Download or read book Herons and Egrets of the World written by James Hancock and published by Christopher Helm Publishers, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the only complete review of the world's herons currently in print, James Hancock distills his knowledge into a concise review of all 47 species and recognized subspecies. The text comprises a thumbnail sketch, including descriptions of the appearance, distribution, conservation status, feeding, and breeding ecology of each species. Over 150 wonderful color photographs, most by the author, show all the recognizable forms of each species, illustrating the variety and beauty of these birds. As a valuable reference and a fine photo collection, this book will find a place on the shelves of bird lovers everywhere.
Download or read book The Great Blue Heron written by Robert William Butler and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its striking plumage, the great blue heron is one of the most widely recognized wading birds in North America. Riding on kelp beds in the Queen Charlotte Islands, wading in coastal streams along the mainland, poised motionless at the water's edge on a misty morning, or nesting in the limbs of old-growth forests, this stately bird is a familiar sight on the coast of British Columbia. The largest colonies are on the Fraser River delta, an area of great ecological significance to the north Pacific. Despite a growing body of knowledge regarding many aspects of the species' breeding biology and courtship behaviour, the foraging and population ecology of this bird remains something of an enigma. In his beautifully illustrated book, Robert Butler follows the great blue heron through a year on the coast of British Columbia. He draws on more than a decade of work to throw light on the adaptability of this magnificent bird to a temperate climate, its diet and breeding habits, habitat use, and conservation. Although the great blue heron has become a symbol of wetland conservation, in recent years it has had to face new challenges as a consequence of rapid urbanization of its environment. In The Great Blue Heron the author also describes the B.C. coast and shares a vision for the conservation of the Strait of Georgia and the Fraser River delta.
Download or read book Better Birding written by George L. Armistead and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better Birding reveals the techniques expert birders use to identify a wide array of bird species in the field—quickly and easily. Featuring hundreds of stunning photos and composite plates throughout, this book simplifies identification by organizing the birds you see into groupings and offering strategies specifically tailored to each group. Skill building focuses not just on traditional elements such as plumage, but also on creating a context around each bird, including habitat, behavior, and taxonomy—parts so integral to every bird's identity but often glossed over by typical field guides. Critical background information is provided for each group, enabling you to approach bird identification with a wide-angle view, using your eyes, brain, and binoculars more strategically, resulting in a more organized approach to learning birds. Better Birding puts the thrill of expert bird identification within your reach. Reveals the techniques used by expert birders for quick and easy identification Simplifies identification with strategies tailored to different groupings of birds Features hundreds of photos and composite plates that illustrate the different techniques Fosters a wide-angle approach to field birding Provides a foundation for building stronger birding skills
Download or read book A White Heron written by Sarah Orne Jewett and published by Trond Knutsen. This book was released on 1886 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A White Heron written by Sarah Orne Jewett and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2005 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beloved short story - a classic coming-of-age tale by the author of The Country of the Pointed Firs is gloriously illustrated with pencil drawings by Maine artist Douglas Alvord. Sylvia, a city girl more at home with animals than with people, has come to the Maine Woods to live with her grandmother. One summer afternoon in the late 1800s, her life is changed forever when she meets an attractive young ornithologist searching for birds to snare, stuff, preserve, and display.
Download or read book The Eye of the Heron written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-09-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups--the farmers of Shantih and the City dwellers--live in apparent harmony. All is not as it seems, however. While the peace-loving farmers labor endlessly to provide food for the City, the City Bosses rule the Shantih with an iron fist. When a group of farmers decide to from a new settlement further away, the Bosses retaliate by threatening to crush the "rebellion." Luz understands what it means to have no choices. Her father is a Boss and he has ruled over her life with the same iron fist. Luz wonders what it might be like to make her own choices. To be free to choose her own destiny. When the crisis over the new settlement reaches a flash point, Luz will have her chance.
