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  The Sibley Guide to Birds

  by David Allen 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)
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  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)
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  National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America

  by Jon Dunn, Jonathan K. Alderfer, Thomas B. Allen

  Birding is the fastest growing wildlife-related activity in the U.S., and even conservative estimates put the current number of U.S. birders at 50 million. According to the New York Times, some authorities predict that by 2050 there will be more than 100 million—and the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America will be the essential reference for field identification and the cornerstone of... (more)
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  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)
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  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)
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  The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behaviour

  by David Allen 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)
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  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)
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  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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  Guide to a Well-Behaved Parrot

  by Matthew M. Vriends, Mattie Sue Athan, Ph. D. Vriends, Matthew M.

  Updated explanations of time-tested approaches to common parrot behavior problems such as screaming, biting, and feather chewing. This revised second edition includes appropriate care for the bird who spends the day alone, what to do when your bird flies away, and a new section on disaster preparations. A long-time bestseller, this attractive book also provides instructions for grooming, bathing, communication,... (more)
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  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)
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  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)
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  Birds of North America

  A Guide To Field Identification

  by Herbert S. Zim, Chandler S. Robbins, Bertel Bruun, Arthur Singer

  Spot the silhouette of a Northern Goshawk in flight. Identify the raucous call of the Red-winged Blackbird. Discover the secret of picking out a Chipping Sparrow from its look-alike cousins. It's simple with this classic field guide, a treasured favorite among amateur bird lovers and exacting professionals. Recognized as the authority on bird identification, this invaluable resource provides: -All of North... (more)
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  Birds: Their Life, Their Ways, Their World

  by Christopher Perrins

  Beautiful pictures of birds and their descriptions.
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  Manual of Ornithology: Avian Structure and Function

  by Noble S. Proctor

  This book-a visual guide to the structure and anatomy of birds-is one of the most heavily illustrated ornithology references ever written. A concise atlas of avian anatomy, it contains more than 200 specially prepared, accurate, and clear drawings that include material never illustrated before. The text is as informative as the drawings; written at a level appropriate to undergraduate students and to bird lovers... (more)
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  A Wing in the Door: Life With a Red-Tailed Hawk (The World As Home Series)

  by Peri Phillips McQuay

  Illegally plucked from her nest when only a month old to be trained for falconry, Merak is two when finally released. She isn’t used to foraging for herself, however, and wanders into a nearby town. As Peri McQuay quickly learns, this human-imprinted hawk is not quite ready for the wild. As Merak’s caretakers, the McQuays try to coax the bird to independence. In journal form, Peri McQuay writes about her life with... (more)
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  On the Wing : In Flight With a Peregrine Falcon

  by Alan Tennant

  In this extraordinary journey, Alan Tennant recounts his attempt to track the transcontinental migration of the majestic peregrine falcon — an investigation no one before him had ever taken to such lengths. From the windswept flats of the Texas barrier islands to the Artic and then south again into the Caribbean, On the Wing provides a hilariously picaresque and bumpy flight.
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  The Book of Indian Birds

  by Sâlim Ali

  For over 50 years The Book of Indian Birds has been a close companion of both amateur bird-watching enthusiasts and seasoned ornithologists in India. This much-awaited new edition covers 538 species and includes the extensive changes in the scientific and common bird names that have taken place since the last revision in 1996, providing uniformity and allowing birdwatchers to communicate more easily with one... (more)
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  Consider the Birds

  by Colin Tudge

  Explores the life of birds, all around the globe. This title offers an account from the secrets of migration to their complicated family lives, their differing habitats and survival techniques to the secrets of flight, how birds live, why they matter, and whether they really are dinosaurs.
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  Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

  by Christopher Cokinos

  A prizewinning poet and nature writer weaves together natural history, biology, sociology, and personal narrative to tell the story of the lives, habitats, and deaths of six extinct bird species.
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  Collins Bird Guide

  by David Christie, Dan Zetterstrom, Killian Mullarney, Lars Svensson

  "Collins Bird Guide" provides all the information needed to identify any species at any time of the year, with detailed text on size, habitat, range, identification and voice. Accompanying every species entry is a distribution map and illustrations showing the species in all the major plumages (male, female, immature, in flight, at rest, feeding).