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Book Synopsis Wild about Birds by : Carrol L. Henderson
Download or read book Wild about Birds written by Carrol L. Henderson and published by Minnesota's Bookstore. This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there is an abundance of information that is particularly useful to Minnesota residents, "Wild about birds" provides comprehensive species coverage for most states east of the Rocky Mountains and for provinces of central and eastern Canada. To gather information, Carrol Henderson visited three dozen families, mostly in Minnesota homes, to view their grounds and bird feeding arrangements and to photograph the birds and other wildlife at their feeders.
Book Synopsis Feeding Wild Birds in America by : Paul J. Baicich
Download or read book Feeding Wild Birds in America written by Paul J. Baicich and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, more than fifty million Americans feed birds around their homes, and over the last sixty years, billions of pounds of birdseed have filled millions of feeders in backyards everywhere. Feeding Wild Birds in America tells why and how a modest act of provision has become such a pervasive, popular, and often passionate aspect of people’s lives. Each chapter provides details on one or more bird-feeding development or trend including the “discovery” of seeds, the invention of different kinds of feeders, and the creation of new companies. Also woven into the book are the worlds of education, publishing, commerce, professional ornithology, and citizen science, all of which have embraced bird feeding at different times and from different perspectives. The authors take a decade-by-decade approach starting in the late nineteenth century, providing a historical overview in each chapter before covering topical developments (such as hummingbird feeding and birdbaths). On the one hand, they show that the story of bird feeding is one of entrepreneurial invention; on the other hand, they reveal how Americans, through a seemingly simple practice, have come to value the natural world.
Download or read book The Wild Birds written by Emily Strelow and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction Finalist for the Foreword INDIES 2018 Award for Best Fiction Cast adrift in 1870s San Francisco after the death of her mother, a girl named Olive disguises herself as a boy and works as a lighthouse keeper's assistant on the Farallon Islands to escape the dangers of a world unkind to young women. In 1941, nomad Victor scours the Sierras searching for refuge from a home to which he never belonged. And in the present day, precocious fifteen year-old Lily struggles, despite her willfulness, to find a place for herself amongst the small town attitudes of Burning Hills, Oregon. Living alone with her hardscrabble mother Alice compounds the problem--though their unique relationship to the natural world ties them together, Alice keeps an awful secret from her daughter, one that threatens to ignite the tension growing between them. Emily Strelow's mesmerizing debut stitches together a sprawling saga of the feral Northwest across farmlands and deserts and generations: an American mosaic alive with birdsong and gunsmoke, held together by a silver box of eggshells--a long-ago gift from a mother to her daughter. Written with grace, grit, and an acute knowledge of how the past insists upon itself, The Wild Birds is a radiant and human story about the shelters we find and make along our crooked paths home.
Book Synopsis Hand-taming Wild Birds at the Feeder by : Alfred G. Martin
Download or read book Hand-taming Wild Birds at the Feeder written by Alfred G. Martin and published by Alan C Hood. This book was released on 1991 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many species of wild birds can become your friends and feed from your hand. In this engaging book. Al Martin explains the techniques he developed over more than fifty years to gain the trust of wild birds. Many of Al's visitors, young and old alike, experienced the thrill of birds landing on them to receive the food they had been trained to expect! And readers of this book may look forward to similar experiences.
Book Synopsis The Audubon Society Book of Water Birds by : Les Line
Download or read book The Audubon Society Book of Water Birds written by Les Line and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1987 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Chanticleer Press edition." Includes index. 211 color photorgraphs and text explore the lifestyles and habitats of water birds all over the world.
Book Synopsis Wild about Wisconsin Birds by : Adele Porter
Download or read book Wild about Wisconsin Birds written by Adele Porter and published by Adventure Publications. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids are naturally curious, and Wild About Wisconsin Birds can help satisfy that curiosity while fostering a love of nature. Large photographs allow for simple bird identification, while the easy-to-use format - arranged by habitat and size - is filled with fun facts for kids and wildlife fans of all ages. In the backyard, at a city park or on a road trip, you'll reach for Wild About Wisconsin Birds again and again.
Book Synopsis The Joy of Bird Feeding by : Jim Carpenter
Download or read book The Joy of Bird Feeding written by Jim Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carpenter offers practical tips and solutions to attracting and identifying birds. He offers suggestions for the best foods for the birds you want to see, and even tells you how to deter unwanted guests to feeding stations. You'll also learn how to properly store bird food, and how to prevent window strikes.
