Download or read book North American Pelicans written by and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of pelicans.
Download or read book Pelicans written by Valerie Bodden and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2022-07-22 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the pelican! Learn about how this large bird uses its bill to scoop up fish. Elementary-aged readers will discover how pelicans preen to keep their feathers waterproof. Full color images and clear explanations highlight the habitat, diet, and lifestyle of these fascinating birds. An Australian folktale explains why some pelicans are white.
Download or read book Those Peculiar Pelicans written by Sarah Cussen and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2005-09-15 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 20 full-color photos, 20 very funny illustrations, and 20 facts you never knew about pelicans, this delightful book teaches kids ages 5-9 about the fascinating lives of these long-beaked, big-pouched birds.
Download or read book The Wisdom of Pelicans written by Donald W. McCullough and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald McCullough, a respected Presbyterian pastor and president of San Francisco Theological Seminary, watched his world tumble down around him when a private confession of an affair became public. Writing with courage and absolute candor, McCullough describes the pain of hitting bottom, and how watching the pelicans at the ocean shore helped him to recover the hope - and the faith - he thought he had lost forever.
Download or read book Pelicans written by Frankie Stout and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pelicans are known for their interesting appearance. Readers will learn about this and other fascinating facts about this fun sea bird.
Download or read book Pelicans Cormorants and their Relatives written by J. Bryan Nelson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pelecaniformes are a large and important group of seabirds, containing many spectacular species. This book addresses the breeding biology of the six pelecaniform families, which comprise the closely-related core groups (pelicans, cormorants/shags, darters, gannets/boobies) and their more distant relatives, the frigate birds and tropic birds. Many fundamental questions can be addressed through the pelecaniformes: Why do they breed in colonies? What are the links between their feeding methods and their reproduction? What part does territorial and pairing behaviour play in their life-cycles? These and scores of comparable issues, including those related to man, are woven here into a richly interpretative text. The author's approach to the subject is threefold. First, the pelecaniformes are placed within the framework of four discrete disciplines, with chapters on evolutionary relationships, comparative behaviour, ecology, and the birds' relationship with humans. Secondly, each of the six families is discussed, elucidating the range of taxonomy, behaviour, and ecology within each. Finally, we progress to specific level, using the same structure as for the family accounts. In this way, each of the 60-odd species can be understood not just as discrete units, but as part of their family and order. The book is unique in its coverage of the entire order and in its combination of facts and interpretation. Pelicans, Cormorants, and their Allies will enable readers not only to identify the many spectacular species which make up this large and important group of seabirds, but also to understand their breeding biology.
Download or read book Pelican written by Barbara Allen and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its distinctive, comical walk, large bill, and association with the conservation movement, the pelican has attained iconic status. But as Barbara Allen reveals, this graceful skimmer of ocean waves has a checkered history. Originally classed as “unclean” in the King James Bible, the legend of the compassionate pelican was later appropriated by Christianity to symbolize Christ’s sacrifice. This majestic bird, gifted to British royalty in 1664, has been celebrated in art and literature, from Shakespeare’s King Lear to the writing of Edward Lear, and is the holder of three Guinness World Records. The pelican’s anatomy has been copied for paper plane construction, aircraft design, and in 3D imaging, and its resilience is as remarkable as its make-up: the pelican has rallied against threats of extinction, habitat destruction, and environmental disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A must-read book for all bird enthusiasts, Barbara Allen’s Pelican weaves together wildlife trivia, historical tales, and the latest research to provide an engaging, many-feathered account of this emblematic bird.
Download or read book Brown Pelican Roosting Patterns and Responses to Disturbance at Mugu Lagoon and Other Nonbreeding Sites in the Southern California Bight written by Deborah L. Jaques and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brown Pelican written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pelican Book of English Prose From 1780 to the present day edited by R Williams written by Roger Sharrock and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perky Pelican written by Suzanne Tate and published by Nags Head Art, Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a pelican reflects the ordinary experiences encountered every day.
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Download or read book CORMORANTS DARTERS PELICANS written by Paul A. Johnsgard and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1993-05-17 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it is an elusive darter stalking its prey in a tropical swamp, a flock of cormorants cooperatively driving a frenzied school of fish into the shallows of a lake or river, or brown pelicans plummeting into the ocean, these ancient groups of web-footed birds in the order Pelecaniformes offer remarkable behavioral and structural diversity. As fish eaters, they are highly susceptible to poisons and serve as biological indicators for toxic materials. In this first worldwide survey of cormorants, darters, and pelicans, Paul A. Johnsgard provides a color illustration of nearly every species and a variety of anatomical drawings, and he summarizes the species' status and biology, including ecology, behavior, distribution, plumage, and morphology. The first section of the book focuses on comparative biology, including all 32 species of Cormorants and shags (Phalacrocoracidae), two species of darters (Anhingidae), and seven species of pelicans (Pelecanidae). The accounts cover species' phylogeny, taxonomy, zoogeography, comparative anatomy, behavior, reproductive biology, population and breeding dynamics, and conservation biology. Detailed line drawings of the heads of all species noting age or seasonal variations help the reader identify and distinguish between each species. The book also includes keys to each species and the origins of their scientific and vernacular names.
Download or read book Dark Biology written by Bonnie Doran and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned vaccinologist "Hildi" Hildebrandt has set her sights on beating her brother to a Nobel Prize, and the opportunity to conduct experiments on the International Space Station might just provide the means to obtain that goal. Chet Hildebrandt should have had that opportunity. But now he'll teach a lesson to them all: his hot-shot astronaut sister, his philandering hypocritical father, and the CDC for not properly appreciating his work. One vial of a virus purloined from the CDC labs and released at his father's marriage seminar should do the trick, without hurting anybody. After all, it's only a mild influenza strain...Or is it?
Download or read book Summerhill written by Alexander Sutherland Neill and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pelican Brief written by John Grisham and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder—a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds there is only one person she can trust—an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate—to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For someone has read Darby's brief. Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
Download or read book Pelican s Pouch written by Pam Scheunemann and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Pearl and her friend Dash practice a magic trick, they are watched by a prankster.
