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Vultures of the World

Author : Keith L. Bildstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501765027
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Vultures of the World written by Keith L. Bildstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vultures of the World, Keith L. Bildstein provides an engaging look at vultures and condors, seeking to help us understand these widely recognized but underappreciated birds. Bildstein's latest work is an inspirational and long overdue blend of all things vulture. Based on decades of personal experience, dozens of case studies, and numerous up-to-date examples of cutting-edge science, this book introduces readers to the essential nature of vultures and condors. Not only do these most proficient of all vertebrate scavengers clean up natural and man-made organic waste but they also recycle ecologically essential elements back into both wild and human landscapes, allowing our ecosystems to function successfully across generations of organisms. With distributions ranging over more than three-quarters of all land on five continents, the world's twenty-three species of scavenging birds of prey offer an outstanding example of biological diversity writ large. Included in the world's species fold are its most abundant large raptors—several of its longest lived birds and the most massive of all soaring birds. With a fossil record dating back more than fifty million years, vultures and condors possess numerous adaptions that characteristically serve them well but at times also make them particularly vulnerable to human actions. Vultures of the World is a truly global treatment of vultures, offering a roadmap of how best to protect these birds and their important ecology.

Vulture

Author : Katie Fallon
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 151260030X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Vulture written by Katie Fallon and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turkey vultures, the most widely distributed and abundant scavenging birds of prey on the planet, are found from central Canada to the southern tip of Argentina, and nearly everywhere in between. In the United States we sometimes call them buzzards; in parts of Mexico the name is aura cabecirroja, in Uruguay jote cabeza colorada, and in Ecuador gallinazo aura. A huge bird, the turkey vulture is a familiar sight from culture to culture, in both hemispheres. But despite being ubiquitous and recognizable, the turkey vulture has never had a book of literary nonfiction devoted to it - until Vulture. Floating on six-foot wings, turkey vultures use their keen senses of smell and sight to locate carrion. Unlike their cousin the black vulture, turkey vultures do not kill weak or dying animals; instead, they cleanse, purify, and renew the environment by clearing it of decaying carcasses, thus slowing the spread of such dangerous pathogens as anthrax, rabies, and botulism. The beauty, grace, and important role of these birds in the ecosystem notwithstanding, turkey vultures are maligned and underappreciated; they have been accused of spreading disease and killing livestock, neither of which has ever been substantiated. Although turkey vultures are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which makes harming them a federal offense, the birds still face persecution. They've been killed because of their looks, their odor, and their presence in proximity to humans. Even the federal government occasionally sanctions "roost dispersals," which involve the harassment and sometimes the murder of communally roosting vultures during the cold winter months. Vulture follows a year in the life of a typical North American turkey vulture. By incorporating information from scientific papers and articles, as well as interviews with world-renowned raptor and vulture experts, author Katie Fallon examines all aspects of the bird's natural history: breeding, incubating eggs, raising chicks, migrating, and roosting. After reading this book you will never look at a vulture in the same way again.

Vultures

Author : Michael O'Neal Campbell
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482223627
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Vultures written by Michael O'Neal Campbell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reexamines current knowledge on the evolution, ecology, and conservation biology of both New World vultures (Cathartidae) and Old World vultures (Accipitridae) and seeks answers to past and present regional extinctions, colorizations, and conservation questions. Extinct species of both families are examined, as is the disputed evidence fo

Vulture View

Author : April Pulley Sayre
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805075571
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Vulture View written by April Pulley Sayre and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces young readers to the world of the turkey vulture.

Vultures

Author : Nathan Sommer
Publisher : Bellwether Media
ISBN 13 : 1681036290
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Vultures written by Nathan Sommer and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vultures are scavengers that will eat almost anything they can find! These birds of prey are able to feed on decaying meat and trash due to special acids in their digestive system that keep them from getting sick. This title uses captivating photos and engaging facts to take striving readers into the world of these bald birds.

Vultures

Author : Sandra Markle
Publisher : Lerner Publications TM
ISBN 13 : 1728496004
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Vultures written by Sandra Markle and published by Lerner Publications TM. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using teamwork and keen eyesight, vultures soar thousands of feet above the ground in search of carrion to eat. Learn about the habits and life cycle of this iconic avian scavenger.

Vultures

Author : Kate Riggs
Publisher : The Creative Company
ISBN 13 : 1640007539
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Vultures written by Kate Riggs and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the amazing carrion-eating vulture! Introduce elementary kids to these birds of prey and their lives in the wild. With amazing eyesight and smell, and a wide wingspan, vultures are remarkable raptors that are important to a healthy ecosystem. Readers explore this bird‚Äôs behaviors, habitats, and features, including the differences between New World and Old World vultures, all with STEM-appropriate text and gorgeous photography. An end folk tale from Africa tells a story of how the vulture became bald.

