Early Southwest Ornithologists, 1528-1900

Early Southwest Ornithologists, 1528-1900
Author: Dan Lewis Fischer
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2001-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780816521494

"Dan Fischer identifies those individuals who documented the natural history of the Southwest and summarizes their contributions to our knowledge about the region's birds - particularly through discovering and naming them. He tells why the ornithologists came to the region, what they saw, who described and named the new discoveries, and who were the first to sketch or paint new birds."--BOOK JACKET.

Molt in North American Birds

Molt in North American Birds
Author: Steve N. G. Howell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2010
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0547152353

A comprehensive examination of the molt processes (feather growth) of different species of birds, one of the most important and fundamental processes in the life history of any bird.