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| Author | : Roger S. Everett |
| Publisher | : Schiffer Pub Limited |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2007-11-07 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780764328459 |
The coast of South Carolina is a spectacular place to observe our winged friends. Many species are to be found there, both resident and those that are passing through on their annual migrations. \nThis new book, by noted bird photographer Roger Everett, captures the birds found along South Carolina's shore in beautiful, full color images. Organized by habitats, the yard, garden, woodlands, beaches, and nature reserves, the species range from common House Wrens and Chickadees to the rarer Seaside Sparrows, Caspian Terns, and Golden-Crowned Kinglets . While not a field guide, it will aid dedicated birders and casual visitors to see the aviary that surrounds them. The photographs are amplified by the authors observations and concise, informative captions. \nEnjoy hours of pleasure viewing and reading about the birds in this special area.
| Author | : David W. Nellis |
| Publisher | : Pineapple Press Inc |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9781561641918 |
Helps to identify the birds seen along the coast and presents their characteristics, ecological niche, the high degree of specialization they have developed, and their demanding habitat .
| Author | : Joan Easton Lentz |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780520243217 |
This easy-to-use handbook is a must for anyone who wants to leave behind Southern California's noisy freeways and crowded beaches in search of the wild places where birds can be found. A perfect companion for excursions from San Luis Obispo County to the Mexican border, it is designed to familiarize birdwatchers, hikers, naturalists, residents, and travelers with the appearance and behavior of 120 of the most common coastal birds. 120 color plates.
| Author | : Rebecca Farley-Brown |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Shore birds |
| ISBN | : 9781908819147 |
| Author | : Michael Patten |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 2003-08-19 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0520929446 |
The Salton Sea, California’s largest inland lake, supports a spectacular bird population that is among the most concentrated and most diverse in the world. Sadly, this crucial stopover along the Pacific Flyway for migratory and wintering shorebirds, landbirds, and waterfowl is dangerously close to collapse from several environmental threats. This book is the first thoroughly detailed book to describe the birds of Salton Sea, more than 450 species and subspecies in all. A major contribution to our knowledge about the birds of western North America, it will also be an important tool in the struggle to save this highly endangered area. Synthesizing data from many sources, including observations from their long-term work in the area, the authors’ species accounts discuss each bird’s abundance, seasonal status, movement patterns, biogeographic affinities, habitat associations, and more. This valuable reference also includes general information on the region’s fascinating history and biogeography, making it an unparalleled resource for the birding community, for wildlife managers, and for conservation biologists concerned with one of the most threatened ecosystems in western North America.
| Author | : Jennifer Ackerman |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2019-05-07 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0143134183 |
From the bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, the revised and reissued edition of her beloved book of essays describing her forays along the Delaware shore For three years, Jennifer Ackerman lived in the small coastal town of Lewes, Delaware, in the sort of blue-water, white-sand landscape that draws summer crowds up and down the eastern seaboard. Birds by the Shore is a book about discovering the natural life at the ocean's edge: the habits of shorebirds and seabirds, the movement of sand and water, the wealth of creatures that survive amid storm and surf. Against this landscape's rhythms, Ackerman revisits her own history--her mother's death, her father's illness and her hopes to have children of her own. This portrait of life at the ocean's edge will be relished by anyone who has walked a beach at sunset, or watched a hawk hover over a winter marsh, and felt part of the natural world. With a quiet passion and friendly, generous intelligence, it explores the way that landscape shapes our thoughts and perceptions and shows that home ground is often where we feel the deepest response to the planet.
| Author | : Steve N. G. Howell |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2019-08-20 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0691175012 |
A state-of-the-art photographic field guide to the world's oceanic birds Oceanic birds are among the most remarkable but least known of all birds, living at sea, far from the sight of most people. They offer unusual identification challenges—many species look similar and it can be difficult to get good views of fast-flying birds from a moving boat. The first field guide to the world's oceanic birds in more than two decades, this exciting and authoritative book draws on decades of firsthand experience on the open seas. It features clear text filled with original insights and new information and more than 2,200 carefully chosen color images that bring the ocean and its remarkable winged inhabitants to life. Never before have oceanic birds been presented in such an accessible and comprehensive way. The introduction discusses the many recent developments in seabird taxonomy, which are incorporated into the species accounts, and these accounts are arranged into groups that aid field identification. Each group and species complex has an introductory overview of its identification challenges, illustrated with clear comparative photos. The text describes flight manner, plumage variation related to age and molt, seasonal occurrence patterns, migration routes, and many other features. The result is an indispensable guide for exploring birding's last great frontier. A comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to oceanic birds Covers more than 270 species Includes more than 2,200 color photos with concise captions noting key features Features careful species comparisons, overviews of the latest taxonomy, tips on how to observe and ID birds at sea, and much more
| Author | : Peter Harrison |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1991-09-16 |
| Genre | : Birds |
| ISBN | : 9780395602911 |
This is the definitive book on the seabirds of the world, describing virtually all the known species. Illustrated in color.
| Author | : Adam Nicolson |
| Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
| Total Pages | : 419 |
| Release | : 2018-02-06 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1250134196 |
Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land." A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall, dropping by nearly 70% in the last sixty years, a billion fewer now than there were in 1950. Of the ten birds in this book, seven are in decline, at least in part of their range. Extinction stalks the ocean and there is a danger that the grand cry of the seabird colony, rolling around the bays and headlands of high latitudes, will this century become little but a memory. Seabirds have always entranced the human imagination and NYT best-selling author Adam Nicolson has been in love with them all his life: for their mastery of wind and ocean, their aerial beauty and the unmatched wildness of the coasts and islands where every summer they return to breed. The seabird’s cry comes from an elemental layer in the story of the world. Over the last couple of decades, modern science has begun to understand their epic voyages, their astonishing abilities to navigate for tens of thousands of miles on featureless seas, their ability to smell their way towards fish and home. Only the poets in the past would have thought of seabirds as creatures riding the ripples and currents of the entire planet, but that is what the scientists are seeing now today.
| Author | : Nancy Baron |
| Publisher | : Renton, Wash. : Lone Pine |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9781551050829 |
More than 200 species of common birds are grouped and color-coded for quick identification. Beautiful illustrations accompany the insightful text on behavior, seasonal occurrence and local range of species.
