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This CD contains 723 bird sounds of Mexican birds. Total playing time is about 6 hours! The CD contains 650 species, and 725 tracks. Play it on your CD-Player, PC, or MP3 player. Together with the MP3-CD you will get a printable 20-page booklet (as a PDF on the disc) including a manual how to use the MP3-CD, a complete species list, and information on date and locality for every recording. Complete printable booklet in PDF on CD. By Peter Boesman 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 -
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Raptors of Mexico and Central America Hardcover – Illustrated, March 28, 2017 by William S. Clark (Author), N. John Schmitt (Author) 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. Learn More -
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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 -
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If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in bird nests, or what happens after a fledgling leaves the nest, your questions will be answered in this book by the America's premier bird artist, Julie Zickefoose. This beautiful book is as much an art book as it is a natural history. Over 400 watercolor paintings show the breathtakingly swift development of seventeen different species of wild birds. Sixteen of those species nest on Julie's wildlife sanctuary. She knows the birds intimately and writes about them with authority. Hardcover book 352 pages Signed by the author Learn More -
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Backyard Birdsong Guide Eastern & Central - Book with Audio by Donald Kroodsma From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, this is the widely acclaimed bird audio field guide series. It is created by award-winning ornithologist and author Donald Kroodsma. If you're a beginning bird watcher, this book has a touch-button electronic module with vocalizations of 75 commonly-encountered of eastern and central North America. This is a very effective way to identify and get to know local birds. Beautiful, accurate pictures accompany each entry. Up-to-date range maps let you know if the bird is expected where you are. The introduction inspires you to look out your windows and go outside birding. This unique book gives people of all ages an exciting entryway into the subtle art of using birdsong to identify birds. Publisher: Princeton University Press/The Cornell Lab Publishing Group Language : English Hardcover : 192 pages ISBN-10 : 1943645019 ISBN-13 : 978-1943645015 Item Weight : 1.28 pounds Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches Learn More -
$39.95The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World 3d Edition Edited by Edward C Dickinson Condition: New Pages: 1039 Edition: 3rd Copyright Richard Howard and Edward C. Dickenson, 2003 Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0-691-11701-2 This is a not a field guide. It has no illustrations or descriptions of what birds look like. It is a list of all the birds of the world, organized in the Howard and Moore taxonomic sequence. Learn More -
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Bird Feathers: A Guide to North American Species Illustrated Paperback Book, by C. David Scott Over 400 photos of representative feathers from 379 species How to identify not only what bird a feather came from but also what kind of feather it is Range maps and wing type given for each bird. This guide teaches birders to use the characteristics of wing types and feather morphology to identify feathers not only by species but also by their place on the bird's body. The introductory chapters give a detailed overview of the feather — how feathers developed, the parts of a single feather, and the variety of types of feathers on a bird. In the feather identification section, more than 400 color photographs show feather samples from 379 bird species from all over North America. Along with the wing type of the species and a map showing its range, several types of feathers are included for each bird; each feather is labeled with its type and its size. 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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