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Author Green, Charlotte Hilton

Title Birds of the south : permanent and winter birds / by Charlotte Hilton Green ; with a new introduction and new appendix by Eloise F. Potter
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 287 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Living with the birds -- Carolina Chickadee, the acrobat of birddom -- The Tufted Titmouse -- The Nuthatch, bird jack-of-all-trades -- The Brown Creeper, the puritan of birds -- The Kinglets -- The Wrens -- The Mockingbird, the nightingale of the South -- The Brown Thrasher -- The Hermit, our only winter Thursh -- The Robin -- The Bluebird -- Our winter Warblers -- The American Pipit, or Titlark -- The Phoebe -- The Horned Larks -- The White-throated Sparrow -- The Slate-colored Junco, or Snow Bird -- The Song Sparrow, the "sweet singer" -- The Field, Fox, and Swamp Sparrows -- The Vesper and other Sparrows -- The Cardinal -- The Towhee, or Chewink -- The Goldfinch -- The Purple Finch and some cousins -- The English Sparrow, an unwelcome foreigner
The Starling, another unwelcome foreigner -- The Cedar Waxwing -- The Blackbirds -- The Meadowlark -- The Cowbird, the slacker of birddom -- The Purple Grackle -- The Blue Jay -- The Crows -- The Woodpeckers -- Downy -- The Red-headed Woodpecker -- The Flicker, the bird of many names -- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, the Tippler -- The less common Woodpeckers -- The Belted Kingfisher -- The Loggerhead Shrike, or butcher bird -- The Owls, night watchmen of our fields and gardens -- The Screech Owl -- The Barn, or "Monkey-faced" Owl -- The Barred, or "Hoot" Owl -- The Short-eared and the Long-eared Owls -- Two big owls -- The Sparrow Hawk -- Three good hawks -- Two bad hawks -- The Vultures, nature's scavengers -- The Doves -- Bob-white -- Killdeers
Notes "A Chapel Hill book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Birds -- Southern States
Birds -- North Carolina
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Ornithology.
NATURE -- Birdwatching Guides.
NATURE -- Animals -- Birds.
Birds
North Carolina
Southern States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 94037761
ISBN 0807866741
9780807866740
9798890865878