Download or read book How to Know the Birds written by Ted Floyd and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this elegant narrative, celebrated naturalist Ted Floyd guides you through a year of becoming a better birder. Choosing 200 top avian species to teach key lessons, Floyd introduces a new, holistic approach to bird watching and shows how to use the tools of the 21st century to appreciate the natural world we inhabit together whether city, country or suburbs." -- From book jacket.
Download or read book Land birds from bob whites to grackles written by Edward Howe Forbush and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grackles of Green Grove Protect Their Land written by Norman & Jane Giddan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-08-11 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnificent species inhabit the world of birds, while grackles are more-or-less ordinary; fortunately capable of heroism when their dreams lead them to reach for the sky. They love human beings, but also suffer because of them. They devour waste grain after a harvest and grow fat. Dire consequences follow the urbanization of their natural habitat. So, civilization has been a mixed bag for grackles as they struggle to survive and multiply. Grackles are blackbirds, yet distinctively iridescent black; some with a purplish head and bronze body. All peer at the world through striking yellow eyes. They forage for seeds or grain, prefer small fish or mice, and many types of invertebrates. Their songs and calls are harsh and sharp; they nest in small trees with a clutch of one to seven eggs. Long, keel-shaped tails immediately signal their presence. Bird-watchers usually ignore grackles. In our story, Gregory Grackle is young, rebellious and eager to move a renegade band of grackles to nearby farmland suitable for food and shelter. His sister Greta, more cautious, wants a safe environment for their family and their flock. Their parents, Ma and Pa Grackle, want to stay where they are, and support the virtues of regaining, then restoring, their historic land. Local marshes and hilly scrubland provided sustenance for several generations of grackles. People swooped in to build a huge shopping mall, and a waste management company created an overpowering garbage dump, both of which led to life-and-death issues for the grackles. Worms and insects lived untouched beneath the mall’s imposing concrete buildings and parking lots, while huge vultures, overly- nourished crows and diving hawks nibbled at will on the festering dumpsite. The smaller grackles couldn’t compete. Squeezed both by nature and by humans, the grackles remain rooted, if not stuck, in their familiar landscape, short trees and telephone wires near the mall, and pond and streams near the dump, with its lethal methane gas. Malnutrition and disease spread slowly among the flock, magnifying their sense of damaged self-esteem. Internal disputes between the older and younger generations further intensify the grackles’ plight and their need for intervention. If not divine help, at least some enlightened decisions must be taken. Finally, they execute a powerful move, in the dead of the night, shifting all the garbage to a recycling center. Bravery and cooperation lead to a successful conclusion as the grackles return to feeding at the redeveloped dumpsite, where verdant grass, trees and bushes reemerge, once again. The grackles keep their land and the human environment is better off for it. These little blackbirds inspire us to stay green in order for life to survive on our planet. The grackles aren’t an endangered species yet, but human beings are! Their triumph is one of resilience, persistence, but most of all, hope.
Download or read book Life Histories of North American Birds from the Parrots to the Grackles written by Charles Bendire and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World written by Marshall Cavendish Corporation and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference encyclopedia providing information on endangered wildlife and plants throughout the world.
Download or read book Common Coastal Birds of Florida and the Caribbean written by David W. Nellis and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 .
Download or read book The Great tailed Grackle Quiscalus Mexicanus Gmelin in the Western USA written by Walter Wehtje and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Real James Bond written by Jim Wright and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated biography of the ornithologist James Bond, the author of the book Birds of the West Indies and the namesake of Ian Fleming's fictional British spy.
