Birds of Massachusetts Field Guide
By Stan Tekiela
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Identify Massachusetts birds with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information.
Make bird-watching in Massachusetts 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 132 species of Massachusetts 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:
- 132 species: Only Massachusetts 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 11 new species, updated photographs and range maps, expanded information, and even more of Stan’s expert insights. So grab Birds of Massachusetts Field Guide for your next birding adventure—to help ensure that you positively identify the birds that you see.
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Birds of Massachusetts Field Guide - Stan Tekiela
Eastern Towhee
Pipilo erythrophthalmus
male
female
SUMMER
Stan’s Notes: Named for its distinctive tow-hee
call (given by both sexes) but known mostly for its other characteristic call, which sounds like drink-your-tea!
Will hop backward with both feet (bilateral scratching), raking up leaf litter to locate insects and seeds. Male feeds the young most of the time. In southern coastal states, some have red eyes; others have white eyes.
Brown-headed Cowbird
Molothrus ater
male
female
YEAR-ROUND
Stan’s Notes: Cowbirds are members of the blackbird family. Known as brood parasites, Brown-headed Cowbirds are the only parasitic birds in Massachusetts. Brood parasites lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, leaving the host birds to raise their young. Cowbirds are known to have laid their eggs in the nests of over 200 species of birds. While some birds reject cowbird eggs, most incubate them and raise the young, even to the exclusion of their own. Look for warblers and other birds feeding young birds twice their own size. Named Cowbird
for its habit of following bison and cattle herds to feed on insects flushed up by the