In Endangered and Disappearing Birds of the Midwest, Matt Williams profiles forty of the most beautiful and interesting birds who winter, breed, or migrate through the Midwest and whose populations are most in danger of disappearing from the region. Each profile includes the current endangered status of the species, a description of the bird's vocal and nesting patterns, and tips to help readers identify them, along with stunning color images and detailed migration maps.--COVER.

Introduction -- Northern bobwhite -- Greater prairie-chicken -- Yellow-billed cuckoo -- Black-billed cuckoo -- Whooping crane -- Piping plover -- Marbled godwit -- Red knot -- Dunlin -- Pectoral sandpiper -- Semipalmated sandpiper -- American woodcock -- Lesser yellowlegs -- Willet -- Herring gull -- Snowy owl -- Short-eared owl -- Red-headed woodpecker -- Loggerhead shrike -- Horned lark -- Bank swallow -- Wood thrush -- Evening grosbeak -- Pine siskin -- Snow bunting -- Field sparrow -- Grasshopper sparrow -- Henslow's sparrow -- Bobolink -- Eastern meadowlark -- Golden-winged warbler -- Prothonotary warbler -- Kentucky warbler -- Kirtland's warbler -- Cape May warbler -- Cerulean warbler -- Blackpoll warbler -- Prairie warbler -- Canada warbler -- Wilson's warbler.