Download or read book The Human Side of Birds written by Royal Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Human Side of Birds written by Royal Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Human Side of Birds and the Human Side of Animals written by Royal Dixon and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1917 Edition.
Download or read book The Human Side of Birds written by Royal Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Human Side of Birds written by Royal Dixon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Human Side of Birds In the examination of some aspects and forms of life it is often best to cast aside the complex machinery of cold and calculating analysis, and to look only with the eye of love and sympathy. In this work it is my purpose to reject the limitations of unsympathetic research, and to endeavour to see beyond formal classifications, and to understand the spirit, emotions and impulses in the lives of our feathered friends of the air. By this means many new discoveries have been made which include a universal truth, where a too minute and laborious logic would have proved a hopeless labyrinth. The syllogistic method signally fails to comprehend or appreciate the real spiritual beauty of the life of other species than our own. It ascribes no intelligence or spirituality even to birds, and brands their most efficient activities as "instinctive." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Human Side of Birds Classic Reprint written by Royal Dixon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Human Side of Birds In the examination of some aspects and forms of life it is often best to cast aside the complex ma chinery of cold and calculating analysis, and to look only with the eye of love and sympathy. In this work it is my purpose to reject the limitations of unsympathetic research, and to endeavour to see beyond formal classifications, and to understand the spirit, emotions and impulses in the lives of our feathered friends of the air. By this means many new discoveries have been made which include a universal truth, where a too minute and laborious logic would have proved a hopeless labyrinth. The syllogistic method Sig nally fails to comprehend or appreciate the real spiritual beauty of the life of other species than our own. It ascribes no intelligence or spirituality even to birds, and brands their most efficient activities as instinctive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book HUMAN SIDE OF BIRDS written by Royal 1885 Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Human Side of Animals written by Royal Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birdology written by Sy Montgomery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the ladies: a flock of smart, affectionate, highly individualistic chickens who visit their favorite neighbors, devise different ways to hide from foxes, and mob the author like she's a rock star. In these pages you'll also meet Maya and Zuni, two orphaned baby hummingbirds who hatched from eggs the size of navy beans, and who are little more than air bubbles fringed with feathers. Their lives hang precariously in the balance-but with human help, they may one day conquer the sky. Snowball is a cockatoo whose dance video went viral on YouTube and who's now teaching schoolchildren how to dance. You'll meet Harris's hawks named Fire and Smoke. And you'll come to know and love a host of other avian characters who will change your mind forever about who birds really are. Each of these birds shows a different and utterly surprising aspect of what makes a bird a bird-and these are the lessons of Birdology: that birds are far stranger, more wondrous, and at the same time more like us than we might have dared to imagine. In Birdology, beloved author of The Good Good Pig Sy Montgomery explores the essence of the otherworldly creatures we see every day. By way of her adventures with seven birds-wild, tame, exotic, and common-she weaves new scientific insights and narrative to reveal seven kernels of bird wisdom. The first lesson of Birdology is that, no matter how common they are, Birds Are Individuals, as each of Montgomery's distinctive Ladies clearly shows. In the leech-infested rain forest of Queensland, you'll come face to face with a cassowary-a 150-pound, man-tall, flightless bird with a helmet of bone on its head and a slashing razor-like toenail with which it (occasionally) eviscerates people-proof that Birds Are Dinosaurs. You'll learn from hawks that Birds Are Fierce; from pigeons, how Birds Find Their Way Home; from parrots, what it means that Birds Can Talk; and from 50,000 crows who moved into a small city's downtown, that Birds Are Everywhere. They are the winged aliens who surround us. Birdology explains just how very "other" birds are: Their hearts look like those of crocodiles. They are covered with modified scales, which are called feathers. Their bones are hollow. Their bodies are permeated with extensive air sacs. They have no hands. They give birth to eggs. Yet despite birds' and humans' disparate evolutionary paths, we share emotional and intellectual abilities that allow us to communicate and even form deep bonds. When we begin to comprehend who birds really are, we deepen our capacity to approach, understand, and love these otherworldly creatures. And this, ultimately, is the priceless lesson of Birdology: it communicates a heartfelt fascination and awe for birds and restores our connection to these complex, mysterious fellow creatures
Download or read book The Life of the Skies written by Jonathan Rosen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aerial delights: A history of America as seen through the eyes of a bird-watcher John James Audubon arrived in America in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president, and lived long enough to see his friend Samuel Morse send a telegraphic message from his house in New York City in the 1840s. As a boy, Teddy Roosevelt learned taxidermy from a man who had sailed up the Missouri River with Audubon, and yet as president presided over America’s entry into the twentieth century, in which our ability to destroy ourselves and the natural world was no longer metaphorical. Roosevelt, an avid birder, was born a hunter and died a conservationist. Today, forty-six million Americans are bird-watchers. The Life of the Skies is a genre-bending journey into the meaning of a pursuit born out of the tangled history of industrialization and nature longing. Jonathan Rosen set out on a quest not merely to see birds but to fathom their centrality—historical and literary, spiritual and scientific—to a culture torn between the desire both to conquer and to conserve. Rosen argues that bird-watching is nothing less than the real national pastime—indeed it is more than that, because the field of play is the earth itself. We are the players and the spectators, and the outcome—since bird and watcher are intimately connected—is literally a matter of life and death.
Download or read book The Human Side of Birds With Illustrations Etc written by Royal DIXON and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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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 Birds of Paradise written by Tim Laman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dazzling photo essay, Laman and Scholes present gorgeous full-color photographs of all 39 species of the Birds of Paradise that highlight their unique and extraordinary plumage and mating behavior.
Download or read book The Human Nature of Birds written by Theodore Xenophon Barber and published by Penguin Mass Market. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative new study of birds, humans, and the deepest prejudices of Western science--developed from six years of independent research by a behavioral scientist. In the spirit of the New York Times bestseller The Hidden Life of Dogs. Color photos.
Download or read book Bird Hand Book written by and published by Graphis Incorporated. This book was released on 2001 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Victor Schrager has elegantly photographed more than 100 species of birds in the hands of ornithologists. Rich platinum prints portray a human hand transformed into a delicate pedestal for an even more delicate creature.
Download or read book The Private Lives of Public Birds written by Jack Gedney and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book to help the ordinary birdwatcher appreciate the fascinating songs, stories, and science of common birds Jack Gedney's studies of birds provide resonant, affirming answers to the questions: Who is this bird? In what way is it beautiful? Why does it matter? Masterfully linking an abundance of poetic references with up-to-date biological science, Gedney shares his devotion to everyday Western birds in fifteen essays. Each essay illuminates the life of a single species and its relationship to humans, and how these species can help us understand birds in general. A dedicated birdwatcher and teacher, Gedney finds wonder not only in the speed and glistening beauty of the Anna's hummingbird, but also in her nest building. He acclaims the turkey vulture's and red-tailed hawk's roles in our ecosystem, and he venerates the inimitable California scrub jay's work planting acorns. Knowing that we hear birds much more often than we see them, Gedney offers his expert's ear to help us not only identify bird songs and calls but also understand what the birds are saying. The crowd at the suet feeder will never look quite the same again. Join Gedney in the enchanted world of these not-so-ordinary birds, each enlivened by a hand-drawn portrait by artist Anna Kus Park.
