Author : Lang Elliott
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780395912386
Presents the songs and calls of fifty North American birds that are common to residential settings, city parks, and urban areas.
Author : Jim Wilson
Publisher : Wormsloe Foundation Nature Boo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780820338255
Designed for beginning birders and nature enthusiasts alike, this easy-to-use guide presents sixty-one of the most common species of birds in the greater Atlanta area. The guide features large color photographs throughout for immediate identification and is conveniently organized by bird size, starting with very small birds, such as the ruby-throated hummingbird, and progressing to larger species, such as the great blue heron. Information for each bird species includes common and scientific names, distinguishing marks and characteristics, and descriptions of bird calls, typical habitats, and nesting and feeding behaviors. Accounts also show variations in plumage according to sex, age, and season. The perfect companion for every backyard birder, Common Birds of Greater Atlanta also serves as an excellent introduction to birding, bird identification, and conservation.
Author : Julie Zickefoose
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0547727429
Julie Zickefoose lives for the moment when a wild, free living bird that she has raised or rehabilitated comes back to visit her; their eyes meet and they share a spark of understanding. Her reward for the grueling work of rescuing birds—such as feeding baby hummingbirds every twenty minutes all day long—is her empathy with them and the satisfaction of knowing the world is a birdier and more beautiful place. The Bluebird Effect is about the change that's set in motion by one single act, such as saving an injured bluebird—or a hummingbird, swift, or phoebe. Each of the twenty five chapters covers a different species, and many depict an individual bird, each with its own personality, habits, and quirks. And each chapter is illustrated with Zickefoose's stunning watercolor paintings and drawings. Not just individual tales about the trials and triumphs of raising birds, The Bluebird Effect mixes humor, natural history, and memoir to give readers an intimate story of a life lived among wild birds.
Author :
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Offers a glimpse inside the world of avian behavior at different times of the year, capturing such activities as courting mates, nesting, raising young, preening, feeding, and defending territories.
Author : Foster Ellenborough Lascelles Beal
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Birds
ISBN :
"From a purely practical point of view the most important of the relations of native birds to man are the economic. The esthetic value of birds is great -- greater, indeed, than that of any other group of animals; and that this is a real and especially a treasured value is not to be denied. But it is in their relation to insect and other enemies of crops that birds are most directly associated with the welfare of mankind, and their value in this particular should be made as widely known as possible. This bulletin is one of a series designed to assist in doing this. Not all birds are beneficial and all facts tending to show in which class each species belongs will be set forth. the useful kinds far outnumber the injurious, however, and so great is their value as insect destroyers in the United States that to them may be given the credit of being on e of the greatest controlling factors in limiting the development of insect pests and in preventing many disastrous outbreaks. In the following pages are discussed the habitat, food habits, a nd relation to agriculture of more than 50 species of birds common to farming sections."--Page 2
Author : Richard L. Cunningham
Publisher : Western National Parks Association
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780911408836
Handy reference book describes and depicts 50 species commonly found in the Southwest, particularly those occurring in National Park Service areas.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Beneficial birds
ISBN :
Author : Foster Ellenborough Lascelles Beal
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Charles Lester Marlatt
Publisher :
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : F. E. L. Beal
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This book was written by Ellenborough Lascelles Beal, an American pioneer of economic ornithology. In the following pages are discussed the food habits of more than 50 birds belonging to 12 families. Many are eastern forms which are represented in the West by slightly different species or subspecies, but unless the food habits differ they are not separately described. In some cases specific percentages of food are given, but for the most part the statements are made without direct reference to the data on which they are based.
