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Guide to North American Birds

Featured Bird

Cedar Waxwing

Cedar Waxwing

Bombycilla cedrorum

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Cedar Waxwing. Photo: Peter Brannon/Audubon Photography Awards

 

Credits: All illustrations © David Allen Sibley. All bird guide text and rangemaps adapted from Lives of North American Birds by Kenn Kaufman © 1996, used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Bird call audio © Lang Elliott & Associates. Photography sourced in part from VIREO, the worldwide bird photography collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

American Sparrow Hawk

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Matching Birds

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Bank Swallow

Riparia riparia

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Barn Swallow

Hirundo rustica

calls calls

Cave Swallow

Petrochelidon fulva

song flock calls alarm calls begging calls

Cliff Swallow

Petrochelidon pyrrhonota

calls

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Stelgidopteryx serripennis

chew calls various calls bubbly songs dawn song

Purple Martin

Progne subis

perch songs dawn song calls #1 calls #2

Tree Swallow

Tachycineta bicolor

calls #1 (song calls #2 calls #3

Violet-green Swallow

Tachycineta thalassina

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