King eider ; Steller's eider ; Ducks. Black scoter ; White-winged scoter ; Canvasback ; Red-breasted merganser ; Greater scaup ; Long-tailed duck (Oldsquaw) ; Northern shoveler ; Mallard ; Northern pintail ; Green-winged teal ; American wigeon -- Jaegers, gulls, and terns. Pomarine jaeger ; Parasitic jaeger ; Long-tailed jaeger ; Glaucous gull ; Claucous-winged gull ; Mew gull ; Sabine's gull ; Aleutian tern ; Arctic tern -- Owls. Snowy owl ; Short-eared owl -- Ptarmigan. Willow ptarmigan ; Rock ptarmigan -- Alcids. Black guillemot -- Shorebirds. Whimbrel ; Bar-tailed godwit ; Marbled godwit ; Wilson's snipe ; Long-billed dowitcher ; American golden-plover ; Pacific golden-plover ; Black-bellied plover ; White-rumpled sandpiper ; Ruddy turnstone ; Black turnstone ; Pectoral sandpiper ; Buff-breasted sandpiper ; Stilt sandpiper ; Baird's sandpiper ; Rock sandpiper ; Dunlin ; Western sandpiper ; Semipalmated sandpiper ; Least sandpiper ; Semipalmated plover ; Red phalarope ; Red-necked phalarope -- Passerines. Redpolls ; Snow bunting ; Lapland longspur ; Savannah sparrow ; Golden-crowned sparrow ; Yellow wagtail -- Sizing chart for unpatterned eggs -- Sizing chart for patterned eggs. Illustrated with more than 450 photographs of birds, nests and nesting habitat, eggs, feathers, and wings of over 70 species, this book provides an efficient way to identify nests and eggs of birds on Alaska's coastal tundra. Its range includes the Alaska Peninsula, the Bering and Chukchi Sea coasts, and east along the Arctic Coastal Plain past the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the Canadian border. The book is constructed with tough, waterproof paper which will hold up under rigorous use in the field. 20050913. Birds Eggs Alaska. Birds. Nests Birds Alaska. Wetlands and Tundra Alaska Birds Identification. Eggs. Alaska Sea Grant College Program.