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Author : Roger Collier
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book Birds, Birders & Birdwatching, 1899-1999 written by Roger Collier and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Gooders
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Bird-watchers' Book written by John Gooders and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Florence Merriam Bailey
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ISBN 13 : 9783744758918
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book Birds Through an Opera-Glass written by Florence Merriam Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds Through an Opera-Glass is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author : SETON P. GORDON
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ISBN 13 : 9781033294277
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book BIRDS OF THE LOCH AND MOUNTAIN written by SETON P. GORDON and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Libby Robin
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 064309606X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Boom & Bust written by Libby Robin and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2009 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on the natural history of Australia's charismatic birds to explore the relations between fauna, people and environment.
Author : Mabel Osgood Wright
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Birdcraft written by Mabel Osgood Wright and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicolas Day
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
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Download or read book Birds of Australia written by Nicolas Day and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: Field guide to the birds of Australia. 5th ed. Ringwood, Victoria, Australia: Penguin Books Australia, 1996.
Author : Thomas R. Dunlap
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199912696
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book In the Field, Among the Feathered written by Thomas R. Dunlap and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is a nation of ardent, knowledgeable birdwatchers. But how did it become so? And what role did the field guide play in our passion for spotting, watching, and describing birds? In the Field, Among the Feathered tells the history of field guides to birds in America from the Victorian era to the present, relating changes in the guides to shifts in science, the craft of field identification, and new technologies for the mass reproduction of images. Drawing on his experience as a passionate birder and on a wealth of archival research, Thomas Dunlap shows how the twin pursuits of recreation and conservation have inspired birders and how field guides have served as the preferred method of informal education about nature for well over a century. The book begins with the first generation of late 19th-century birdwatchers who built the hobby when opera glasses were often the best available optics and bird identification was sketchy at best. As America became increasingly urban, birding became more attractive, and with Roger Tory Peterson's first field guide in 1934, birding grew in both popularity and accuracy. By the 1960s recreational birders were attaining new levels of expertise, even as the environmental movement made birding's other pole, conservation, a matter of human health and planetary survival. Dunlap concludes by showing how recreation and conservation have reached a new balance in the last 40 years, as scientists have increasingly turned to amateurs, whose expertise had been honed by the new guides, to gather the data they need to support habitat preservation. Putting nature lovers and citizen-activists at the heart of his work, Thomas Dunlap offers an entertaining history of America's long-standing love affair with birds, and with the books that have guided and informed their enthusiasm.
Author : Roger Safford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472982894
Total Pages : 1025 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Birds of Africa: Volume VIII written by Roger Safford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 1025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universally recognised as by far the most authoritative work ever published on the subject, The Birds of Africa is a superb multi-contributor reference work, with encyclopaedic species texts, stunning paintings of all species and numerous subspecies, informative line drawings, detailed range maps, and extensive bibliographies. Each volume contains an Introduction that brings the reader up to date with the latest developments in African ornithology, including the evolution and biogeography of African birds. Diagnoses of the families and genera, often with superspecies maps, are followed by the comprehensive species accounts themselves. These include descriptions of range and status, field characters, voice, general habits, food, and breeding habits. Full bibliographies, acoustic references, and indexes complete this scholarly work of reference. This eighth and final volume covers the Malagasy region which comprises Madagascar and the various islands and archipelagos of the Indian Ocean including the Seychelles, the Comoros, Mauritius and Réunion. Every resident and migrant species is covered in full detail, comparable to other volumes in the series, and with a colour map for each species. Vagrants are treated in less detail. All species are illustrated on a beautiful series of 64 colour plates, with original artwork from John Gale and Brian Small. This is a major work of reference on the birds of the region and will remain the standard text for many years to come.
Author : Jim Robbins
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679645675
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wonder of Birds written by Jim Robbins and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating investigation into the miraculous world of birds and the powerful—and surprising—ways they enrich our lives and sustain the planet Our relationship to birds is different from our relationship to any other wild creatures. They are found virtually everywhere and we love to watch them, listen to them, keep them as pets, wear their feathers, even converse with them. Birds, Jim Robbins posits, are our most vital connection to nature. They compel us to look to the skies, both literally and metaphorically; draw us out into nature to seek their beauty; and let us experience vicariously what it is like to be weightless. Birds have helped us in so many of our human endeavors: learning to fly, providing clothing and food, and helping us better understand the human brain and body. And they even have much to teach us about being human in the natural world. This book illuminates qualities unique to birds that demonstrate just how invaluable they are to humankind—both ecologically and spiritually. The wings of turkey buzzards influenced the Wright brothers’ flight design; the chickadee’s song is considered by scientists to be the most sophisticated language in the animal world and a “window into the evolution of our own language and our society”; and the quietly powerful presence of eagles in the disadvantaged neighborhood of Anacostia, in Washington, D.C., proved to be an effective method for rehabilitating the troubled young people placed in charge of their care. Exploring both cutting-edge scientific research and our oldest cultural beliefs, Robbins moves these astonishing creatures from the background of our lives to the foreground, from the quotidian to the miraculous, showing us that we must fight to save imperiled bird populations and the places they live, for the sake of both the planet and humankind. Praise for The Wonder of Birds “A must-read, conveying much necessary information in easily accessible form and awakening one’s consciousness to what might otherwise be taken for granted . . . The Wonder of Birds reads like the story of a kid let loose in a candy store and given free rein to sample. That is one of its strengths: the convert’s view gives wide appeal to those who might never have known birds well.”—Bernd Heinrich, The Wall Street Journal “Engaging, thoughtful . . . worthy of a place alongside David Attenborough’s documentary The Life of Birds or Graeme Gibson’s The Bedside Book of Birds . . . This offering will appeal to naturalists, anthropologists, linguists, and even philosophers as well as to lay readers.”—Library Journal “In this deeply felt and well-supported argument for avians’ value to humankind, science writer Robbins hits the full trifecta for engrossing and satisfying nature writing.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Using enchanting stories and rich historical references, Jim Robbins explores the role of birds on the evolution of human self-awareness.”—Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “It’s one for the birds—what a wonderful book! It will give you wings.”—Rita Mae Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Rubyfruit Jungle “The Wonder of Birds provides a great and well-timed gift: a portrait of the quiet miracles around us on each day of our ordinary lives.”—Michael Punke, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant “Jim Robbins writes masterfully, with lucid prose and deep insight into the human psyche and natural world.”—Peter Stark, author of Astoria
