Download or read book Birds and Eggs from the Farallon Islands written by Walter E. Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nests and Eggs of North American Birds written by Oliver Davie and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seabirds of the Farallon Islands written by David G. Ainley and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summarizing a 15-year study of the seabird community on this small group of rocks about 20 miles offshore of San Francisco, this volume is both a detailed account of a seabird breeding ecology and a challenge to the prevailing conception of ecological stability as the typical seabird lifestyle. With
Download or read book Oology and Ralph s Talking Eggs written by Carrol L. Henderson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before modern binoculars and cameras made it possible to observe birds closely in the wild, many people collected eggs as a way of learning about birds. Serious collectors called their avocation "oology" and kept meticulous records for each set of eggs: the bird's name, the species reference number, the quantity of eggs in the clutch, the date and location where the eggs were collected, and the collector's name. These documented egg collections, which typically date from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, now provide an important baseline from which to measure changes in the numbers, distribution, and nesting patterns of many species of birds. In Oology and Ralph's Talking Eggs, Carrol L. Henderson uses the vast egg collection of Ralph Handsaker, an Iowa farmer, as the starting point for a fascinating account of oology and its role in the origins of modern birdwatching, scientific ornithology, and bird conservation in North America. Henderson describes Handsaker's and other oologists' collecting activities, which included not only gathering bird eggs in the wild but also trading and purchasing eggs from collectors around the world. Henderson then spotlights sixty of the nearly five hundred bird species represented in the Handsaker collection, using them to tell the story of how birds such as the Snowy Egret, Greater Prairie Chicken, Atlantic Puffin, and Wood Duck have fared over the past hundred years or so since their eggs were gathered. Photos of the eggs and historical drawings and photos of the birds illustrate each species account. Henderson also links these bird histories to major milestones in bird conservation and bird protection laws in North America from 1875 to the present.
Download or read book On the Natural History of the Farallon Islands written by Joseph William Blankinship and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Circular on the Food habits of Birds written by Clinton Hart Merriam and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue written by Walters, Frank, Firm, Booksellers, New York and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Condor written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Directory to the Bird life of the San Francisco Bay Region written by Joseph Grinnell and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life Histories of North American birds Gulls and terns written by Arthur Cleveland Bent and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farallon Islands The Devil s Teeth written by Marla Daily, Santa Cruz Island Foundation and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Farallon Islands lie almost 30 miles outside the entrance to San Francisco Bay and are comprised of over 20 islands, islets, sea stacks, and rocks, which span a seven-mile stretch of the Pacific Ocean. Nineteenth-century sailors called them "the Devil's Teeth," in reference to their extreme hazard to navigation, and hundreds of shipwrecks, disasters, drownings, and deaths have occurred here. The sixth lighthouse on the West Coast was lit on Southeast Farallon Island in 1855. Only Southeast Farallon supports historic structures, several of which are maintained for management purposes. Southeast Farallon once served as home to keepers from the Bureau of Lighthouses (1853-1939), the US Coast Guard (1939-1972), and at various times the US Navy. Today, the islands are home to millions of seabirds and five species of pinnipeds. Because of their biological importance, the islands are not open to the public. They are managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in collaboration with Point Blue Conservation Science. Visitors can explore the islands by boat, at speeds of five miles per hour and from a distance the length of a football field for excellent viewing of globally significant wildlife populations.
Download or read book Natural History of the Islands of California written by Allan A. Schoenherr and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-07-10 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book on California's islands that deals with their natural history and geology as well as the history of human habitation.
Download or read book Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farallon Island written by Russell James and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nate Thalmann wants to escape his life as a Prohibition Era bootlegger. He moves with his pregnant wife Alice to the Farallon Island lighthouse, situated on a rocky islet twenty-seven miles off the California coast. Joining three other keepers and their families, he hopes for peace and a deep reconnection with his wife. But one of the keeper’s children finds a secret cave, and releases a malicious entity imprisoned within. It possesses a former keeper and soon the islanders are being stalked and slaughtered. The demon within the keeper plans to only leave Alice alive, at least until she’s given birth to her child, who will become the demon’s permanent vessel. With no radio, no resupply, and no weapons, it is up to Nate to keep his wife and unborn child safe. But the body-hopping fiend seems to always be one step, and one corpse, ahead of him. Will anyone survive wrath of the demon of Farallon Island?
Download or read book Catalogue of Scientific Papers written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Scientific Papers 1800 1900 ser 4 1884 1900 written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
