I have not included on this website any birds that I have not personally observed and photographed. However, to understand as much about each bird as possible, I have researched many excellent reference books and have listed them below. It is from them that I have learned many statistics and facts about a species I might not have discovered on my own.
A Field Guide to the Birds, by Roger Tory Peterson, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1980
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2001
Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds, by John K. Terres, Wings Books, Avenel, NJ, 1956
Audubon Society Field Guild to North American Birds, Eastern Region, by John Bull and John Farrand, Jr., Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1977
Cranes, A Natural History of a Bird in Crisis, by Janice M. Hugles, Firefly Books, B uffalo, 1958
Florida Birds, A Field Guide and Reference, Second Edition, by David S. Maehr and Herbert W. Kale II, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, FL, 2005
Florida’s Fabulous Birds, by Winston Williams, World Publications, Tampa, FL, 2003
Florida’s Fabulous Waterbirds, by Winston Williams, World Publications, Tampa, FL, 2003
Long-Legged Wading Birds of the North American Wetlands, by Lucian Niemeyer and Mark Rieger, Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, PA, 1993
National Audubon Society The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior, Illustrated by David Allen Sibley, Edited by Chris Elphick, John B. Dunning Jr., and David Allen Sibley, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2001
National Audubon Society The Sibley Guide to Birds, by David A. Sibley, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2000
National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, Edited by Jonathasn Alderfer, National Geographic, Washington, D.C.
Photographic Guide to the Shorebirds of the World, by David Rosair and David Cottridge, Facts of File, New York, 1995
The Herons Handbook, by James Hancock and James Kushlan, Harper and Row, 1984
The Wading Birds of North America, by Allan W. Eckert and Karl E. Karalus, Doubleday, New York, 1981
Common Coastal Birds of Florida and the Caribbean, by David W. Nellis, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, 2001
The Bird Almanac, by David M. Bird, Firefly Books, Buffalo, 2004
Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds by Christopher Perkins, Firefly Books, Buffalo, 2003