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Books help us learn to identify birds by sight and sound. They deepen our understanding of birds' lives and help us enjoy birds more in our own backyards.
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Birds of the West Indies by James Bond
This classic hardcover book is the only complete identification guide to West Indian birds from Grand Bahama Island in the North to Granada in the South – a tropical north avifaunal region which includes such species as the tiny Bee Hummingbird (only 2 ½ inches long), parrots, honey-creepers and toadies. For every species (except vagrants, rare winter visitors or transients, listed on pp. 240-3) there are notes on diagnostic characters, local names, voice, habitat, nidification and range. Eighty are illustrated by Don Eckelberry, 56 by Arthur Singer and 186 Black and White by Earl Poole. This guide will be a great boon to professional and amateur even traveler with the most casual interest in birds. Mr. Bond's volume is intended for quick reference and is planned to enable the birds of the West Indian islands to be identified with the minimum of trouble and minimum of description. The pages are in excellent condition, with no writing except the name of original author inside front cover. The dust jacket has some tears, as shown in the photo. Learn More -
$9.95Life Histories of North American Flycatchers, larks, Swallows, and their Allies: Order Passeriformes, by Arthur Cleveland Bent Ornithologist Arthur Cleveland Bent complied a 21-book masterpiece on the birds of North America. The individualed species accounts includes Bent's own writing as well as accounts he gathered from other ornithologists and observers. This Dover edition was first published in 1965. Product details Paperback Condition: Almost new, unmarked copy. Slight shelf wear. Slight shelf wear. No underlining, writing, or highlighting. Language : English
Paperback : 411 pages plus 47 pages of black-and-white illustrations ISBN : 0-486-21085-5 Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.25 x 8.5 inches Learn More -
$2.95This is the story of the Little Wind, who lives by a sky-blue lake in the mountains. A fable, written by Diane Porter and illustrated by Donna Seibert Miller. Paper cover, 16 pages. Published by Ideaform Press. NOTE: for some reason, which we do not understand, it seems impossible to order this book along with any other product. So if you want a copy, please make a separate order. If that causes extra shipping cost, please send an email to [email protected], and we'll take care of it. Learn More -
$39.95Identification Guide to North American Birds. Part II: Anatidae to Alcidae — Book by Peter Pyle Published 2008 A compendium of information on identifying, ageing, and sexing passerines and near-passerines in the hand. While of primary utility to banders, the wealth of information is of interest to both birdwatchers and ornithologists. Part II This is highly technical guide for researchers, used for bird banding, which includes data for 395 species and 857 subspecies. The data includes plumage, molt patterns, measurements (wing, tail, bill, tarsus, mass), sexing, and ageing information Learn More -
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology Handbook of Bird Biology Second Edition Call it Bird University. This gloriously illustrated volume provides comprehensive college-level information about birds and their environments in a style accessible to nonscientists and teachers the world over. The book is in almost new condition, without highlighting, underlining, notes, etc. It includes the Audio CD that accompanies Chapter 7. There are minor blemishes on the cover. This is the 2nd Edition. There is a 3rd Edition, which this one is not. Learn More -
$9.95The Iowa Breeding Bird Atlas (Bur Oak Book) — Pre-owned Paperback Book by Laura Spess Jackson (Author), James J. Dinsmore (Contributor), Carol A. Thompson (Contributor) The Iowa Breeding Bird Atlasthe first comprehensive statewide survey of Iowa's breeding birdsprovides a detailed record of the composition and distribution of the avifauna of the Hawkeye State. The atlas documents the presence of 199 species, 158 of which were confirmed breeding.
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This landmark volume alerts Iowans to the limited distribution of numerous species and serve as a guide to the management practicessuch as forest and wetland management, set-aside programs, reduction in farm chemical use, and crop diversitywhich could help insure that many future changes are positive ones. The Iowa Breeding Bird Atlas provides a welcome and much-needed baseline for future comparisons of changes in Iowa's birdlife and, by extension, the lives of all animals in the state.
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Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey, PART ONE, by Arthur Cleveland Bent — Almost-new Book
$9.95Sparrows of the United States and Canada: The Photographic Guide — Paperback Book (Princeton Field Guides) Paperback – Illustrated, October 11, 2009 by David Beadle and James D. Rising A classic work of ornithology, originally published in 1961. It is in almost new, unmarked copy. It shows slight shelf wear. One copy available. The book gives detailed information on the identification of species, sexes, ages, races, and forms of all the sparrows, towhees, juncos, buntings and longspurs, grassquits and seedeaters of North America. It also covers distribution, habits, habitats, molt, and voice. Particular attention is paid to the geographic variation found in many species and to comparisons with similar and confusing species. Over 350 black-and-white photographs aid in the identification of all 64 taxa of Emberizine sparrows found in the region. Learn More -
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Birds of Tropical America: A Watcher's Introduction to Behavior, Breeding, and Diversity Author: Steven Hilty Paperback – Illustrated 312 pages April 1, 2005 Learn More -
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BIRD LIFE, by Frank Chapman, 1901 Bird-Life ~ A Guide To The Study Of Our Common Birds, by Frank M. Chapman with 75 Color Plates - Published 1901 by D. Appleton and Company. It's hard to find an intact copy from 1901. Condition. Book is in better condition than you would expect for a book of its age. The outside cover is not torn or creased. There is some wear and some bubbling on the inside of the cover. Inside the covers, the end papers are somewhat cracked (see photos), but the book is intact and fairly tight. The front page has an inscription to "Mother," written very lightly in pencil and dated May 4, 1901. No notes on other pages. Clearly this book has been lovingly read and treasured. Learn More -
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Children & Other Wild Animals, by Brian Doyle Children and Other Wild Animals: Notes on badgers, otters, sons, hawks, daughters, dogs, bears, air, bobcats, fishers, mascots, Charles Darwin, newts, tigers and various other zoological matters. In Children and Other Wild Animals, bestselling novelist Brian Doyle (Mink River, The Plover) describes encounters with astounding beings of every sort and shape. These true tales of animals and human mammals (generally the smaller sizes, but here and there elders and jumbos) delightfully blur the line between the two. Paperback. 175 pages. Published by Oregon State University Press, first edition Learn More
