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Author : Barbara Mearns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Biographies for birdwatchers written by Barbara Mearns and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Rosenthal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1599216442
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Birdwatcher written by Elizabeth Rosenthal and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [2015 Reprint] Roger Tory Peterson—the Renaissance man who taught Americans the joy of watching birds—also invented the modern field guide. His 1934 landmark Field Guide to the Birds was the first book designed to go outdoors and help people identify the elements of nature. This self-proclaimed “student of nature” combined spectacular writing with detailed illustrations to ultimately publish many other books, winning every possible award and medal for natural science, ornithology, and conservation. Birdwatcher is a comprehensive, illustrated biography of Roger Tory Peterson--a hero in the conservation world--including interviews with friends, family, and protégés.
Author : Olivia Gentile
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 160819146X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Life List written by Olivia Gentile and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her four kids were nearly grown and she was about to turn 50, Phoebe Snetsinger was told she had less than a year to live. Snetsinger, a St. Louis housewife and avid backyard birder, decided to spend that year traveling the world in search of birds. As it turned out, her doctors were wrong, but Phoebe's passion had been ignited and she spent the next eighteen years crisscrossing the globe recklessly staking out her quarry. En route she contracted malaria in Zambia, nearly fell to her death in Zaire, and was kidnapped and gang raped on the outskirts of Port Moresby. Yet none of this curbed her enthusiasm. By the time she died in a bus accident while birding in Madagascar in 1999, Phoebe was world renowned and had seen more species-8,500 of the roughly 10,000-than anyone in history. A fascinating portrait of a hobbiest whose obsession contributed to both her success and her demise, Life List brings Phoebe Snetsinger and the wild world of amatuer ornithology to vivid life.
Author : Barbara Mearns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Audubon to Xántus written by Barbara Mearns and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the authors continue their research into the people behind the names started in their previous book on the European eponyms, Biographies for Birdwatchers.
Author : Mark Obmascik
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145164860X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Big Year written by Mark Obmascik and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the 1998 Big Year competition between Sandy Komito, Al Levantin, and Greg Miller, during which the three rivals risked their lives to set a new North American birding record.
Author : Stephen Moss
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1781310092
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book A Bird in the Bush written by Stephen Moss and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journey through the world of birdwatchers is “a wonderful book. . . . fascinating, often hilarious anecdotes and information” (Daily Mail, Critic’s Choice). Scholarly, authoritative, and above all supremely readable, Stephen Moss’s book is the first to trace the fascinating history of how and why people have watched birds for pleasure, from the beginnings with Gilbert White in the eighteenth century through World War II POWs watching birds from inside their prison camp and all the way to today’s “twitchers” with their bleeping pagers, driving hundreds of miles for a rare bird. “Proves that birdwatchers can be as instructive to watch as birds.” —Sunday Times “Thoroughly researched and well-written.” —The Guardian “Moss knows his subject intimately and writes about it with just the right mixture of affection and occasional quizzicality.” —Sunday Telegraph “It would be difficult to imagine anyone producing a more comprehensive, thoughtful, intelligent and entertaining examination of how people have watched birds at each point in history. In fact, it is one of the few books which might prove such compulsive reading that even a dedicated twitcher might forgo a day in the field to stay at home to finish it.” —Birding World
Author : Natasha Tabori Fried
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781599620237
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Little Big Book of Birds written by Natasha Tabori Fried and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bird lovers will flock to this whimsical celebration of the avian world. Packed with all things feathered 'The Little Big Book of Birds' offers literature, poetry, trivia, helpful tips, humour, recipes, profiles of respected birders, & advice for the seasoned birder & beginner alike.
Author : BirdNote
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1632171708
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (321 download)
Download or read book BirdNote written by BirdNote and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred entertaining and informative essays from the popular public radio feature program, BirdNote, accompanied by original illustrations throughout--an illuminating volume for bird and nature lovers across North America. Here are the best stories about our avian friends from the public radio show BirdNote, each brief essay illuminating the life, habits, or songs of a particular bird. Why do geese fly in a V-formation? Why are worms so good for you--if you're a robin? Which bird calls, "Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all?" From wrens that nest in cactuses to gulls that have a strange red dot on their bills--these digestible and fascinating bird stories are a delightful window to the winged world. A foreword by John W. Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and an introduction by Gordon Orians, professor emeritus of biology at the University of Washington, are also included. Contains web links to the audio version of each story, with bird sounds.
Author : David Allen Sibley
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525520295
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book What It's Like to Be a Bird written by David Allen Sibley and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bird book for birders and nonbirders alike that will excite and inspire by providing a new and deeper understanding of what common, mostly backyard, birds are doing—and why: "Can birds smell?"; "Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?"; "Do robins 'hear' worms?" "The book's beauty mirrors the beauty of birds it describes so marvelously." —NPR In What It's Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special, large-format volume is geared as much to nonbirders as it is to the out-and-out obsessed, covering more than two hundred species and including more than 330 new illustrations by the author. While its focus is on familiar backyard birds—blue jays, nuthatches, chickadees—it also examines certain species that can be fairly easily observed, such as the seashore-dwelling Atlantic puffin. David Sibley's exacting artwork and wide-ranging expertise bring observed behaviors vividly to life. (For most species, the primary illustration is reproduced life-sized.) And while the text is aimed at adults—including fascinating new scientific research on the myriad ways birds have adapted to environmental changes—it is nontechnical, making it the perfect occasion for parents and grandparents to share their love of birds with young children, who will delight in the big, full-color illustrations of birds in action. Unlike any other book he has written, What It's Like to Be a Bird is poised to bring a whole new audience to David Sibley's world of birds.
