Wings & Words: Exploring UA's Avian Heritage

Birds featured in the exhibit
Includes links to All About Birds database from Cornell University. 

• Sprague’s pipit (anthus spragueii)

• Golden x Lady Amhurst pheasant (hybrid)

• American wood cock (philohela minor)

• Bobwhite (colinus virginianus)

• Northern Oriole ("Bullock’s") (icterus bullockii)

• Double-crested cormorant (phalacrocorax auritus)

• American coot (fulica americana)

• Tufted puffin (lunda cirrh)

• Red-throated loon (avia stellata)

• Common loon (gavia immer)

• Nightingale (luscinia megarhynchos)

• Florida scrub jay (aphelocoma coerulescens)

• Greater bird of paradise (paradisaea apoda)

• Altamira (Lichtenstein’s) oriole (icterus gularis)

• European robin (erithacus rubecula)

• Great horned owl (bubo virginianus)

• Hairy woodpecker (dryobates villosus)

• Lewis’ woodpecker (melanerpes lewis)

• Red-bellied woodpecker (melanerpes carolinus)

• Red-headed woodpecker (melanerpes erythrocephalus)

• Red-tailed hawk (buteo jamaicensis)

• Ruddy duck (oxyura jamaicensis)

Books featured in the exhibit
Includes links to UA Libraries catalog at The University of Akron.

• The original water-color paintings by John James Audubon for The birds of America : reproduced in color for the first time from the collection at the New-York Historical Society, volumes 1 and 2 / introd. by Marshall B. Davidson
• Penguins, puffins, and auks : their lives and behavior : a photographic study of the North American and Antarctic species / text by William Ashworth; photographs and drawings by Art Wolfe
• Studer's popular ornithology : the birds of North America. / Theodore Jasper
• Exotic birds: parrots, birds of paradise, toucans
• Diving birds of North America / Paul A. Johnsgard
• Gli Uccelli di John Gould / John Gould's birds / [translated text by Maureen Lambourne]
• Birds' eggs / Michael Walters; photography by Harry Taylor
• The bird : master of flight / Colin Harrison, Howard Loxton
• American birds in color : land birds / by Hal. H. Harrison
• A field guide to birds' nests of 285 species found breeding in the United States east of the Mississippi River / text and color photos. by Hal H. Harrison; bird sketches by Ned Smith
• The first book of birds / Margaret Williamson
• The bird illustrated, 1550-1900 : from the collections of the New York Public Library / introduction by Roger Tory Peterson ; text by Joseph Kastner
• Audubon's Birds of America / [edited] by Roger Tory Peterson & Virginia Marie Peterson
• National Audubon Society field guide to North American birds. Western region / Miklos D.F. Udvardy ; revised by John Farrand, Jr.
• All the birds of North America : American bird conservancy's field guide / concept and design by Jack L. Griggs
• Birding in Ohio / by Tom Thomson with the assistance of 38 regional contributors
• Birds of the Cleveland region : a check list of species reported within approximately 30 miles of the Cleveland Public Square / edited by Arthur B. Williams
• Atlas of breeding birds in Pennsylvania / Daniel W. Brauning, editor
• The birds of Ohio / by Bruce G. Peterjohn ; original paintings by William Zimmerman