Wake of Vultures

Author : Lila Bowen
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 031626430X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Wake of Vultures written by Lila Bowen and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wake of Vultures will kick your a** up one page and down the other." -- io9 Nettie Lonesome dreams of a greater life than toiling as a slave in the sandy desert. But when a stranger attacks her, Nettie wins more than the fight. Now she's got friends, a good horse, and a better gun. But if she can't kill the thing haunting her nightmares and stealing children across the prairie, she'll lose it all -- and never find out what happened to her real family. Wake of Vultures is the first novel of the Shadow series featuring the fearless Nettie Lonesome. The Shadow seriesWake of VulturesConspiracy of Ravens

Vultures of the World

Author : Keith L. Bildstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501765035
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Vultures of the World written by Keith L. Bildstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vultures of the World, Keith L. Bildstein provides an engaging look at vultures and condors, seeking to help us understand these widely recognized but underappreciated birds. Bildstein's latest work is an inspirational and long overdue blend of all things vulture. Based on decades of personal experience, dozens of case studies, and numerous up-to-date examples of cutting-edge science, this book introduces readers to the essential nature of vultures and condors. Not only do these most proficient of all vertebrate scavengers clean up natural and man-made organic waste but they also recycle ecologically essential elements back into both wild and human landscapes, allowing our ecosystems to function successfully across generations of organisms. With distributions ranging over more than three-quarters of all land on five continents, the world's twenty-three species of scavenging birds of prey offer an outstanding example of biological diversity writ large. Included in the world's species fold are its most abundant large raptors—several of its longest lived birds and the most massive of all soaring birds. With a fossil record dating back more than fifty million years, vultures and condors possess numerous adaptions that characteristically serve them well but at times also make them particularly vulnerable to human actions. Vultures of the World is a truly global treatment of vultures, offering a roadmap of how best to protect these birds and their important ecology.

A Vulture Landscape

Author : Ian Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849954570
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book A Vulture Landscape written by Ian Parsons and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vulture Landscape is more than just a book about vultures, in the same way that these majestic flyers are more than just birds. Vultures are a crucial part of many of the world's ecosystems, and without these specialist environmental cleansers the ecosystems wouldn't work properly. A calendar year in the lives of these gargantuan raptors is explored as they live, breed, feed and fly with effortless ease across the skies of the vulture landscape that is Extremadura in central Spain.There are four species of vulture in Europe, and a fifth that is becoming more of a regular visitor as its own global population plummets. The serious conservation issues faced on a day-to-day basis by these species, and their relatives spread across the globe, are explored, issues that in many cases threaten their very survival. However, this book is a celebration of the vulture and the landscape in which it reigns.Using the latest science, his keen eye and his passion for the birds themselves, the author takes the reader on a journey, introducing readers to the vultures, their lives and their landscape. Along the way, much of the other wonderful wildlife of the vulture landscape, from exotic Bee-eaters and bewitching Montagu's Harriers to rutting Red Stags as well as some very excitable cattle, are included. Ian explains how watching vultures is not only addictive, but that it can often lead to vulture gazing, surely the most relaxing form of bird watching there is!

Vultures and Other Birds

Author : Tracie Santos
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1731640528
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Vultures and Other Birds written by Tracie Santos and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Features: • 32 Pages, 7 inches x 9 inches • Ages 8-13, Grades 3-8 Leveled Readers, Lexile 520L • Simple, easy-to-read pages with vibrant images • Features exciting facts about birds to engage early readers • Includes glossary words, after-reading questions, an extension activity, and a memory game The Magic Of Reading: Introduce your child to the magic of reading and animals with Dangerous...Or Not? Vultures and Other Birds. This 32-page book has vibrant photographs and captivating information on different types of birds. Fun Animal Facts: Are these animals dangerous or do they have a bad reputation? Learn more about different species of birds in this animal book, including their habitats, signs that they may pose a threat, and their role within the animal kingdom. Features: More than just a book about birds and animal safety, this kid’s book includes a glossary of vocabulary words, a memory game for mid-text interaction, an extension activity, plus after-reading questions for comprehension skills. Leveled Books: Vibrant photographs and leveled text work together to engage readers and promote reading comprehension skills. This leveled book engages 3rd—8th graders through new vocabulary and high-interest topics like animals that fly. Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

Vulture

Author : Thom van Dooren
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861898067
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Vulture written by Thom van Dooren and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simply because they are large scavenging birds, vultures are often viewed as harbingers of death. But, as Thom van Dooren shows in this cultural and natural history, that dominant association leaves us with a very one-dimensional understanding of a group of actually rather fascinating and diverse creatures. Vulture offers an enlightening new history of this much-misunderstood bird. Vultures vary in type and size, and while some have a diet mainly of bone, others are actually almost completely vegetarian. Most interesting, despite its notorious association with death, the vulture very rarely, if ever, kills for itself. In different cultural mythologies, vultures play a role in disposing of the dead and officiating over human sacrifices, but they have often been viewed as courageous and noble creatures as well—believed to be indispensable in the containment of waste and disease and even to be world creators and divine mothers. Van Dooren explores these many histories, from some of the earliest-known Neolithic sites in which vultures are thought to have consumed the dead to contemporary efforts to reintroduce the bearded vulture into the Alps. Highlighting the rich diversity of vultures and the many ways in which people have understood and lived with them, Vulture invites a new appreciation and wonder for these incredible birds.

