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Book Synopsis Birds of the Texas Coastal Bend by : John H. Rappole
Download or read book Birds of the Texas Coastal Bend written by John H. Rappole and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas Coastal Bend is the richest bird country in North America north of the tropics, with nearly five hundred species recorded. Only Texas as a whole and California among the states can boast more species sightings than this small region.
Book Synopsis Finding Birds on the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail by : Ted L. Eubanks
Download or read book Finding Birds on the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail written by Ted L. Eubanks and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas coast offers rich avian treasures for expert birders and beginners alike, if only they know where to look. For those familiar with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s maps to the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail, this book on the Upper Texas Coast offers more—more information, more convenient and detailed maps, more pictures, more finding tips, and more birding advice from one of the trail’s creators, Ted Lee Eubanks Jr., and trail experts Robert A. Behrstock and Seth Davidson. For those new to the trail, the book is the perfect companion for learning where to find and how to bird the very best venues on this part of the Texas coast. In an opening tutorial on habitat and seasonal strategies for birding the Upper Texas Coast, the authors include tips on how to take advantage of the famous (but elusive) fallouts of birds that happen here. They then briefly discuss the basics of birding by ear and the rewards of passive birding before turning to the trail itself and each of more than 120 birding sites from the Louisiana-Texas border, through Galveston and Houston, to just south of Freeport. Advice oninding bird groups While not intended as a field identification guide, the book contains more than 175 color photographs of birds and their coastal habitat, giving readers an excellent feel for the trail’s diversity and abundance. Whether you are making your annual spring pilgrimage to Texas, leisurely traveling with the family along the coast, or wondering what to do during a layover in Houston, using this book as your guide to the trail will greatly enhance your birding experience.
Book Synopsis Birdlife of Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast by : Ted L. Eubanks
Download or read book Birdlife of Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast written by Ted L. Eubanks and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last thirty years, the Upper Texas Coast has become a “must go” destination for birders around the globe. This book will serve as an essential companion to the customary field guide and pair of binoculars for all visitors to Houston, High Island, Galveston, Freeport, or any of the area’s other exciting birding spots. It also places the birdlife of the region, a seven-county area with a larger bird list than forty-three states, into historical and ecological contexts. Authors Eubanks, Behrstock, and Weeks—all recognized authorities on the migrant and resident birds of this region—present a thorough introduction to the area’s history, physiography, and avifauna. Then, in generous discussions of bird families and species, they synthesize years of records, tracking the comings and goings of more than 480 birds and incorporating their own lifetimes of experience to create an “ornithological mosaic” of lasting significance.
Book Synopsis Birds of Southeast Texas and the Upper Texas Coast by : Gary Clark
Download or read book Birds of Southeast Texas and the Upper Texas Coast written by Gary Clark and published by Quick Reference Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds of Southeast Texas and the Upper Texas Coast: People exploring nature in Southeast Texas can use this handy photographic field guide to identify 88 bird species. The birds in the guide are grouped by family for ease in identification, and the accompanying text indicates size, habitat, field marks, and seasonal occurrence. The guides six double-sided panels fold up into a packet narrow enough to fit in a back pocket yet sturdy enough to stand up under repeated use. Lamination has made the guide waterproof. The birds included here reside, migrate through, or spend part of the year in the area from the Texas/Louisiana border to south of Freeport and including the inland Piney Woods and Coastal Prairie regions.
Book Synopsis Breeding Bird Communities in Terrestrial Habitats in the Coastal Bend Region of Texas by : Donald Woodson Woodard
Download or read book Breeding Bird Communities in Terrestrial Habitats in the Coastal Bend Region of Texas written by Donald Woodson Woodard and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Birding Trails Texas Gulf Coast by : Jim Foster
Download or read book Birding Trails Texas Gulf Coast written by Jim Foster and published by Wilderness Adventures Press. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas Gulf Coast is one of the most outstanding birding locations in North America. From whooping cranes to sandhill cranes, ducks, geese, raptors and the hundreds of song birds that migrate every year to the Texas Gulf make this a birder's paradise. There are numerous public sites that make for easy birding. Each year, during the last week of February, there is a Whooping Crane Festival in Port Aransas and Mustang Island that attracts thousands of birders. It features workshops, demonstrations, speakers, and many guided birding trips to local birding locations. Jim Foster is a noted birder. He describes each birding trail with a list of key birds, the best time of year to visit each trail, the type of terrain, size, and complete directions to each area, many with maps of each trail. Texas is one of the four best birding states in the U.S. with over 2.5 million resident birders and thousands of non-resident birders who visit the state each year. Currently there are over 51 million birders in the United States and over 20 million travel out of their state each year to view birds. Birding Trails Texas: Gulf Coast is a must book for all birders.
Download or read book Wings Over My Texas written by Carol Neel and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A non-scientific photographic study of over 200 birds, common, rare, and vagrant birds, along the Coastal Bend of South Texas. Areas include Corpus Christi, Port Aransas, the Gulf of Mexico, Brownsville, Refugio, and outlying areas. Photos are enhanced with an oil painting texture, a name plate of each individual bird. In the Photo Notes section at the back of the book, there is a listing of information of the bird, the area seen, migration path or permanent residents of South Texas. The book is aimed to help a novice birder for identification and radius of travel needed to help find them on birding day trips from the central location of Corpus Christi, Texas. ALL PHOTOS Black and White in this edition!
Book Synopsis Exploring the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail by : Mel White
Download or read book Exploring the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail written by Mel White and published by Falcon Guides. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This birding guide profiles more than 80 of the best sites and attractions along this approximately 2,110-mile trail which covers more over 41 counties along Texas's Gulf Coast, and hosts half of the 600 species found in the state.
