Author: Peter HansardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780898154276
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The first scholarly treatment of ornithological dejecta, commonly known as bird droppings.
What Bird Did That?
Author: Peter HansardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780898154276
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The first scholarly treatment of ornithological dejecta, commonly known as bird droppings.
Why Birds Do that
Author: Michael FurtmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781595430595
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
There's little question that a life without birds around would be boring indeed. Birds provide endless fascination and entertainment for millions of people, whether we live in the city or in the country. From their evocative songs, to their sometimes complex and even comical behavior, the observation of birds not only enriches our lives, but poses many questions. For instance, why do birds sing, and why do they seem to sing mostly in the morning. Why do males of many species sport such bright colors? Why do some birds hatch naked, while others come with thick and fluffy coats of down? Why Birds Do That answers many of the common, and some not-so-common, questions about the birds that share our world.
All the Birds of North America
Author: Jack GriggsPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060527706
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A field guide to North American birds presents an identification method that uses panoramic illustrations, range maps, and an organization system based on habitat and characteristics.
What the Robin Knows
Author: Jon YoungPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547451253
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
How understanding bird language and behavior can help us to see more wildlife.
Take a Backyard Bird Walk
Author: Jane KirklandPublisher: Stillwater Publishing
ISBN: 9780970975409
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Tells readers the best way to spot birds while walking through their backyard, providing a place to sketch a map and write field notes, and introduces the characteristics and behaviors of different birds so that they may be easily identified.
Bird Sense
Author: Tim BirkheadPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140883054X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise?Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment and to interact with each other. Our affinity for birds is often said to be the result of shared senses - vision and hearing - but how exactly do their senses compare with our own? And what about a birds' sense of taste, or smell, or touch or the ability to detect the earth's magnetic field? Or the extraordinary ability of desert birds to detect rain hundreds of kilometres away - how do they do it?Bird Sense is based on a conviction that we have consistently underestimated what goes on in a bird's head. Our understanding of bird behaviour is simultaneously informed and constrained by the way we watch and study them. By drawing attention to the way these frameworks both facilitate and inhibit discovery, it identifies ways we can escape from them to seek new horizons in bird behaviour.There has never been a popular book about the senses of birds. No one has previously looked at how birds interpret the world or the way the behaviour of birds is shaped by their senses. A lifetime spent studying birds has provided Tim Birkhead with a wealth of observation and an understanding of birds and their behaviour that is firmly grounded in science.
To See Every Bird on Earth
Author: Dan KoeppelPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440627037
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
What drives a man to travel to sixty countries and spend a fortune to count birds? And what if that man is your father? Richard Koeppel’s obsession began at age twelve, in Queens, New York, when he first spotted a Brown Thrasher, and jotted the sighting in a notebook. Several decades, one failed marriage, and two sons later, he set out to see every bird on earth, becoming a member of a subculture of competitive bird watchers worldwide all pursuing the same goal. Over twenty-five years, he collected over seven thousand species, becoming one of about ten people ever to do so. To See Every Bird on Earth explores the thrill of this chase, a crusade at the expense of all else—for the sake of making a check in a notebook. A riveting glimpse into a fascinating subculture, the book traces the love, loss, and reconnection between a father and son, and explains why birds are so critical to the human search for our place in the world. “Marvelous. I loved just about everything about this book.”—Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman “A lovingly told story . . . helps you understand what moves humans to seek escape in seemingly strange other worlds.”—Stefan Fatsis, author of Word Freak “Everyone has his or her addiction, and birdwatching is the drug of choice for the father of author Dan Koeppel, who writes affectionately but honestly about his father’s obsession.”—Audubon Magazine (editor’s choice) “As a glimpse into human behavior and family relationships, To See Every Bird on Earth is a rarity: a book about birding that nonbirders will find just as rewarding.”—Chicago Tribune
Bird Songs
Author: Les BeletskyPublisher: becker&mayer! Books
ISBN: 0760363269
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
In Bird Songs, ornithologist Les Beletsky profiles 250 birds alongside colorful illustrations, and includes a digital audio player that provides the corresponding song for each of the 250 birds. Drawing from the collection of the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Bird Songs presents the most notable North American birds—including the rediscovered ivory-billed woodpecker—in a stunning format. Renowned ornithologist Les Beletsky provides a succinct description of each of the 250 birds profiled, with an emphasis on their distinctive songs. Lavish full-color illustrations accompany each account, while a sleek, built-in digital audio player holds 250 corresponding songs and calls. In his foreword, North American bird expert and distinguished natural historian Jon L. Dunn shares insights gained from a lifetime of passionate study. Complete with the most up-to-date and scientifically accurate information, Bird Songs is the first book to capture the enchantment of these beautiful birds in words, pictures, and song.
The Bird Way
Author: Jennifer AckermanPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735223033
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. “There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries –– What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communicate, forage, court, breed, survive. They are also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, abilities we once considered uniquely our own: deception, manipulation, cheating, kidnapping, infanticide, but also ingenious communication between species, cooperation, collaboration, altruism, culture, and play. Some of these extraordinary behaviors are biological conundrums that seem to push the edges of, well, birdness: a mother bird that kills her own infant sons, and another that selflessly tends to the young of other birds as if they were her own; a bird that collaborates in an extraordinary way with one species—ours—but parasitizes another in gruesome fashion; birds that give gifts and birds that steal; birds that dance or drum, that paint their creations or paint themselves; birds that build walls of sound to keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special call—and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness and the evolution of laughter. Drawing on personal observations, the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world, from the tropical rainforests of eastern Australia and the remote woodlands of northern Japan, to the rolling hills of lower Austria and the islands of Alaska’s Kachemak Bay, Jennifer Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect, in plumage, form, song, flight, lifestyle, niche, and behavior, birds vary. It is what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said, when you have seen one bird, you have not seen them all.
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior
Author: David Allen SibleyPublisher: Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
ISBN: 9781400043866
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Provides basic information about the biology, life cycles, and behavior of birds, along with brief profiles of each of the eighty bird families in North America.