Vick's Vultures

Author : Scott Warren
Publisher : Parvus Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780997661316
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Vick's Vultures written by Scott Warren and published by Parvus Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the far future, alien technology captured by the union earth privateers has fueled Earth's tenuous expansion from a single planet to a handful of systems across the Orion Spur.

Tales of Kaimere

Author : Keenan Taylor
Publisher : Keenan Taylor
ISBN 13 : 9781087919560
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Kaimere written by Keenan Taylor and published by Keenan Taylor. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of Kaimere is an anthology of fantasy short stories and novellas. All are written and illustrated by Keenan Taylor. These adventure stories explore love and loss, revenge, and coming of age, and include elements of thriller, romance, and horror. Kaimere is a distant planet much like Earth, but with an ecosystem influenced by waves of life taken from our world and introduced to the native magic. This magic is diverse and chaotic, taking the form of calculating forest spirit Indrakai in Trickster's Gambit, the essence of luck that aids Argunite in Koban's Menagerie, or a malicious demon that hunts the protagonists of Spider's Prey. This book includes the four short stories of the paperback edition, and also a hardcover exclusive, Drowned in Water and Blood, which follows Nasiri the Hunter. Each story can be experienced independently, or read in sequence. However you choose, please enjoy this introduction to Kaimere: a realm of wonder, danger, and magic.

V is for Vulture

Author : DK
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0241471710
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book V is for Vulture written by DK and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn storytime into a fun learning experience with this charming alphabet book about vultures! Introduce your little one to the vulnerable lives of endangered vultures! This gorgeously illustrated children’s book teaches kids vulture-related first words beginning with the letter V. Get ready to meet fascinating vultures! The friendly, read-aloud text and exciting illustrations will capture the attention of young nature-lovers in no time. Babies and toddlers will love learning new words about vultures while practicing their V letter sound. This baby book is ideal for promoting early learning and language development. V is for vertebrate! Did you know that a vulture has a backbone? Packed with bright pictures and short text, this engaging animal book provides curious kids with lots to talk about and look at! Explore the Very Interesting World of Vultures Prepare your child for the magic of reading! Filled with simple, playful facts, V is for Vulture is the perfect ABC book for toddlers aged 0-3 years. They’ll learn about the different types of vultures, from the king vulture to the palm nut vulture, and discover how they communicate with each other. It’s a must-have for every young child’s library! Complete the Series: Introduce little ones to the ABCs of the animal kingdom with DK’s brand new, beautifully illustrated alphabet series. From V is for Vulture and X is for X-ray Fish all the way up to G is for Giraffe and H is for Hedgehog, these baby board books are perfect for parents wanting to support young children’s interest in nature, animals, and the alphabet.

The Vultures

Author : Mark Hannon
Publisher : Apprentice House
ISBN 13 : 9781627203111
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Vultures written by Mark Hannon and published by Apprentice House. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970s rust belt Buffalo, jobs are disappearing, people are leaving--and the football franchise owner demands a new stadium or he'll move the beloved team. Developers make an incredible offer - a new development that will turn the city around, complete with a domed stadium for the team. Politicians flock onto the project, but their support comes with a price. Veteran detective Pat Brogan ("Every Man for Himself") is sent by the District Attorney to investigate, and he and wife Rita have trouble at home--one son in Vietnam and another in college where the anti-war protests are turning violent. In a society and a family that are coming apart, World War II veteran Brogan must handle the changes or lose everything that's precious to him.

Vultures' Picnic

Author : Greg Palast
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101558628
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Vultures' Picnic written by Greg Palast and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either. This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed on the weak and ruin our planet in the process-a story that spans the globe and decades. For Vultures' Picnic, investigative journalist Greg Palast has spent his career uncovering the connection between the world of energy (read: oil) and finance. He's built a team that reads like a casting call for a Hollywood thriller-a Swiss multilingual investigator, a punk journalist, and a gonzo cameraman-to reveal how environmental disasters like the Gulf oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, and lesser-known tragedies such as Tatitlek and Torrey Canyon are caused by corporate corruption, failed legislation, and, most interestingly, veiled connections between the billionaires of financial industry and energy titans. Palast shows how the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, and Central Banks act as puppets and bandits for Big Oil. With Palast at the center of an investigation that takes us from the Arctic to Africa to the Amazon, Vultures' Picnic shows how the big powers in the money and oil game slip the bonds of regulation over and over again, and simply destroy the rules that they themselves can't write-and take advantage of nations and everyday people in the process.