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Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behaviour (Ornithology S.)

Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behaviour (Ornithology S.)

by David Sibley

“Once in a great while, a natural history book changes the way people look at the world. In 1838, John ames Audubon’s Birds of America was one...In 1934, Roger Tory Peterson produced Field Guide to the Birds ...Now comes The Sibley Guide to Birds .” Thus did The New York Times , in 1999, greet David Allen Sibley’s monumental book, which has quickly been established nationwide as the peerless, standard bird... (more)

A Field Guide to Western Birds: A Completely New Guide to Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian and North of Mexico (Peterson Field Guides(R))

A Field Guide to Western Birds: A Completely New Guide to Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian and North of Mexico (Peterson Field Guides(R))

by Roger Tory Peterson, Virginia Marie Peterson

"The Birder"s Bible" for more than 60 years, Roger Tory Peterson"s classic Field Guide to Western Birds includes all species found in North America west of the 100th meridian and north of Mexico. Featuring the unique Peterson Identification System, Western Birds contains 165 full-color paintings that show more than 1,000 birds from 700 species. Summer and winter ranges, breeding grounds, and other special range... (more)

The Sibley Guide to Birds

by David Sibley

David Allen Sibley, America's most gifted contemporary painter of birds, is the author and illustrator of this comprehensive guide. His beautifully detailed illustrations—more than 6,600 in all—and descriptions of 810 species and 350 regional populations will enrich every birder's experience. The Sibley Guide 's innovative design makes it entirely user friendly. The illustrations are arranged to facilitate... (more)

Dance Of The Scarecrows

by Sipherd

To renowned ornithologist and bird artist Jonathan Wilder, it is a situation that becomes more and more strange with each turn of events. First, a local politician with whom he had publicly argued is found dead in a cornfield, propped up like a scarecrow. Then it is realized that the murder weapon not only is covered in Jonathan's fingerprints, but came from his house. Once he becomes the prime suspect in the... (more)

Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds

Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds

by Olivia Gentile

A frustrated housewife sets out to see more bird species than anyone in history—and ends up risking her life again and again in the wildest places on earth. Phoebe Snetsinger had planned to be a scientist, but, like most women who got married in the 1950s, she ended up keeping house, with four kids and a home in the suburbs by her mid-thirties. Numb and isolated, she turned to bird-watching, but she soon tired... (more)

Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness

Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness

by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

There are more crows now than ever. Their abundance is both an indicator of ecological imbalance and a generous opportunity to connect with the animal world. CROW PLANET reminds us that we do not need to head to faraway places to encounter "nature." Rather, even in the suburbs and cities where we live we are surrounded by wild life such as crows, and through observing them we can enhance our appreciation of the... (more)

Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings

Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings

by Suzie Gilbert

In this captivating memoir, Suzie Gilbert tells the rollicking story of how she turned her family life upside down to pursue her unusual passion for rehabilitating wild birds. Through adolescence and into adulthood, Suzie Gilbert struggled to find her calling. But when she took a job working at the animal hospital near her home in New York's Hudson Valley, her passion was born. She began bringing abused and... (more)

National Geographic Field Guide To The Birds Of North America, 4th Edition

National Geographic Field Guide To The Birds Of North America, 4th Edition

by National Geographic Society

Now in its fourth edition, the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America is the ultimate birder’s field guide. Sturdy, portable, and easy-to-use, it features the most complete information available on every bird species known to North America. This revised edition features 250 completely updated range maps, new plumage and species classification information, specially commissioned full-color... (more)

A Naturalist on a Tropical FarmAlexander Skutch

A Naturalist on a Tropical Farm

by Alexander Skutch

Birds of the WorldOliver L. Austin

Birds of the World

by Oliver L. Austin

Common Birds

by Salim Ali, Laeeq Futehally

History of Ornithology

by Valerie Chansigaud

This stunning book examines the development of ornithology from ancient times until the present day. There are chapters on ancient times, the middle ages, the renaissance, and each century from 17th until 20th. Each details the big names of the age, including the likes of the very famous Gilbert White, John James Audubon, Alfred Russell Wallace and Roger Tory Peterson, and many ornithologists reflected in bird... (more)

Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding

Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding

by Scott Weidensaul

F rom the moment Europeans arrived in North America, they were awestruck by a continent awash with birds—great flocks of wild pigeons, prairies teeming with grouse, woodlands alive with brilliantly colored songbirds. Of a Feather traces the colorful origins of American birding: the frontier ornithologists who collected eggs between border skirmishes; the society matrons who organized the first effective... (more)

Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America

Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America

by Paul Hess, Ted Floyd

Features: A complete guide to birds. Superb color photography. Up-to-date and detailed range maps. Clear and concise text. DVD of birdsongs.

Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

by Stacey O'Brien

On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl -- a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet's ability to fly was forever compromised, and he had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild. O'Brien, a young assistant in the owl laboratory at Caltech, was immediately smitten, promising to care for the... (more)

National Geographic Field Guide To The Birds Of North America, 4th Edition

by Thomas B. Allen

Field Guide to the Birds of North America Completely revised and updated, this most up-to-date bird guide on the market features more than 800 North American birds, including 80 new species. The edition is lavishly illustrated with specially commissioned, full-color illustrations, plus range maps and detailed descriptions.

A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America

A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America

by Roger Tory Peterson, Virginia Marie Peterson

Roger Tory Peterson had already made his mark with his innovative field guide when he conducted DDT research during World War II. His friend and fellow naturalist Rachel Carson built on these efforts and eventually wrote Silent Spring, a landmark text that, along with Peterson"s field guide, jump-started the modern environmental movement. By combining the tireless observation of a scientist with the imaginative... (more)

The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession

The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession

by Mark Obmascik

Every January 1, a quirky crowd storms out across North America for a spectacularly competitive event called a Big Year -- a grand, expensive, and occasionally vicious 365-day marathon of birdwatching. For three men in particular, 1998 would become a grueling battle for a new North American birding record. Bouncing from coast to coast on frenetic pilgrimages for once-in-a-lifetime rarities, they brave broiling... (more)

Guide to Field Identification of the Birds of North America

Guide to Field Identification of the Birds of North America

by Chandler S Robbins, Bertel Bruun, Herbert S Zim

340 pages

All the Birds of North America (American Bird Conservancy's Field Guide)

All the Birds of North America (American Bird Conservancy's Field Guide)

by Jack L. Griggs

A Surer, Faster, Easier Way to Identify Birds At last, a guide that successfully organizes birds by field-recognizable features for quick identification. For lack of a better method, bird guides have traditionally placed birds in evolutionary sequence, resulting in birding's classic Catch-22 -- you must recognize an unknown bird and know its place in the sequence before you can took it up! All the Birds ... (more)

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by David Sibley

by Roger Tory Peterson, Virginia Marie Peterson

by David Sibley

by Sipherd

by Olivia Gentile

by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

by Suzie Gilbert

by National Geographic Society

by Alexander Skutch

by Oliver L. Austin

by Salim Ali, Laeeq Futehally

by Valerie Chansigaud

by Scott Weidensaul

by Paul Hess, Ted Floyd

by Stacey O'Brien

by Thomas B. Allen

by Roger Tory Peterson, Virginia Marie Peterson

by Mark Obmascik

by Chandler S Robbins, Bertel Bruun, Herbert S Zim

by Jack L. Griggs