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The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior - References



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Loons
Grebes
Albatrosses
Shearwaters and Petrels
Storm-Petrels
Tropicbirds
Boobies and Gannets
Pelicans
Cormorants
Darters (Anhinga)
Frigatebirds
Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns
Ibises and Spoonbills
Storks
New World Vultures
Flamingos
Ducks, Geese, and Swans
Hawks and Allies
Falcons and Caracaras
Chachalacas and Allies
Grouse, Turkeys, and Allies
New World Quail
Rails, Gallinules, and Coots
Limpkin
Cranes
Thick-knees
Plovers and Lapwings
Oystercatchers
Stilts and Avocets
Jacanas
Sandpipers, Phalaropes, 
and Allies

Coursers and Pratincoles
Gulls, Terns, and Allies
Auks
Pigeons and Doves
Parrots and Allies
Cuckoos, Roadrunners, 
and Allies

Barn Owls
Typical Owls
Nighthawks and Nightjars
Swifts
Hummingbirds
Trogons
Hoopoe
Kingfishers
Woodpeckers and Allies
Tyrant Flycatchers
Shrikes
Vireos
Crows and Jays
Larks
Swallows and Martins
Chickadees and Titmice
Penduline Tits (Verdin)
Long-tailed Tits (Bushtit)
Nuthatches
Creepers
Wrens
Dippers
Bulbuls
Kinglets
Old World Warblers and 
Gnatcatchers

Old World Flycatchers
Thrushes
Babblers (Wrentit)
Mockingbirds and Thrashers
Starlings and Mynas
Accentors
Wagtails and Pipits
Waxwings
Silky-flycatchers
Olive Warbler
Wood-Warblers
Bananaquit
Tanagers
New World Sparrows
Cardinals and Allies
Blackbirds, Orioles, and Allies
Finches and Allies
Old World Sparrows

CROWS AND JAYS

Family Corvidae


Chapter author: Kevin J. McGowan

Balda, R. P., A. C. Kamil, and P. A. Bednekoff. 1996. Predicting cognitive capacity from natural history: examples from four species of corvids. Current Ornithology 13:33-66.

Birkhead, T. R.. 1991. The magpies: The ecology and behaviour of Black-billed and Yellow-billed Magpies. Academic Press, London.

Cox, J. A. 1987. Status and distribution of the Florida Scrub Jay. Florida Ornithological Society, Special Publication No. 3, Gainesville, FL.

Enggist-Dublin, P., and T. R. Birkhead. 1992. Differences in the calls of European and North American Black-billed Magpies and the Yellow-billed Magpie. Bioacoustics 4:185-194.

Goodwin, D. 1986. Crows of the world. 2nd Edn. University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA.

Heinrich, B. 1991. Ravens in winter. Vintage Books.

Heinrich, B. 2000. Mind of the raven: investigations and adventures with wolf-birds. HarperCollins, London.

Kamil, A. C., and J. E. Jones. 1997. The seed-storing corvid Clark’s nutcracker learns geometric relationships among landmarks. Nature 390:276-279.

Madge, S., and H. Burn. 1994. Crows and jays: A guide to the crows, jays and magpies of the world. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA.

Marzluff, J. M., and R. P. Balda. 1992. The Pinyon Jay: behavioral ecology of a colonial and cooperative corvid. T. & A. D. Poyser, London.

Peterson, A. T. 1991. Gene flow in scrub jays: frequency and direction of movement. Condor 93:926-934.

Peterson, A. T. 1992. Phylogeny and rates of molecular evolution in Aphelocoma jays (Corvidae). Auk 109:133-147.

Woolfenden, G. E., and J. W. Fitzpatrick. 1984. The Florida Scrub Jay: demography of a cooperative-breeding bird. Monographs in Population Biology No. 20, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.