Author : Pete Dunne
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780395709597
An indispensable guide for hawk watchers, this is a completely new edition of the seminal book that introduced a holistic method for identifying distant birds in flight.
Author : Maria Gianferrari
Publisher :
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1626720967
In this companion to "Coyote Moon, " readers follow a father red-tailed hawk in his hunt to feed his family in a suburban neighborhood. A lyrical, fierce, and gorgeous picture book illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Floca. Full color.
Author : Helen Macdonald
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802191673
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year One of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 10), Miami Herald, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top 10), Library Journal (Top 10), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Slate, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, Amazon (Top 20) The instant New York Times bestseller and award-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising one of nature's most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human "discover the pain and beauty of being alive" (People). H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices.
Author : Johnsgard Pa
Publisher : Smithsonian
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 2001-08-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781560989462
A comprehensive reference discusses all aspects of raptors, including their biology, habitat, and behavior, and offers identification information.
Author : William S. Clark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1400885078
The essential field guide to the raptors of Mexico and Central America Raptors are among the most challenging birds to identify in the field due to their bewildering variability of plumage, flight silhouettes, and behavior. Raptors of Mexico and Central America is the first illustrated guide to the region's 69 species of raptors, including vagrants. It features 32 stunning color plates and 213 color photos, and a distribution map for each regularly occurring species. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features, age-related plumages, status and distribution, subspecies, molt, habitats, behaviors, potential confusion species, and more. Raptors of Mexico and Central America is the essential field guide to this difficult bird group and the ideal travel companion for anyone visiting this region of the world. Covers all 69 species of raptors found in Mexico and Central America Features 32 color plates and hundreds of color photos Provides multiple illustrations of each species Depicts and describes variations in plumage by individual, morph, age, and region Describes behavior, food preferences, hunting strategies, vocalizations, and molt Covers rare and extralimital species Includes distribution maps and flight silhouettes
Author : Heather McNemar
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2019-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780578546414
A falconer's account of a season spent squirrel hawking two red-tailed hawks in the foothills of Appalachia in central West Virginia.
Author : Richard Crossley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release :
Category : Bird watching
ISBN : 1400847044
" ... This book changes field guide design to make you a better birder ... The most comprehensive guide : 640 stunning scenes created from 10,000 of the author's photographs ... Lifelike in-focus scenes show birds in their habitats ..."--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Richard Seaton
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 16,38 MB
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1486308686
Birds of prey spend most of their time in flight and, when viewed from the ground, they are notoriously hard to identify. Australian Birds of Prey in Flight is a photographic guide to the eagles, hawks, kites and falcons flying high above you. Individual species profiles describe distinguishing features and the text is supported by detailed images showing the birds at six different angles and poses, using photographs from many of Australia's leading bird photographers. Annotated multi-species comparison plates highlight key features that can help differentiate birds of prey in flight. This book will be of value to anyone who wants to learn more about Australia's birds of prey, and will provide a useful reference for identifying soaring birds in the field, and also while trying to identify images from your own camera.
Author : Todd McCarthy
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802196403
The first major biography of one of Old Hollywood’s greatest directors. Sometime partner of the eccentric Howard Hughes, drinking buddy of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, an inveterate gambler and a notorious liar, Howard Hawks was the most modern of the great masters and one of the first directors to declare his independence from the major studios. He played Svengali to Lauren Bacall, Montgomery Clift, and others, but Hawks’s greatest creation may have been himself. As The Atlantic Monthly noted, “Todd McCarthy. . . . has gone further than anyone else in sorting out the truths and lies of the life, the skills and the insight and the self-deceptions of the work.” “A fluent biography of the great director, a frequently rotten guy but one whose artistic independence and standards of film morality never failed.” —The New York Times Book Review “Hawks’s life, until now rather an enigma, has been put into focus and made one with his art in Todd McCarthy’s wise and funny Howard Hawks.” —The Wall Street Journal “Excellent. . . . A respectful, exhaustive, and appropriately smartass look at Hollywood’s most versatile director.” —Newsweek
Author : James Ferguson-Lees
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780618127627
Plates 1-3 illustrate representatives, in flight, of all 78 genera, grouped by size and zoogeographical regions.".
