Wings: A Flock in the Wild
Author : Eliezer Flameheart
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Page : pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2017
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ISBN : 9783743817036
Author : Eliezer Flameheart
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Page : pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2017
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ISBN : 9783743817036
Author : Herbert Keightley Job
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Page : 382 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Birds
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Author : Helen Macdonald
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0802146694
The New York Times–bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this “dazzling” essay collection (Wall Street Journal). In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.
Author : Mark Bittner
Publisher : Crown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 030742247X
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is the inspiring story of how one man found his life’s work—and true love—among a gang of wild parrots roosting in one of America’s most picturesque urban settings. Mark Bittner was down on his luck. He’d gone to San Francisco at the age of twenty-one to take a stab at a music career, but he hadn’t had much success. After many years as an odd-jobber in the area, he accepted work as a housekeeper for an elderly woman. The gig came with a rent-free studio apartment on the city’s famed Telegraph Hill, which had somehow become home to a flock of brilliantly colored wild parrots. In this unforgettable story, Bittner recounts how he became fascinated by the birds and made up his mind to get to know them and gain their trust. He succeeds to such a degree that he becomes the local wild parrot expert and a tourist attraction. People can’t help gawking at the man who, during daily feedings, stands with parrots perched along both arms and atop his head. When a documentary filmmaker comes along to capture the phenomenon on film, the story takes a surprising turn, and Bittner’s life truly takes flight.
Author : Bernd Heinrich
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Birds
ISBN : 9780544387638
The acclaimed scientist/writer's captivating encounters with individual wild birds, yielding "marvelous, mind-altering" insights and discoveries
Author : John Bumstead
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Fowling
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Author : Frank S. Stuart
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 1952
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Birds
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Author : Scott Weidensaul
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0393608913
New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year An exhilarating exploration of the science and wonder of global bird migration. In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the highest mountains, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch has exploded. What we’ve learned of these key migrations—how billions of birds circumnavigate the globe, flying tens of thousands of miles between hemispheres on an annual basis—is nothing short of extraordinary. Bird migration entails almost unfathomable endurance, like a sparrow-sized sandpiper that will fly nonstop from Canada to Venezuela—the equivalent of running 126 consecutive marathons without food, water, or rest—avoiding dehydration by "drinking" moisture from its own muscles and organs, while orienting itself using the earth’s magnetic field through a form of quantum entanglement that made Einstein queasy. Crossing the Pacific Ocean in nine days of nonstop flight, as some birds do, leaves little time for sleep, but migrants can put half their brains to sleep for a few seconds at a time, alternating sides—and their reaction time actually improves. These and other revelations convey both the wonder of bird migration and its global sweep, from the mudflats of the Yellow Sea in China to the remote mountains of northeastern India to the dusty hills of southern Cyprus. This breathtaking work of nature writing from Pulitzer Prize finalist Scott Weidensaul also introduces readers to those scientists, researchers, and bird lovers trying to preserve global migratory patterns in the face of climate change and other environmental challenges. Drawing on his own extensive fieldwork, in A World on the Wing Weidensaul unveils with dazzling prose the miracle of nature taking place over our heads.
Author : John BUMSTEAD
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Page : 306 pages
File Size : 31,20 MB
Release : 1869
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