Author: Peter HaymanPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0713635096
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This is a review of the whole family of waders.
Shorebirds
Author: Peter HaymanPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0713635096
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This is a review of the whole family of waders.
Birds by the Shore
Author: Jennifer AckermanPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143134183
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
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.
Shorebirds
Author: Jan van de KamPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004277994
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Shorebirds are the most visible inhabitants of coastal wetlands worldwide. Many undertake spectacularly long flights between their wintering and breeding grounds, embodying the miracle of long-distance migration in a profound way. In this illustrated behavioural ecology the migration, feeding and breeding of these birds are explained in a comprehensive but simple and visually stunning form. The core of the book is based on studies of shorebirds and other waterbirds (such as ducks, geese and gulls) that migrate along the East Atlantic Flyway. The emphasis is on those using the Dutch, German and Danish Wadden Sea; examples from the rest of the world are also included. The authors are experts in the fields of bird migration, shorebird behaviour and intertidal ecology, and have contributed much to our current understanding of these subjects. The 300 magnificent portraits of waterbirds in action were taken by Jan van de Kam, one of The Netherlands' foremost wildlife photographers.
Birds of the Jersey Shore
Author: Jonah PerelmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780464149767
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Discover the birds of the Jersey Shore from your living room. New Jersey provides the most varied and exciting birding in North America! Birds of the Jersey Shore provides a comprehensive overview of the birds that breed or migrate during the spring in New Jersey. Featuring dozens of color photos that reveal the rarities and regulars of the Jersey Shore in the spring. This book is not only directed at birders and nature enthusiasts, but any one interested in the hidden beauty of the Jersey Shore.
Birds of Coastal South Carolina
Author: Roger S. EverettPublisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780764328459
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
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.
I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird
Author: Susan CeruleanPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820357383
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Susan Cerulean’s memoir trains a naturalist’s eye and a daughter’s heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time, the book explores an activist’s lifelong search to be of service to the embattled natural world. During the years she cared for her father, Cerulean also volunteered as a steward of wild shorebirds along the Florida coast. Her territory was a tiny island just south of the Apalachicola bridge where she located and protected nesting shorebirds, including least terns and American oystercatchers. I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird weaves together intimate facets of adult caregiving and the consolation of nature, detailing Cerulean’s experiences of tending to both. The natural world is the “sustaining body” into which we are born. In similar ways, we face not only a crisis in numbers of people diagnosed with dementia but also the crisis of the human-caused degradation of the planet itself, a type of cultural dementia. With I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird, Cerulean reminds us of the loving, necessary toil of tending to one place, one bird, one being at a time.
Introduction to Birds of the Southern California Coast
Author: Joan Easton LentzPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520243217
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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.
Red Knot
Author: Nancy Carol WillisPublisher:
ISBN: 9780966276152
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes the 20,000-mile annual migration of a shorebird called a Red knot, from the tip of South America to the Arctic tundra nesting grounds and back.
Sea and Shore Birds Coloring Book
Author: Ruth SofferPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486408057
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Forty-three accurate images: American flamingo, osprey, double-crested cormorant, brown pelican, Atlantic puffin, and other avian creatures -- all described in fact-filled captions.
Common Coastal Birds of Florida and the Caribbean
Author: David W. NellisPublisher: Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN: 9781561641918
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
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 .