Birds of Minnesota Field Guide
By Stan Tekiela
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Learn to Identify Birds in Minnesota!
Make bird watching even more enjoyable. With Minnesota’s best-selling bird guide, field identification is simple and informative. There’s no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don’t live in your area. This book features 123 species of Minnesota birds organized by color for ease of use. Do you see a yellow bird and don’t know what it is? Go to the yellow section to find out. Crisp, stunning full-page photographs present the species as you’ll see them in nature, and a “compare” feature helps you to decide between look-alikes. Plus, Stan Tekiela’s naturalist notes feature fascinating tidbits and facts.
This new edition includes 14 new species, updated photographs and range maps, expanded information, and even more of Stan’s expert insights. So grab Birds of Minnesota Field Guide for your next birding adventure—to help ensure that you positively identify the birds that you see.
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Brown-headed Cowbird
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Stan’s Notes: Cowbirds are members of the blackbird family. Known as brood parasites, Brown-headed Cowbirds are the only parasitic birds in Minnesota. Brood parasites lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, leaving the host birds to raise their young. Cowbirds are known to have laid their eggs in the nests of over 200 species of birds. While some birds reject cowbird eggs, most incubate them and raise the young, even to the exclusion of their own. Look for warblers and other birds feeding young birds twice their own size. Named Cowbird
for its habit of following bison and cattle herds to feed on insects flushed up by the