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Author: Jon Fjeldså Publisher: ISBN: 9788416728336 Category : Languages : en Pages : 445
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Based on the latest phylogenetic studies, this book reveals the remarkable new history of how passerines diversified and dispersed across the entire world.
Author: Jon Fjeldså Publisher: ISBN: 9788416728336 Category : Languages : en Pages : 445
Book Description
Based on the latest phylogenetic studies, this book reveals the remarkable new history of how passerines diversified and dispersed across the entire world.
Author: Marlys Adler Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1496920295 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 167
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The complexities of the human spirit reflect a variety of voices echoing throughout this garden we call life. These are our voices this is our song.
Author: Sara Swan Miller Publisher: ISBN: 9780531159460 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 47
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Introduces passerines, also known as perching birds, a special order of birds characterized particularly by their self-locking feet; includes descriptions of fourteen species and advice for observing them in nature.
Author: Katrina van Grouw Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691151342 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 304
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There is more to a bird than simply feathers. And just because birds evolved from a single flying ancestor doesn't mean they are structurally the same. With 385 stunning drawings depicting 200 species, The Unfeathered bird is a richly illustrated book on bird anatomy that offers refreshingly original insights into what goes on beneath the feathered surface.
Author: Publisher: Dawn Publications (CA) ISBN: 9781584696131 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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"Introduces children to various types of bird feet. Each type is perfectly adapted to help a bird find food and escape predators in different habitats including: pond, river, desert, forest, and meadow"--
Author: Douglas J. Futuyma Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691264635 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 320
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"Why are male birds often so brightly colored? Why do some birds lay more eggs than others? Will bird species adapt to climate change? In How Birds Evolve, Douglas Futuyma invites readers into the amazing world of bird evolution to answer these and other questions. Futuyma's goal in this book is not to offer a comprehensive evolutionary history of birds, but to explore how the processes of evolution produced the distinctive features and behaviors we observe in birds today as well as their impressive diversity. Using one or two birds per chapters as a lens into broader questions, Futuyma explores how a bird's evolutionary history helps us understand the diversity of species and the bird tree of life and how natural selection explains most of the characteristics of birds from how populations adapt to sexual selection and birds' amazing social behavior. Futuyma concludes by discussing the future of birds, particularly patterns of extinction and whether they can adapt to a changing climate. Ultimately, Futuyman wants readers to see that evolutionary biology helps us to better understand birds, and that the reverse is also true: studies of birds have informed almost every aspect of evolutionary biology, from Darwin to today"--
Author: Sara Swan Miller Publisher: Turtleback ISBN: 9780613365895 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages :
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Introduces passerines, also known as perching birds, a special order of birds characterized particularly by their self-locking feet; includes descriptions of fourteen species and advice for observing them in nature.
Author: Paula McCartney Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN: 9781568988559 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 122
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"Paula McCartney's Bird watching series has been included in the Midwest Photographers Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago since 2005."
Author: Joe Harkness Publisher: Unbound Publishing ISBN: 1783527749 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 214
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Longlisted for the 2020 Wainwright Prize 'I can't remember the last book I read that I could say with absolute assurance would save lives. But this one will' Chris Packham 'Fabulously direct and truthful, filled with energy but devoid of self-pity . . . I was impressed and enchanted. Highly recommended' Stephen Fry 'Succeeds – triumphantly – in articulating with great honesty what it is like to suffer with a mental illness, and in providing strategies for coping' Mail on Sunday When Joe Harkness suffered a breakdown in 2013, he tried all the things his doctor recommended: medication helped, counselling was enlightening, and mindfulness grounded him. But nothing came close to nature, particularly birds. How had he never noticed such beauty before? Soon, every avian encounter took him one step closer to accepting who he is. The positive change in Joe's wellbeing was so profound that he started a blog to record his experience. Three years later he has become a spokesperson for the benefits of birdwatching, spreading the word everywhere from Radio 4 to Downing Street. In this groundbreaking book filled with practical advice, Joe explains the impact that birdwatching had on his life, and invites the reader to discover these extraordinary effects for themselves.
Author: Stephanie Spinner Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0307975673 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 48
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In 1977, graduate student Irene Pepperberg walked into a pet store and bought a year-old African grey parrot. Because she was going to study him, she decided to call him Alex--short for Avian Learning EXperiment. At that time, most scientists thought that the bigger the brain, the smarter the creature; they studied great apes and dolphins. African greys, with their walnut-sized "birdbrains," were pretty much ignored--until Alex. His intelligence surprised everyone, including Irene. He learned to count, add, and subtract; to recognize shapes, sizes, and colors; and to speak, and understand, hundreds of words. These were things no other animal could do. Alex wasn't supposed to have the brainpower to do them, either. But he did them anyway. Accompanied by Meilo So's stunning illustrations, Alex and Irene's story is one of groundbreaking discoveries about animal intelligence, hard work, and the loving bonds of a unique friendship.
Author: Jon Fjeldså
Author: Jon Fjeldså
Author: Marlys Adler
Author: Sara Swan Miller
Author: Katrina van Grouw
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Author: Douglas J. Futuyma
Author: Sara Swan Miller
Author: Paula McCartney
Author: Joe Harkness
Author: Stephanie Spinner