Author : Marie Winn
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679758461
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Red-Tails in Love written by Marie Winn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated Edition—Ten Years Later The scene of this enchanting (and true) story is the Ramble, an unknown wilderness deep in the heart of New York's fabled Central Park. There an odd and amiable band of nature lovers devote themselves to observing and protecting the park's rich wildlife. When a pair of red-tailed hawks builds a nest atop a Fifth Avenue apartment house across the street from the model-boat pond, Marie Winn and her fellow "Regulars" are soon transformed into obsessed hawkwatchers. The hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking saga of Pale Male and his mate as they struggle to raise a family in their unprecedented nest site, and the affectionate portrait of the humans who fall under their spell will delight and inspire readers for years to come.
Author : Julia Zarankin
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 : 1771622490
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder written by Julia Zarankin and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2020-09-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-five, she didn’t expect that it would change her life. Recently divorced and auditioning hobbies during a stressful career transition, she stumbled on birdwatching, initially out of curiosity for the strange breed of humans who wear multi-pocketed vests, carry spotting scopes and discuss the finer points of optics with disturbing fervour. What she never could have predicted was that she would become one of them. Not only would she come to identify proudly as a birder, but birding would ultimately lead her to find love, uncover a new language and lay down her roots. Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder tells the story of finding meaning in midlife through birds. The book follows the peregrinations of a narrator who learns more from birds than she ever anticipated, as she begins to realize that she herself is a migratory species: born in the former Soviet Union, growing up in Vancouver and Toronto, studying and working in the United States and living in Paris. Coming from a Russian immigrant family of concert pianists who believed that the outdoors were for “other people,” Julia Zarankin recounts the challenges and joys of unexpectedly discovering one’s wild side and finding one’s tribe in the unlikeliest of places. Zarankin’s thoughtful and witty anecdotes illuminate the joyful experience of a new discovery and the surprising pleasure to be found while standing still on the edge of a lake at six a.m. In addition to confirmed nature enthusiasts, this book will appeal to readers of literary memoir, offering keen insight on what it takes to find one’s place in the world.
Author : Eva Meijer
Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 1782273964
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Bird Cottage written by Eva Meijer and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel based on the true story of a remarkable woman, her lifelong relationship with birds and the joy she drew from it Len Howard was forty years old when she decided to leave her London life and loves behind, retire to the English countryside and devote the rest of her days to her one true passion: birds. Moving to a small cottage in Sussex, she wrote two bestselling books, astonishing the world with her observations on the tits, robins, sparrows and other birds that lived nearby, flew freely in and out of her windows, and would even perch on her shoulder as she typed. This moving novel imagines the story of this remarkable woman's decision to defy society's expectations, and the joy she drew from her extraordinary relationship with the natural world.
Author : Carolyn Merchant
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300215452
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Spare the Birds! written by Carolyn Merchant and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y
Author : John James Audubon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Birds of America written by John James Audubon and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500. The original configurations were altered so that there is only one species per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839).
Author : Scott Weidensaul
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0156035189
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Of a Feather written by Scott Weidensaul and published by HMH. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Audubon: A quirky, “lively and illuminating” account of bird-watching’s history, including “rivalries, controversies, [and] bad behavior” (The Washington Post Book World). From 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 conservation movement; and the luminaries with checkered pasts, such as Alexander Wilson (a convicted blackmailer) and the endlessly self-mythologizing John James Audubon. Naturalist Scott Weidensaul also recounts the explosive growth of modern birding that began when an awkward schoolteacher named Roger Tory Peterson published A Field Guide to the Birds in 1934. Today, birding counts iPod-wearing teens and obsessive “listers” among its tens of millions of participants, making what was once an eccentric hobby into something so completely mainstream it’s now (almost) cool. This compulsively readable popular history will surely find a roost on every birder’s shelf. “Weidensaul is a charming guide. . . . You don’t have to be a birder to enjoy this look at one of today’s fastest-growing (and increasingly competitive) hobbies.” —The Arizona Republic
Author : Barbara Mearns
Publisher : Helm
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Bird Collectors written by Barbara Mearns and published by Helm. This book was released on 1998 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the history and uses of bird skin collections and the explorers involved in their development. It covers all parts of the world, with particular focus on Europe, the USA and Africa.
Author : Lizzy Rockwell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0823430421
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (234 download)
Download or read book A Bird Is a Bird written by Lizzy Rockwell and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a bird? And how is it different from a mammal or a reptile? Some birds are huge and some are tiny. Some birds are fantastically colorful and some are plain. But what do all birds share? Early nonfiction expert Lizzy Rockwell explains that birds have beaks, wings, and feathers, and hatch from eggs. Other animals might have some of these features in common, but only a bird has them all. Only a bird is a bird! A clear text and beautiful illustrations cover dozens of different birds and their shared characteristics, as well as the unique qualities of unusual birds, such as penguins and peacocks.