Download or read book Life Histories of North American Blackbirds Orioles Tanagers and Allies written by Arthur Cleveland Bent and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-24 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Download or read book Birds of New York General chapters land birds 1914 written by Elon Howard Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nesting Birds of a Tropical Frontier written by Timothy Brush and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story behind the birds everyone wants to see Halfway between Dallas and Mexico City, along the last few hundred miles of the Rio Grande, lies a subtropical outpost where people come from all over the world to see birds. Located between the temperate north and the tropic south, with desert to the west and ocean to the east, the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas provides habitat for a variety of birds seen nowhere else in the United States. If you want to see a Hooked-billed Kite, Muscovy Duck, or Altamira Oriole, this is the place. Drawing on years of personal observation and study, Timothy Brush has written a classic work of natural history about the little-known breeding bird communities of the Valley and the diversity of nesting strategies and behaviors that can be seen. Brush estimates that there are more than 150 current breeding species in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. In Nesting Birds of a Tropical Frontier, he describes the habits, distribution, changes in occurrence, and general outlook of these as well as former breeders, concentrating on Valley specialties and other birds of particular interest in the Valley. The species are all dependent upon appropriate habitat, from riparian forest to mesquite savannah, and Brush describes the history of these habitats and the special features that keep the birds coming. He also discusses conservation and the need for both large-scale land acquisitions by public and private groups and small-scale restoration through urban parks and individual landscaping. Art by Gerald Sneed and color photographs by several of Texas’ top nature photographers show off some of the Valley’s famous birds. Historical maps of vegetation and geology help us gain a better perspective on the changes that have taken place along the Rio Grande and on the breeding bird communities of the U.S.–Mexico frontier.
Download or read book The Fascination of Birds written by William Young and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roadrunners are known from cartoons. Ravens are known to poetry lovers. Eagles are known as figures in ancient mythology and as modern national symbols. Birds have fascinated people throughout history. This captivating collection of 99 essays offers a well-researched but easy-to-read look at birds as familiar as the sparrow and as seldom-seen as the albatross, from dancing varieties (crane) to sacred ones (ibis) to those associated with practical jokes and assassinations (snipe). Alphabetically arranged by type of bird, the essays combine the author's extensive field experience with reflections drawn from biology, ecology, literature, music, history, linguistics, politics, sports, entertainment, and other areas. References range from Homer's description of a cormorant in flight to mentions of birds in Monty Python sketches; from the filmmaking of Alfred Hitchcock to the music of Robyn Hitchcock. No previous knowledge of birds is necessary to appreciate the book, which is illustrated with classic images from John James Audubon's The Birds of America.
Download or read book Field and Laboratory Methods in Animal Cognition written by Nereida Bueno-Guerra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading researchers present current methodological approaches and future directions for a less anthropocentric study of animal cognition.
Download or read book Piaget Evolution and Development written by Jonas Langer and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, this book represents cutting-edge work on the mechanisms of cognitive, social, and cultural development. The authors-anthropologists, biologists, historians of science, paleontologists, and psychologists-believe that a rebirth is in progress relating to the study of these mental developments. This volume seeks to illuminate this rebirth. The varied findings and approaches reported reveal that contemporary comparative research on mental development is in a phase of differentiation and integration. Far from being global and fused, this comparative study is a flowering field of diverse disciplinary approaches, empirical phenomena, scholarly topics, and theoretical perspectives. It focuses on the comparative phylogeny, ontogeny, and history of mentation-most notably on the comparative onset and offset ages, velocity, extent, sequencing, organization of thought, symbol, and value development. The world's leading authorities on the subject discuss the implications of the study of evolution for our models of the ontogenetic origins, development, and history of mentation, as well as determine the constraints that evolution imposes on mental development. Bringing the current interest in primate cognition to bear on studies of cognitive development in humans, this book will be of interest cognitive developmentalists, primatologists and comparitive psychologists.
Download or read book Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America Seventh Edition written by Roger Tory Peterson and published by Peterson Field Guides. This book was released on 2020 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the classic, best-selling field guide from Peterson Field Guides For decades, the Peterson Field Guide to Birdsof Eastern and Central North America has been a popular and trusted guide for birders of all levels, thanks to its famous system of identification and unparalleled illustrations. Following the Spring 2020 update to Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, this guide will feature updated text and range maps, and art updated to reflect current knowledge in ornithology.
Download or read book Birds Nearby written by John Eastman and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new bird guide collects naturalist John Eastman's writings focusing on the birds we see around us in our yards, parks, and neighborhoods every day, and includes stunning new color photos. • Explains in clear language how each bird nests, mates, feeds, and migrates • Features 45 species of birds, each identified with a beautiful color photograph • Includes evolutionary adaptations, name origins, nature lore, and more
Download or read book International Wildlife Encyclopedia written by Maurice Burton and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2002 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This twenty-two volume set presents the appearance and behavior of thousands of species of animals along with species population and prospects for survival in a arranged alphabetically and easy-to-read format.
