Author : Margarita Engle
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 23,16 MB
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0805089373
The story of a young girl living in the Middle Ages who took the time to observe the life cycle of butteflies--and in so doing disproved a theory that went all the way back to ancient Greece. Includes historical note.
Author : Danny Heitman
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 080717369X
Over the summer of 1821, a cash-strapped John James Audubon worked as a tutor at Oakley Plantation in Louisiana’s rural West Feliciana Parish. This move initiated a profound change in direction for the struggling artist. Oakley’s woods teemed with life, galvanizing Audubon to undertake one of the most extraordinary endeavors in the annals of art: a comprehensive pictorial record of America’s birds. That summer, Audubon began what would eventually become his four-volume opus, Birds of America. In A Summer of Birds, Danny Heitman recounts the season that shaped Audubon’s destiny, sorting facts from romance to give an intimate view of the world’s most famous bird artist. A new preface marks the two-hundredth anniversary of that eventful interlude, reflecting on Audubon’s enduring legacy among artists, aesthetes, and nature lovers in Louisiana and around the world.
Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Bird populations
ISBN :
Author : Ali Liebegott
Publisher : Amethyst Editions
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781936932504
A queer poet documents depression and grief in this autobiographical novel-in-verse.
Author : Ted Floyd
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2019
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1426220030
"In this elegant narrative, celebrated naturalist Ted Floyd guides you through a year of becoming a better birder. Choosing 200 top avian species to teach key lessons, Floyd introduces a new, holistic approach to bird watching and shows how to use the tools of the 21st century to appreciate the natural world we inhabit together whether city, country or suburbs." -- From book jacket.
Author : Katherine Catmull
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101591595
An enchanting--and twisted--tale of two sisters' quest to find their parents When their parents disappear in the middle of the night, young sisters Summer and Bird set off on a quest to find them. A cryptic picture message from their mother leads them to a familiar gate in the woods, but comfortable sights quickly give way to a new world entirely--Down--one inhabited by talking birds and the evil Puppeteer queen. Summer and Bird are quickly separated, and their divided hearts lead them each in a very different direction in the quest to find their parents, vanquish the Puppeteer, lead the birds back to their Green Home, and discover the identity of the true bird queen. With breathtaking language and deliciously inventive details, Katherine Catmull has created a world unlike any other, skillfully blurring the lines between magic and reality and bringing to life a completely authentic cast of characters and creatures.
Author : Rebecca Farley-Brown
Publisher :
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Shore birds
ISBN : 9781908819147
Author : Patricia MacLachlan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1596439483
Describes about the early years of Henri Matisse, who grew up in a cold, gray city in northern France and was warmed by the colors of the paints, fabrics, and birds that surrounded him.
Author : Carol Lerner
Publisher : HarperColl
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 1996-03-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780688136017
"Focusing on birds that migrate to northern climes in the summer months, Lerner has created another lovely, informative title for budding ornithologists. As in Backyard Birds of Winter, she combines beautiful watercolor illustrations with lucid prose....A fine introduction; helpful tips on feeders, houses, and appropriate foods; and a list of suggested further readings are included. Careful scholarship and beauty of design make this a first purchase."--School Library Journal.
Author : Jeff Price
Publisher : A & C Black
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780125646604
The North American Breeding Bird Survey comprises a network of regularly censussed, road-based survey routes and constitutes the most comprehensive set of data on the relative abundance and population trends of these birds during the summer months. Its value was highlighted in 1989, when the data were used to confirm suspected population declines in a number of species of neotropical migrants breeding in the northeastern United States and Canada. In this book Jeff and Amy Price and Sam Droege have used these data to create detailed, computer-generated maps showing the relative abundance of 450 species that summer in the contiguous United States and southern Canada. Tabular information on distribution hotspots for these, and a further 50 or so species too local in occurrence to map effectively, are also presented. As a data-based survey, the focus of the maps is on places where occurrence has been systematically confirmed over a number of years. As such, the maps provide a baseline for future and more regionally based studies. Supporting chapters provide details on the survey methodology, the mapping procedures used, and some current concerns in North American bird conservation.