Book Synopsis Vernal, Nocturnal, Landbird Migration in the Gulf Coastal Bend Region of Texas by : Billy Joe Forsyth
Download or read book Vernal, Nocturnal, Landbird Migration in the Gulf Coastal Bend Region of Texas written by Billy Joe Forsyth and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Plants of the Texas Coastal Bend by : Roy L. Lehman
Download or read book Plants of the Texas Coastal Bend written by Roy L. Lehman and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For everyone who studies or simply enjoys the impressive variety of wild plants that grow in the counties of Texas' coastal bend, here is an authoritative, user-friendly book that will make an excellent reference. With many years of teaching experience and field work behind them, the authors have provided well-organized, informative species accounts along with reliable identification keys for more than one thousand of the region's trees, shrubs, vines, and wildflowers. Organized by botanical class and then alphabetically by family, genus, and species, the plants are characterized by appearance, size, habit, occurrence, soil preference, flowering period if appropriate, and, in the case of non-native species, place of origin. The authors provide common names if available and additional information for rare and endangered plants. The keys are formatted to help avoid error and confusion in scientific identification and are easy and logical enough to aid amateur naturalists in identifying local wildflowers. This volume expands and updates the classic botanical work by Fred B. Jones, Flora of the Texas Coastal Bend, published in 1975 by the Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation. drawings and is accompanied by a handy CD with more than 750 color photographs.
Book Synopsis Birding Corpus Christi and the Coastal Bend by : Jamie Ritter
Download or read book Birding Corpus Christi and the Coastal Bend written by Jamie Ritter and published by Falcon Guides. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed descriptions, maps, and photos lead the bird watcher to the more than 75 sites within a two-hour drive from Corpus Christi, Texas.
Download or read book Birds of Texas written by John H. Rappole and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "W.L. Moody, Jr., natural history series ; no. 14." Guide to 622 birds found in Texas with information on habitat preferences, abundance, seasonal occurance, and more.
Download or read book Book of Texas Birds written by Gary Clark and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the knowledge and insight gained from a lifetime of watching, studying, and enjoying birds, this book is full of information about more than four hundred species of birds in Texas, most all of which author Gary Clark has seen first hand. Organized in the standard taxonomic order familiar to most birders, the book is written in a conversational tone that yields a wide-ranging discussion of each bird’s life history as well as an intimate look at some of its special characteristics and habits. Information regarding each species’ diet, voice, and nest is included as well as when and where it can be found in Texas. Magnificent photographs by Kathy Adams Clark accompany each bird’s entry. For those just beginning to watch birds to those who can fully relate to the experiences and sentiments communicated here by a veteran birder, this book reveals the kind of personal connection to nature that careful attention to the birds around us can inspire.
Book Synopsis A Birder's Guide to the Texas Coast by : Mel Cooksey
Download or read book A Birder's Guide to the Texas Coast written by Mel Cooksey and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Birder's Guide to the Texas Coast will be indispensable as your field guide to one of the world's premier birding destinations. The Texas coast is home to an amazing number of migrating and wintering birds, as well as many specialty resident and nesting species. The habitat diversity ranges from the Pineywoods to the Gulf prairies, from the coastal wetlands to the South Texas subtropics. The spring migration of neotropical birds along the coast is one of North America's most remarkable birding spectacles. And the region is host to some of the nation's largest congregations of herons, egrets, rails, shorebirds, gulls, and terns at any season. A Birder's Guide to the Texas Coast includes Species Accounts for over 170 Texas specialties, and more than 70 new sites, for a total of over 200 birding stops, as well as bar-graphs for 388 regularly occurring Texas Coast species.
Book Synopsis Naturally . . . South Texas by : Roland H. Wauer
Download or read book Naturally . . . South Texas written by Roland H. Wauer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Crescent of South Texas, a fifteen-county region along and inland from the middle Gulf Coast, is often called "the Crossroads" because of its natural diversity. Located in the heart of the Gulf Coast Prairie and Marshes, the area also encompasses the trailing edges of the South Texas Plains, Post Oak Savannah, and Blackland Prairie. This confluence of ecological zones makes it a wonderful place for birding and for observing the changing face of nature, especially during seasonal transitions. In this book, Ro Wauer describes a typical year in the natural life of South Texas. Using selected entries from his weekly column in the Victoria Advocate newspaper, he discusses numerous topics for each month, from the first appearance of butterflies in January, to alligators making a comeback in July, to the Christmas bird count in December. His observations are filled with intriguing natural history lore, from what sounds mockingbirds will imitate (almost any noise in their neighborhood) to how armadillos swim (by inflating themselves to increase their buoyancy).
Book Synopsis THE BIRDS OF TEXAS by : JOHN K. STRECKER JR.
Download or read book THE BIRDS OF TEXAS written by JOHN K. STRECKER JR. and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Birds of the Gulf Coast by : William R. Fontenot
Download or read book Birds of the Gulf Coast written by William R. Fontenot and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The moist, sultry northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico hosts a remarkably diverse bird community of more than three hundred species. Waders and seabirds, waterfowl, nightjars and owls, hummingbirds, thrushes and mimic thrushes, warblers, grosbeaks, tanagers, larks, blackbirds, sparrows, and finches all thrive in the various ecosystems of the Gulf Coast and swirl in and out with the seasons. Featuring 175 color photographs by nature photographer Brian K. Miller and essays by natural history columnist and lecturer William R. Fontenot, Birds of the Gulf Coast depicts the mystery and majesty of these beautiful creatures and highlights the importance of the region to the birds' conservation." "Together with Fontenot's essays, these photographs convey the luxuriant abundance that characterizes bird life of the Gulf Coast. This is a book that will inspire seasoned birders and novices alike to explore the region's woodlands, marshes, and beaches and discover for themselves the avian riches that await."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
