Book Description
A must for all birdwatchers in the Great Basin.
Author : Fred A. Ryser
Publisher : Max C. Fleischmann Series in G
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780874170801
A must for all birdwatchers in the Great Basin.
Author : Dean E. Medin
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Bird populations
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Author : Fred A. Ryser
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780874170795
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.
Author : Dean E. Medin
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Bird populations
ISBN :
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.
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Bird populations
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Author : Ted Floyd
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780874176957
A documentation of the first-ever statewide survey of breeding birds, undertaken between 1997 and 2000
Author : Donald Grayson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520948718
Covering a large swath of the American West, the Great Basin, centered in Nevada and including parts of California, Utah, and Oregon, is named for the unusual fact that none of its rivers or streams flow into the sea. This fascinating illustrated journey through deep time is the definitive environmental and human history of this beautiful and little traveled region, home to Death Valley, the Great Salt Lake, Lake Tahoe, and the Bonneville Salt Flats. Donald K. Grayson synthesizes what we now know about the past 25,000 years in the Great Basin—its climate, lakes, glaciers, plants, animals, and peoples—based on information gleaned from the region’s exquisite natural archives in such repositories as lake cores, packrat middens, tree rings, and archaeological sites. A perfect guide for students, scholars, travelers, and general readers alike, the book weaves together history, archaeology, botany, geology, biogeography, and other disciplines into one compelling panorama across a truly unique American landscape.
Author : Michael P. Branch
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1611804574
“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.
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Birds
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Author : Jules Evens
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 28,17 MB
Release : 2005-04-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520242548
An introduction to the behavior and natural history of California's birds, organized by their habitats.