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English
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An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle...
2) Birds
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Readers will learn what fish are, some of the different kinds, and all about their shared characteristics. Title is filled with cool, full-bleed photographs of the animals and simple sentences. This title is written at a Level 1, specifically for beginning readers" --Amazon.com
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
136 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Become a young ornithologist. Learn all about the scientific study of birds. Author, birder, and outdoors researcher Erika Zambello presents a kids' introduction to bird-watching. With fascinating information for beginners, the book provides readers with an understanding of bird anatomy, life cycles, habitat, and 60 species of backyard birds!" -- Back cover.
This children's guide to birding includes an introduction to ornithology, a bird identification...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 288 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A beautifully illustrated, large-format study of Yellowstone's birdlife, written by a team of renowned Park ornithologists and wildlife biologists"--
"A beautifully illustrated survey of Yellowstone's breathtaking birdlife, written by a team of renowned ornithologists and wildlife biologists. Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park is the oldest and arguably the most famous national park in North America, attracting millions of visitors each...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
ix, 387 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers to show how what they saw (and what they missed) reflects how we perceive and understand the natural world"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Birds and planes don't always get along. What can we do to help? Enter the world of forensic ornithology in this investigative nonfiction title created with the Smithsonian Institution and the Division of Birds at the National Museum of Natural History. Discover the fascinating work of leading ornithologists-"bird detectives" who use science and technology to solve bird strikes and other bird mysteries. They examine evidence from clues like feathers...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xvii, 524 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A thoroughly engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a succession of visionary and often-controversial personalities, and by the unique social and scientific contexts in which these extraordinary individuals worked. This beautifully illustrated book opens in the middle of the nineteenth century when ornithology was a museum-based discipline focused almost exclusively on the anatomy,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo backroads journey to trace the spring migration of songbirds from the southern border of the United States through the U.S. heartland and north into Canada. Traveling via car, canoe, bike, and on foot, Beehler followed migrant wood warblers and other songbirds from the Texas coast, up the Mississippi drainage to its headwaters in Minnesota and onward to the birds' nesting grounds in the north...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 353 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the rapidly accelerating scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Traveling with his Cambridge tutor John Ray, they decided to overhaul the whole of natural history by imposing order on its messiness and complexity. It was exhilarating, exacting, and exhausting work. Yet before their first book, Ornithology, could be completed, Willughby died in 1672. Since then, Ray's reputation has grown,...
16) Bird study
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Outlines requirements for pursuing a merit badge in bird study.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A celebration of the diversity and evolution of birds, as depicted in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's magnificent 2,500-square-foot Wall of Birds mural by artist Jane Kim. Part homage, part artistic and sociological journey, The Wall of Birds tells the story of birds' remarkable 375-million-year evolution. With a foreword by John W. Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and full of lush photographs of gorgeous life-size birds painted...
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