Download or read book The Place of the Herons written by Patricia Herington and published by AuthorHouse UK. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing a true parent does not always produce the hoped-for, happy outcome.Attempts to form a relationship can flounder without the security of the familiar. Disappointment is a possibility and also the opposite - a euphoria that can develop into an intensity of feeling difficult to cope with. When Alex erupts, totally unexpectedly into his mother's life, the obsession which takes hold of them both, fractures her marriage and his. People around them are deeply affected. Dramatic changes are inevitable. The reader is left with the fragile hope that something may yet be salvaged fromjthe damage.
Download or read book A Place of Herons written by Jeanne Gribbin and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mirror Shoulder Signal written by Dorthe Nors and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonja's over forty, and she's trying to move in the right direction. She's learning to drive. She's joined a meditation group. And she's attempting to reconnect with her sister. But Sonja would rather eat cake than meditate. Her driving instructor won't let her change gear. And her sister won't return her calls. Sonja's mind keeps wandering back to the dramatic landscapes of her childhood--the singing whooper swans, the endless sky, and getting lost barefoot in the rye fields--but how can she return to a place that she no longer recognises? And how can she escape the alienating streets of Copenhagen?
Download or read book The Hunters written by John Flanagan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the global phenomenon and New York Times bestselling Ranger's Apprentice! Hal and his brotherband crew are hot on the trail of the pirate Zavac and they have one thing only on their minds: Stopping the bloodthirsty thief before he can do more damage. Of course, they also know Zavac has the Andomal, the priceless Skandian artifact stolen when the brotherband let down their guard. The chase leads down mighty rivers, terrifying rapids, to the lawless fortress of Ragusa. If Hal is to succeed, he will need to go beyond his brotherband training. He will need to challenge the pirate one-on-one, knowing only one of them will survive. The epic series from Ranger's Apprentice author John Flanagan continues, delivering pulse-pounding adventure and fun. Perfect for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, T.H. White’s The Sword in the Stone, Christopher Paolini’s Eragon series, and George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones/ A Song of Ice and Fire series.
Download or read book Lives of North American Birds written by Kenn Kaufman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling natural history of birds, lavishly illustrated with 600 colorphotos, is now available for the first time in flexi binding.
Download or read book Life Histories of North American birds Wild fowl written by Arthur Cleveland Bent and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Heron written by Jean M Roberts and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past calls to those who dare to listen... An invitation arrives; Abbey Coote, Professor of American Studies, has won an extended stay in an historic B&B, Pine Tree House. The timing is perfect. Abbey is recovering from an accident which left her abusive boyfriend dead and her with little memory of the event. But her idyllic respite soon takes a terrifying turn. While exploring the house, Abbey comes face to face with Mary Foss, a woman dead for 350 years. Through a time/mind interface, Abbey experiences the horrors of Mary's life, living at the edge of the civilized world in the 1690's New England. As Abbey faces her worst fears, she struggles to free them both from the past.
Download or read book Herons written by and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the physical characteristics and life cycle of this plant, originally brought to America by English settlers to grow in their gardens.
Download or read book The Mysteries of Louis Napoleon s Court written by Émile Zola and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Herons of Europe written by Claire Voisin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the majority of the world's Herons live in the tropics and subtropics, Europe is home to nine species, some large, some small, some colonial, some solitary breeders. Highly specialized birds, they exhibit many interesting differences in their behaviour and ecology and are a favourite group for many ornithologists. Voisin begins her book with a general description of the family before going on to treat each species in more detail. The species accounts summarize such topics as field characters, distribution, population size, breeding and feeding ecology and behaviour. Numerous figures and tables are accompanied by fine drawings of behaviour by P. L. Suiro and colour and black and white pictures of each species by Gunnar Brusewitz.
Download or read book Listen to the Heron s Words written by Gloria Goodwin Raheja and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-04-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, symbolic herons speak, telling of alternative moral perspectives shaped by women. The heron's words—and women's expressive genres more generally—criticize pervasive North Indian ideologies of gender and kinship that place women in subordinate positions. By inviting readers to "listen to the heron's words," the authors convey this shift in moral perspective and suggest that these spoken truths are compelling and consequential for the women in North India. The songs and narratives bear witness to a provocative cultural dissonance embedded in women's speech. This book reveals the power of these critical commentaries and the fluid and permeable boundaries between spoken words and the lives of ordinary village women.
