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Rare birds -- North America

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• Eskimo Curlew: A Vanishing Species?, by James Bernard Gollop, Thomas W. Barry, and Eve H. Iversen (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

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• The Scientific Bases for the Preservation of the Hawaiian Crow (1992), by National Research Council Commission on Life Sciences (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Ornithological Biography: or, An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America, Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects Represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America (5 volumes; Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1831-1839), by John James Audubon
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org

• Obsolete English Names of North American Birds and Their Modern Equivalents, by Richard C. Banks (HTML at USGS)

• North American Bird Bander (1976-) (partial serial archives)

• North American Bird Bander (1976-) (partial serial archives)

• Western Birds (full serial archives)

• Birds of America, by John James Audubon (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at audubon.org)
• The Birds of America, From Original Drawings (4 volumes; London: The author, 1827-1838), by John James Audubon (at digital.cincinnatilibrary.org)

• Diving Birds of North America, by Paul A. Johnsgard (PDF files at unl.edu)

• Catalogue of British Columbia Birds (1904), by British Columbia Provincial Museum and Francis Kermode (Gutenberg text)
• A Distributional List of the Birds of British Columbia, by Allan Brooks and H. S. Swarth (PDF at unm.edu)

• Birds From the Gulf Lowlands of Southern Mexico (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1943), by Pierce Brodkorb (PDF at Michigan)
• Birds of Pine-Oak Woodland in Southern Arizona and Adjacent Mexico (1957), by Joe T. Marshall (PDF at unm.edu)
• Distributional Check-List of the Birds of Mexico, ed. by Alden H. Miller, Herbert Friedmann, Ludlow Griscom, and Robert T. Moore
  • Part I: PDF at unm.edu
  • Part II: PDF at unm.edu

• American Ornithology: or, The Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States, Not Given by Wilson (4 volumes, 1825-1833), by Charles Lucian Bonaparte (page images at Wisconsin)
• Birds and Poets, With Other Papers, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
• Wake-Robin, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)

• Alabama Birdlife (partial serial archives)

• Status and Distribution of Alaska Birds, by Brina Kessel and Daniel D. Gibson (PDF at unm.edu)

• Fauna of the National Parks of the United States: Birds and Mammals of Mount McKinley National Park (1938), by Joseph S. Dixon (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Status and Distribution of Alaska Birds, by Brina Kessel and Daniel D. Gibson (PDF at unm.edu)

• Birds of the Kotzebue Sound Region, Alaska, by Joseph Grinnell (PDF at unm.edu)

• Birds of Nunivak Island, Alaska (1934), by H. S. Swarth (PDF at unm.edu)

• Birds of Pine-Oak Woodland in Southern Arizona and Adjacent Mexico (1957), by Joe T. Marshall (PDF at unm.edu)
• Birds of the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona (1904), by H. S. Swarth (PDF at unm.edu)
• Birds Recorded from the Santa Rita Mountains in Southern Arizona, by Florence Merriam Bailey (PDF at unm.edu)
• A Distributional List of the Birds of Arizona (1914), by H. S. Swarth (PDF at unm.edu)

• Bird Community Dynamics in a Ponderosa Pine Forest (1979), by Robert C. Szaro and Russell P. Balda (PDF at unm.edu)

• A Revised List of the Birds of Southwestern California (1933), by George Willett (PDF at unm.edu)
• Birds of the Islands off the Coast of Southern California, by A. Brazier Howell (PDF at unm.edu)
• Birds of the Pacific Slope of Southern California (1912), by George Willett (PDF at unm.edu)
• Check-List of California Birds, by Joseph Grinnell (PDF at unm.edu)
• Directory to the Bird-Life of the San Francisco Bay Region, by Joseph Grinnell and Margaret W. Wythe (PDF at unm.edu)
• A Distributional List of the Birds of California (1915), by Joseph Grinnell (PDF at unm.edu)
• Some Birds of the Fresno District, California (1913), by John G. Tyler (PDF at unm.edu)
• A Systematic List of the Birds of California (1912), by Joseph Grinnell (PDF at unm.edu)
• A-Birding on a Bronco (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1896), by Florence Merriam Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Florida Sketch-Book (1894), by Bradford Torrey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Birds of Indiana, With Illustrations of Many of the Species, by Amos W. Butler (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Birds of Kentucky (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1945), by J. D. Figgins, ed. by W. D. Funkhouser (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Birds of Michigan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1951), by Norman Asa Wood (PDF at Michigan)

• A Distributional List of the Birds of Montana, With Notes on the Migration and Nesting of the Better Known Species (1921), by Aretas A. Saunders (PDF at unm.edu)

• The Birds of Nebraska (revised edition, 2007), by Paul A. Johnsgard (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• Some Notes on Nebraska Birds (1896), by Lawrence Bruner (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)

• The Birds of Nevada (1936), by Jean M. Linsdale (PDF at unm.edu)

• Birds of New York (2 parts; Albany, NY: University of the State of New York, 1910-1914), by Elon Howard Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Breeding Birds of North Dakota, by Robert E. Stewart (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
• A Preliminary Survey of the Bird Life of North Dakota (1923), by Norman Asa Wood (PDF at Michigan)

• Managing Habitat for Grassland Birds: A Guide for Wisconsin (Madison, WI: Dept. of Natural Resources, Bureau of Integrated Science Services, 1997), by David W. Sample and Michael J. Mossman (page images at HathiTrust)

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