Lists of Fauna of Kansas - List of Birds of Kansas (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The List of Kansas birds lists every wild bird species ever seen in the U.S. state of Kansas, based on the list published by the Kansas Birds Records Committee of the Kansas Ornithological Society. The following markings are used. Birds listed as either accidental or hypothetical should not be expected to be found anywhere in Kansas with regularity. Except for the accidental and hypothetical birds, only birds that are considered to have established, self-sustaining, wild populations in Kansas or, in the case extinct or extirpated species, have had such populations in Kansas in the past are included on this list. This means that birds that are considered probable escapees, although they may have been sighted flying free in Kansas, are not included on this list. This list is presented in taxonomic order and follows The Check-list of North American Birds (7th ed., 1998), published by the American Ornithologists' Union. The family accounts at the beginning of each heading reflect this taxonomy, as do the species counts found in each family accounts. Introduced, casual, accidental, hypothetical, extirpated and extinct species are included in the total species counts for North America and Kansas. Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae Canada Goose Female Mallard in flight. Pair of Green-winged Teal, male at rear. Hooded MerganserThe family Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swan. These are birds that are modified for an aquatic existence with webbed feet, bills which are flattened to a greater or lesser extent, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to special oils. There are 131 species world wide, 61 North American species, and 43 Kansas species. Order: Galliformes Family: Phasianidae Ruffed ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1827222