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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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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 -
$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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