Download or read book Birds of the Great Basin written by Fred A. Ryser and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on over thirty years of research, this comprehensive book on the diverse bird life of the Great Basin discusses the physiology, behavior, ecology, and distribution of over 300 species, including information on navigation, flight, territorial behavior, courtship, nesting, hunting, and the great migrations that pass through the region each year.
Download or read book Birds of the Great Basin written by Fred A. Ryser and published by Max C. Fleischmann Series in G. This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must for all birdwatchers in the Great Basin.
Download or read book Watchable Birds of the Great Basin written by David Lukas and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watchable Birds of the Great Basin offers wildlife enthusiasts, families, and birders fascinating facts about nesting behavior, birdsongs, foods, and flight characteristics of 80 of the most fun-to-watch species in Nevada and parts of Utah, Oregon, Idaho, and California.
Download or read book Birds of a Great Basin Sagebrush Habitat in East central Nevada written by Dean E. Medin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Basin Birds written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A 20 year Recount of Bird Populations Along a Great Basin Elevational Gradient written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Birds of the Western United States written by Florence Merriam Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birds of Nevada written by J. Ray Alcorn and published by Fairview West Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Birds of the Western United States written by Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bird Habitat Relationships Along a Great Basin Elevational Gradient written by Dean E. Medin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bird censuses were taken on 11 study plots along an elevational gradient ranging from 5,250 to 11,400 feet. Each plot represented a different vegetative type or zone: shadscale, shadscale-Wyoming big sagebrush, Wyoming big sagebrush, Wyoming big sagebrush-pinyon/juniper, pinyon/juniper, pinyon/juniper-mountain big sagebrush, mountain big sagebrush, mountain big sagebrush-mixed conifer, mixed conifer, mixed conifer-alpine, and alpine. Eighty-nine bird species were observed. The total number of birds and bird species followed a skewed bell-shaped distribution. Some birds were quite narrow in their choice of vegetative zones while others showed very little selectivity. Both total number of individual birds and bird species appeared to reach highest values in study plots with a substantial component of mountain big sagebrush.
Download or read book Introduction to California Birdlife written by Jules G. Evens and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a longtime birder, ornithologist, and naturalist, Evens has the breadth of understanding of California's avifauna like few others have. . . . Tait's photos are outstanding-it's obvious he's been at it for decades. . . . Anyone interested in the natural history of California will want to read this book."--Jeff N. Davis, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz "This is the first book on California birds that is based on habitats. I would have loved to have it when I started birdwatching in 1958! I would have read it cover to cover a dozen times and slept with it under my pillow."--Steve Laymon, Natural Resource Specialist, Bureau of Land Management
Download or read book Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Nevada written by Ted Floyd and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A documentation of the first-ever statewide survey of breeding birds, undertaken between 1997 and 2000
Download or read book I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird written by Susan Cerulean and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Cerulean’s memoir trains a naturalist’s eye and a daughter’s heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time, the book explores an activist’s lifelong search to be of service to the embattled natural world. During the years she cared for her father, Cerulean also volunteered as a steward of wild shorebirds along the Florida coast. Her territory was a tiny island just south of the Apalachicola bridge where she located and protected nesting shorebirds, including least terns and American oystercatchers. I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird weaves together intimate facets of adult caregiving and the consolation of nature, detailing Cerulean’s experiences of tending to both. The natural world is the “sustaining body” into which we are born. In similar ways, we face not only a crisis in numbers of people diagnosed with dementia but also the crisis of the human-caused degradation of the planet itself, a type of cultural dementia. With I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird, Cerulean reminds us of the loving, necessary toil of tending to one place, one bird, one being at a time.
Download or read book Rants from the Hill written by Michael P. Branch and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If Thoreau drank more whiskey and lived in the desert, he’d write like this.”—High Country News Welcome to the land of wildfire, hypothermia, desiccation, and rattlers. The stark and inhospitable high-elevation landscape of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert may not be an obvious (or easy) place to settle down, but for self-professed desert rat Michael Branch, it’s home. Of course, living in such an unforgiving landscape gives one many things to rant about. Fortunately for us, Branch—humorist, environmentalist, and author of Raising Wild—is a prodigious ranter. From bees hiving in the walls of his house to owls trying to eat his daughters’ cat—not to mention his eccentric neighbors—adventure, humor, and irreverence abound on Branch’s small slice of the world, which he lovingly calls Ranting Hill.
Download or read book Handbook of Birds of the Western United States written by Florence Merriam Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bird Habitat Relationships Along a Great Basin Elevational Gradient written by Dean E. Medin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bird censuses were taken on 11 study plots along an elevational gradient ranging from 5,250 to 11,400 feet. Each plot represented a different vegetative type or zone: shadscale, shadscale-Wyoming big sagebrush, Wyoming big sagebrush, Wyoming big sagebrush-pinyon/juniper, pinyon/juniper, pinyon/juniper-mountain big sagebrush, mountain big sagebrush, mountain big sagebrush-mixed conifer, mixed conifer, mixed conifer-alpine, and alpine. Eighty-nine bird species were observed. The total number of birds and bird species followed a skewed bell-shaped distribution. Some birds were quite narrow in their choice of vegetative zones while others showed very little selectivity. Both total number of individual birds and bird species appeared to reach highest values in study plots with a substantial component of mountain big sagebrush.
Download or read book Sierra East written by Genny Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are few more spectacular drives on Earth than Highway 395 along the foot of the great granite wall of the Sierra Nevada. In Sierra East, Genny Smith and her team of experts tell the story of that amazing terrain, and its fantastic contours, molded by tectonic upthrusts and Pleistocene glaciers; its spectacular weathers; its amazing diversity of plant and animal life; and the human struggles over its life-giving waters."--Harold Gilliam, author of Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region "For those of us who live within the Sierra East territory, this is the 'right' side of California. It is a wondrous place to visit. This book is not a superficial tourist guide to what you may see from the scenic overlooks. It is a real guidebook covering all the natural and unnatural history as well as geology, weather, and water. There are thorough descriptions of plants and animals you may wander across plus information on how they cope with the extreme rigors of the high mountains and harsh deserts."--Sally Gaines, co-founder of the Mono Lake Committee "This is the first comprehensive natural history of the Eastern Sierra. An outstanding team of authors, with years of experience in the region, meets the challenge of covering their specialties from the Mojave Desert to the tops of 14,000-foot mountains. This diverse material is uniformly accessible in a readable style."--Frank L. Powell, Director, White Mountain Research Station, University of California, San Diego