Book Synopsis Infectious Disease Ecology of Wild Birds by : Jennifer C. Owen
Download or read book Infectious Disease Ecology of Wild Birds written by Jennifer C. Owen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds are the most diverse group of land vertebrates and have evolved to exploit almost every terrestrial niche on earth. They also serve as a natural reservoir for an array of different pathogens that pose serious health risks to human and domestic animal populations, including West Nile virus, highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses, Newcastle Disease virus, and numerous enteric pathogens. Avian diseases are also critically important to the conservation of endemic bird species in many places around the world. This accessible textbook focuses on the dynamics of infectious diseases for wild avian hosts across every level of ecological hierarchy, from the way pathogens interact with the physiology and behavior of individual hosts, the evolutionary and ecological dynamics of the host-parasite interactions occurring within populations, up to the complex biotic and abiotic interactions occurring within biological communities and ecosystems. Parasite-bird interactions are also increasingly occurring in rapidly changing global environments - thus, their ecology is also changing - and this shapes the complex ways by which parasites influence the inter-connected health of birds, humans, and shared ecosystems. Given the key role of birds in ecological communities more broadly, and as the primary host to so many zoonotic pathogens, an understanding of the ecological and evolutionary principles underlying the maintenance, amplification, transmission, and dispersal of these infectious agents is crucial to understanding how to mitigate the negative global impacts of the ever-increasing number of emerging infectious diseases. Although the topics and principles discussed in this book relate to birds, they have a far wider relevance and can also be applied to non-avian, wildlife host-pathogen systems. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that understanding of disease ecology in wild animal populations is paramount to global health. Infectious Disease Ecology of Wild Birds is suitable for both senior undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in avian disease ecology, ecoimmunology, ecology, and conservation. It will also appeal to the many professional parasitologists, ecoimmunologists, ornithologists, behavioural ecologists, conservation biologists, and wildlife biologists requiring a concise overview of the topic.
Book Synopsis Wild about Minnesota Birds by : Adele Porter
Download or read book Wild about Minnesota Birds written by Adele Porter and published by Adventure Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaches facts about sixty-nine species of birds native to Minnesota, including identification tips, songs and calls, life cycle, migration patterns, and favorite foods.
Book Synopsis Wild about Michigan Birds by : Adele Porter
Download or read book Wild about Michigan Birds written by Adele Porter and published by Adventure Publications. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Features: fun, engaging pages kids will love, easy-to-use format arranged by habitat and size, large photographs for simple bird identification, fun facts for kids"--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book Wild Birds written by Joanne Ryder and published by Harpercollins Childrens Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birds that glide through the sky, hop through the grass, and sing on the fence gradually come to feed from a child's hand.
Book Synopsis Red Coats and Wild Birds by : Kirsten A. Greer
Download or read book Red Coats and Wild Birds written by Kirsten A. Greer and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. While these bases helped the British project power and secure trade routes, they served more than just a strategic purpose. During their tours abroad, many British officers engaged in formal and informal scientific research. In this ambitious history of ornithology and empire, Kirsten A. Greer tracks British officers as they moved around the world, just as migratory birds traversed borders from season to season. Greer examines the lives, writings, and collections of a number of ornithologist-officers, arguing that the transnational encounters between military men and birds simultaneously shaped military strategy, ideas about race and masculinity, and conceptions of the British Empire. Collecting specimens and tracking migratory bird patterns enabled these men to map the British Empire and the world and therefore to exert imagined control over it. Through its examination of the influence of bird watching on military science and soldiers' contributions to ornithology, Red Coats and Wild Birds remaps empire, nature, and scientific inquiry in the nineteenth-century world.
Book Synopsis The Birds at My Table by : Darryl Jones
Download or read book The Birds at My Table written by Darryl Jones and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darryl Jones is fascinated by bird feeders. Not the containers supplying food to our winged friends, but the people who fill the containers. Why do people do this? Jones asks in The Birds at My Table. Does the food even benefit the birds? What are the unintended consequences of providing additional food to our winged friends? Jones takes us on a wild flight through the history of bird feeding. He pinpoints the highs and lows of the practice. And he ponders this odd but seriously popular form of interaction between humans and wild animals. Most important, he points out that we know very little about the impact of feeding birds despite millions of people doing it every day. Unerringly, Jones digs at the deeper issues and questions, and he raises our awareness of the things we don’t yet know and why we really should. Using the latest scientific findings, The Birds at My Table takes a global swoop from 30,000 feet down to the backyard bird feeder and pushes our understanding of the many aspects of bird feeding back up to new heights.
Book Synopsis Wild about Northeastern Birds by : Adele Porter
Download or read book Wild about Northeastern Birds written by Adele Porter and published by Adventure Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents facts about the different species of birds that can be found in the Northeastern states, including identification tips, songs and calls, life cycle, migration patterns, and favorite foods.
Book Synopsis Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music by : F. Mathews
Download or read book Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music written by F. Mathews and published by . This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully written and well-illustrated guide to birds' songs from 1904, Mathews describes 127 bird species, mostly of Eastern United States, and their songs. This fieldbook contains descriptions of the physical characteristics and habits of each, as well as detailed comments on their songs and calls. He includes musical scores of at least two songs for each species.
Book Synopsis Wild Birds of California by : David Lukas
Download or read book Wild Birds of California written by David Lukas and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates California's tremendous wealth of wild birds and the natural areas that sustain this abundance. A rich diversity of birds - shown throughout the seasons, throughout their life cycles, and in many habitats - are represented here in colorful images by some of the state's best wildlife photographers.
Book Synopsis Photographing Wild Birds by : Chris Gomersall
Download or read book Photographing Wild Birds written by Chris Gomersall and published by David & Charles Publishers. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practicalities of working in the field are the fundamental skills for any bird photographer. Here the author's many years of professional experience allow him to explain clearly his methods for stalking, using hides, and photographing rare birds, even in tough conditions, as well as advanced techniques such as using decoys or tapes. Each section contains a feature interview with leading international bird photographers showcasing their work and the techniques or subjects with which they are associated. An extended section of case studies shows how field techniques are put into practice to capture stunning images of many birds. Introductory chapters on equipment and creative camera techniques, and concluding chapters on post-production, including digital storage, complete this comprehensive guide.
