Author: Peter PylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
On t.p.: "A compendium of information on identifying, ageing, and sexing waterbirds, diurnal raptors, and gallinaceous birds in the hand."
Identification Guide to North American Birds: Columbidae to Ploceidae
Author: Peter PylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
On t.p.: "A compendium of information on identifying, ageing, and sexing waterbirds, diurnal raptors, and gallinaceous birds in the hand."
Bird Trapping and Bird Banding
Author: Hans BubPublisher:
ISBN: 9780801483127
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band
Author: Frances WashburnPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816530823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Opening July 4, 1969, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band follows a country western band through a summer of gigs in this novel that is equal parts mystery and community chronicle. At its core is the band's sassy lead singer and guitarist, Sissy Roberts, who must unravel a mysterious death as well as her own future in this story set in Indian Country on the verge of historic changes.
Bird Band
Author: Linda AyersPublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1632906058
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Rock Pigeon struts down the street, bopping his head and looking for some feathered friends to join his Bird Band. Discover the characteristics of pigeons, penguins, eagles, ostriches, and other birds in this fun song about the animal world.
Bird Banding Notes
Author: North American Bird Banding Manual
Author: United States. Bird Banding LaboratoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bird banding
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Waiting for a Warbler
Author: Sneed B. Collard IIIPublisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN: 0884488543
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Short listed for the Green Earth book award In early April, as Owen and his sister search the hickories, oaks, and dogwoods for returning birds, a huge group of birds leaves the misty mountain slopes of the Yucatan peninsula for the 600-mile flight across the Gulf of Mexico to their summer nesting grounds. One of them is a Cerulean warbler. He will lose more than half his body weight even if the journey goes well. Aloft over the vast ocean, the birds encourage each other with squeaky chirps that say, “We are still alive. We can do this.” Owen’s family watches televised reports of a great storm over the Gulf of Mexico, fearing what it may mean for migrating songbirds. In alternating spreads, we wait and hope with Owen, then struggle through the storm with the warbler. This moving story with its hopeful ending appeals to us to preserve the things we love. The backmatter includes a North American bird migration map, birding information for kids, and guidance for how native plantings can transform yards into bird and wildlife habitat.
Band-tailed Pigeon
Author: Worth MathewsonPublisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
"A longtime hunter in the coastal range of Oregon takes stock of his favorite prey, the band-tailed pigeon," reported "The New York Times in the summer of 2003. What made Worth Mathewson's writing about the western wilderness pigeon newsworthy is not his elegant evocation of the damp, spicy scent of a Pacific Northwest river valley before dawn or his keen observations of bandtails flying high and fast over a canyon, then folding their wings to drop into trees like gray darts. Rather the press took note of an avid hunter blaming overhunting and bad management for the devastation of a species. Wary by nature yet brave under fire, the magnificent bandtail has long thrilled the sportsman. Some attribute the bird's decline to habitat loss, but Mathewson, in this complete natural history, carefully builds his case to the contrary. While trichomoniasis and spraying of broadleaf trees may contribute, the human factor is paramount: a persistently callous attitude toward "Patagioenas fasciata may keep it in a downward spiral. If modest protections are lifted at the first signs of recovery, its fate may be sealed. "Nonhunters will likely be puzzled, perhaps irritated, by statements that some hunters love the quarry they kill," Mathewson writes. "But that is fact." With drawings by noted wildlife artist David Hagerbaumer, color photographs by the author and Margaret Thompson Mathewson, and an extensive bibliography, this finely rendered, affecting portrait of a wild bird with a troubled past is nothing short of a call to action.
Instructions for Bird Banding
Author: Frederick Charles LincolnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bird banding
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Molt in Neotropical Birds
Author: Erik I. JohnsonPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351646079
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
Molt is an important avian life history event in which feathers are shed and replaced. The timing, duration, seasonality, extent and pattern of molt follows certain strategies and this book reviews and describes these strategies for nearly 190 species based on information gathered from a 30-year study of Central Amazonian birds. Most species accounts are illustrated with several color photos focusing on wing and tail feather molt, molt limits, and how to use these patterns to accurately age birds. Published in collaboration with and on behalf of the American Ornithological Society, this volume in the highly-regarded Studies in Avian Biology series is a rich source of life history information for ornithologists working on tropical birds.