Orioles, Blackbirds, and Their Kin: A Natural History

by Alexander F. Skutch

Book Overview

From blackbirds and orioles to meadowlarks, grackles, and cowbirds, the variety and variation shown by members of the family Icteridae is legend. The family exhibits great diversity in size and coloration, mating and nest building, and habits and habitats. This group of 94 New World species once known as the troupials is well represented in backyards across America; yet most icterids are tropical or semi-tropical species that remain largely unstudied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816516014
• ISBN13: 9780816516018
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"