Foreword by Pete Dunne -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- How to use this book -- The problem and the solution -- BBI: The why and how -- BBI basics -- Sample field ID scenarios using the BBI approach -- ACCOUNTS -- Ducks, geese, and swans -- Grouse, quails, ptarmigans, wild turkey, ring-necked pheasant, plain chachalaca, and partridges -- Loons and grebes -- Albatrosses, Northern fulmar, petrels, shearwaters, storm-petrels, alcids, tropicbirds, magnificent frigatebird, boobies, Northern gannet, cormorants, anhinga, and pelicans -- Herons, egrets, ibises, wood stork, roseate spoonbill, bitterns, flamingos, cranes, and limpkin -- Rails, gallinules, and American coot -- Raptors -- Shorebirds -- Gulls, jaegers, and skuas -- Terns and black skimmer -- Pigeons and doves -- Cuckoos, greater roadrunner, and anis -- Owls, nightjars, and nighthawks -- Hummingbirds and swifts -- Kingfishers -- Woodpeckers, nuthatches, and brown creeper -- Tyrant flycatchers -- Shrikes and vireos -- Jays, crows, and ravens -- Swallows and purple martin -- Chickadees, titmice, verdin, and bushtit -- Wrens -- Larks, pipits, and wagtails -- American dipper and wrentit -- Gnatcatchers and kinglets -- Bluebirds, Townsend's solitaire, and Northern wheatear -- Thrushes -- Mockingbirds, gray catbird, and thrashers -- Phainopepla, waxwings, European starling, and common myna -- Warblers -- Tanagers, Northern cardinal, and pyrrhuloxia -- Grosbeaks and buntings -- Dickcissel and white-collared seedeater -- Towhees, sparrows, longspurs, and buntings -- Meadowlarks, bobolink, cowbirds, grackles, blackbirds, and orioles -- Finches and Old World sparrows -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Photographer credits -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
"Peterson reference guide to birding by impression" -- Cover.