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How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher

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The Snow Geese

William Fiennes · 272 pages

"Every spring, millions of geese embark on an arduous three-thousand-mile migration from their winter quarters in the southern United States to their breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic. One year William Fiennes decided to go with them. Intrigued by what he'd read about the birds' amazing annual journey, Fiennes was also desperate to emerge from a period of illness and from the belief that, at

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A Field Guide to Western Birds

Roger Tory Peterson · 366 pages

A field guide to the birds of western North America -- sponsored by the National Audubon Society, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute.

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Birds of North America: A Guide to Field Identification

Chandler S. Robbins, Bertel Bruun, Herbert S. Zim · 340 pages

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The Peregrine

J.A. Baker · 208 pages

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Birds Art Life Death: A Field Guide to the Small and Significant

Kyo Maclear · 221 pages

A writer’s search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this meditation on creativity and life – a field guide to things small and significant. In 2012, Kyo Maclear met a musician with a passion for birds. Curious about what had prompted a young urban artist to suddenly embrace nature she decided to follow him for a year to find out. Observing two artists through seasonal

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Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard

Annette LeBlanc Cate · 64 pages

A conversational, humorous introduction to bird-watching featuring quirky full-color illustrations portray dozens of birds chatting about their distinctive characteristics, including color, shape, plumage, and beak and foot types.

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Birds of Europe

Lars Svensson, Dan Zetterstrom, Killian Mullarney · 448 pages

"Since it was first published a decade ago, Birds of Europe has become the definitive field guide to the diverse birdlife found in Europe. Now this superb guide has been brought fully up to date with revised text and maps along with added illustrations. Uniquely designed for easy use in the field, this expanded edition covers all 772 species found in the region as well as 32 introduced species or

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Finches and Sparrows

Peter Clement · 512 pages

This is a guide to 'true' finches and sparrows illustrating all the species, many races and most sex and age variations, with almost 950 portraits. The maps accompanying the illustrations show breeding and wintering ranges for all species. Although the guide is not primarily intended for cagebird enthusiasts, it will also be useful for those wishing to know more about the species encountered in ca

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The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human

Noah Strycker · 288 pages

"The Thing with Feathers by Noah Strycker is a fun and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world--and deep connection with humanity"--

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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America

National Geographic Society, Jon L. Dunn, Mary B. Dickinson, Erik Bloom · 464 pages

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John James Audubon

Richard Rhodes · 521 pages

"From the historian Richard Rhodes, the first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years, and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world." "Rhodes shows us young Audubon arriving in New York from France in 1803, his illegitimacy a painful secret, speaking no English but already drawing and observing birds. We see him falling i

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The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon

Jacqueline Davies · 32 pages

As a boy, John James Audubon loved to watch birds. In 1804, at the age of eighteen, he moved from his home in France to Pennsylvania. There he took a particular interest in peewee flycatchers. While observing these birds, John James became determined to answer a pair of two-thousand-year-old questions: Where do small birds go in the winter, and do they return to the same nest in the spring?

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The Life of Birds

David Attenborough · 320 pages

Companion to the PBS documentary television series on ornithology that was produced by the English naturalist and television broadcaster David Attenborough and the Natural History Unit of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Discusses bird intellect, the evolution of birds, bird achievements, breeding, and the vocal skills of birds. Includes educational resources for teachers.

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Farther Away

Jonathan Franzen · 355 pages

This collection of Franzen's non-fiction confirms his status not only as a great American novelist but also as a master noticer, social critic, and self-investigator. In 'Farther Away', he returns to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him.

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A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River

Aldo Leopold · 269 pages

First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for Americas relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the

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Bird Cloud

Annie Proulx · 261 pages

Named for a cloud that hung in the evening sky when Annie Proulx first visited, Bird Cloud is 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie with cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. She knew she had to purchase it, and what she would build there - a house in harmony with her work, her appetites and her character. This is that story, along with an enthralling natural history and archaeology

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The Avicultural Magazine, Volume 8

Avicultural Society · 382 pages

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the

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