Author: John James DalgleishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
List of Occurrences of North American Birds in Europe
Author: John James DalgleishKey to North American Birds
Author: Elliott CouesCatalogue
Author: Walters, Frank, Firm, Booksellers, New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
National Geographic Complete Birds of North America
Author: Jonathan K. AlderferPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426213735
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
"Companion to National Geographic field guide to the birds of North America"--Cover.
Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists
Author: George A. CevascoPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313036497
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Casting a wide net, this volume provides personal and professional information on some 445 American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists, who lived from the late 15th century to the late 20th century. It includes explorers who published works on the natural history of North America, conservationists, ecologists, environmentalists, wildlife management specialists, park planners, national park administrators, zoologists, botanists, natural historians, geographers, geologists, academics, museum scientists and administrators, military personnel, travellers, government officials, political figures and writers and artists concerned with the environment. Some of the subjects are well known. The accomplishments of others are little known. Each entry contains a succinct but careful evaluation of the subject's career and contributions. Entries also include up-to-date bibliographies and information concerning manuscript sources.
American Ornithological Bibliography
Author: Elliott CouesPeterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America
Author: Rick Wright (Bird tour leader)Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 0547973160
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
Sparrows are as complicated as they are common. This is an essential guide to identifying 76 kinds, along with a fascinating history of human interactions with them. What, exactly, is a sparrow? All birders (and many non-birders) have essentially the same mental image of a pelican, a duck, or a flamingo, and a guide dedicated to waxwings or kingfishers would need nothing more than a sketch and a single sentence to satisfactorily identify its subject. Sparrows are harder to pin down. This book covers one family (Passerellidae), which includes towhees and juncos, and 76 members of the sparrow clan. Birds have a human history, too, beginning with their significance to native cultures and continuing through their discovery by science, their taxonomic fortunes and misfortunes, and their prospects for survival in a world with ever less space for wild creatures. This book includes not just facts and measurements, but stories--of how birds got their names and how they were discovered--of their entanglement with human history.
Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories
Author: Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geological surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
National Geographic Complete Birds of the World
Author: National Geographic Society (U.S.)Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426204036
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Offers detailed information on every bird family in the world, including their physical characteristics, behaviors, conservation status, taxonomy, and photographs of individual species.
The Emperor of Nature
Author: Patricia Tyson StroudPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812235463
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
This is the first biography of the father of descriptive ornithology, the author of American Ornithology or The Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States not given by Wilson,, an electee to the American Philosophical Society and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and last, Emperor Napoleon's nephew. Stroud, an independent scholar, uses archival sources, including unpublished letters in possession of the Bonaparte family, to tell the story of a man forced by the circumstances of his birth and by the liberality of his views to move from France, to the U.S., to Italy, and back to France. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR