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Book The Whooping Cranes of Aransas National Wildlife Refuge

Download or read book The Whooping Cranes of Aransas National Wildlife Refuge written by United States. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Whooping Crane

    Book Details:
  • Author : Klaus Nigge
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2010-08-16
  • ISBN : 160344209X
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book Whooping Crane written by Klaus Nigge and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 250 wild whooping cranes nest in northern Canada and winter in south Texas, flying 2,500 miles annually between these two distinct havens: the coastal marshes of the Gulf of Mexico and the boreal wilderness on the border of Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Through twists of good fortune, each of these terminal migratory places is protected from human encroachment—by a U.S. national wildlife refuge on the one hand and a Canadian national park on the other. This last remaining natural flock of the species, its numbers small but slowly increasing, has thus become known by the names of its sanctuaries: Aransas–Wood Buffalo. On the flock’s wintering grounds at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas, photographer Klaus Nigge has captured the daily activity of a single family over several weeks in two separate years, documenting their life in the salt marshes of the central Texas coast and, in one year, the happy arrival from the north of twin adolescents, itself an unusual event. Then, with the backing of National Geographic magazine, he received unprecedented permission from the Canadian government to photograph the cranes’ summer nesting sites in remote areas of Wood Buffalo National Park. To obtain these unique photographs, he sat in a cleverly constructed blind for six days and nights, watching as a chick hatched and the adults cared for their young. There he witnessed both the peace and the perils of the cranes’ summer haven. In three galleries, each containing portfolios of images of these magnificent birds in their natural habitat, Nigge captures the beauty and essential mystery that have led humans the world over to include cranes in their earliest myths and legends. Additionally, Nigge has written vignettes to accompany each of the portfolios. Krista Schlyer provides an introductory text that affords an overview of crane history. She chronicles the monumental efforts by humans to ensure the survival of the species and has added a profile of Nigge, outlining his extraordinary entry into the world of wild whooping cranes in order to acquire these breathtaking photographs.

Book The Wildlife Stories of Faith McNulty

Download or read book The Wildlife Stories of Faith McNulty written by Faith McNulty and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve separate tales about various animals and what it is like to be close to them in a variety of situations.

Book A Birder s Guide to the Texas Coast

Download or read book A Birder s Guide to the Texas Coast written by Harold R. Holt and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aransas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wayne H. McAlister
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Aransas written by Wayne H. McAlister and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ." . . a very solid, interesting, and significant contribution to environmental knowledge about the Coastal Bend of Texas. . . . It will make an excellent companion volume to their Matagorda book." --Robin W. Doughty, author of Return of the Whooping Crane and The Mockingbird Widely known as the wintering grounds of the world's largest wild flock of endangered whooping cranes, the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge attracts thousands of visitors to the Texas Gulf Coast each year, from casual birdwatchers to professional scientists. This naturalist's guide offers a comprehensive overview of the natural and cultural history of Aransas, taking an ecological approach to show how the plants, animals, land, and sea form a living web that sustains an amazing diversity of creatures. Individual chapters discuss the land itself, the whooping cranes and other endangered species, game animals, introduced species, mammals, birds, herptiles, fish, invertebrates, and woody and herbaceous plants. With this information, visitors to the refuge and everyone interested in the natural history of the Texas Gulf Coast will enrich their knowledge of this environmentally crucial region.

Book The Crane Wife

Download or read book The Crane Wife written by CJ Hauser and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer ​us all. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE GUARDIAN, GARDEN & GUN "Hauser builds their life's inventory out of deconstructed personal narratives, resulting in a reading experience that's rich like a complicated dessert—not for wolfing down but for savoring in small bites." —The New York Times “Clever, heartfelt, and wrenching.” —Time “Brilliant.” —Oprah Daily Ten days after calling off their wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, they realized they'd almost signed up to live someone else's life. What if you released yourself from traditional narratives of happiness? What if you looked for ways to leave room for the unexpected? In Hauser’s case, this meant dissecting pop culture touchstone, from The Philadelphia Story to The X Files, to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. They attended a robot convention, contemplated grief at John Belushi’s gravesite, and officiated a wedding. Most importantly, they mapped the difference between the stories we’re asked to hold versus those we choose to carry. Told with the late-night barstool directness of your wisest, most bighearted friend, The Crane Wife is a book for everyone whose path doesn't look the way they thought it would; for everyone learning to find joy in the not-knowing and to build a new sort of life story, a new sort of family, a new sort of home to live in.

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America

Download or read book The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 1626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Code of federal regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal register by the executive departments and agencies of the federal government.

Book Federal Register

Download or read book Federal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1969-08 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Federal Register Index

Download or read book Federal Register Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Federal Register      Annual Index

Download or read book Federal Register Annual Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: