Birds of Loudoun
Author: Spring Ligi
Publisher:
Published: 2019-02-28
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780983945833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Bird Guide Based on the 2009-2014 Loudoun County, Virginia Bird Atlas
Author: Spring Ligi
Publisher:
Published: 2019-02-28
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780983945833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Bird Guide Based on the 2009-2014 Loudoun County, Virginia Bird Atlas
Author: Christine Sheppard
Publisher:
Published: 2015-11-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781495180392
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James M. Goode
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1588343316
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Metropolitan areas change over the time. These changes come together and create a city's character and personality. Renowned Washington, DC, historian James Goode has assembled an incredible collection of images that look back at a Washington before it developed into the international metropolitan city it is today. The impactful historic photography exposes the elements of the DC metro area that have disappeared- the dairy farms of Loudoun County, the railroad round house in Alexandria, and model boats on the Rainbow Pool on the National Mall, as well as provide startling different views of areas and neighborhoods that still exist. The majority of these images have never been published, and under the curatorial eye of James Goode have been put together in a way that give readers a better understanding of the city Washington DC was, and the city it was to become."
Author: Jennifer Ackerman
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0735223033
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. “There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries –– What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communicate, forage, court, breed, survive. They are also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, abilities we once considered uniquely our own: deception, manipulation, cheating, kidnapping, infanticide, but also ingenious communication between species, cooperation, collaboration, altruism, culture, and play. Some of these extraordinary behaviors are biological conundrums that seem to push the edges of, well, birdness: a mother bird that kills her own infant sons, and another that selflessly tends to the young of other birds as if they were her own; a bird that collaborates in an extraordinary way with one species—ours—but parasitizes another in gruesome fashion; birds that give gifts and birds that steal; birds that dance or drum, that paint their creations or paint themselves; birds that build walls of sound to keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special call—and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness and the evolution of laughter. Drawing on personal observations, the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world, from the tropical rainforests of eastern Australia and the remote woodlands of northern Japan, to the rolling hills of lower Austria and the islands of Alaska’s Kachemak Bay, Jennifer Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect, in plumage, form, song, flight, lifestyle, niche, and behavior, birds vary. It is what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said, when you have seen one bird, you have not seen them all.
Author: Nancy Lawson
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2017-04-18
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1616896175
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.
Author: Kim Long
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781555662004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"An illustrated presentation of [owl] behavior, biology, and individual characteristics. A practical resource for both the backyard and the field, this combination illustrated field guide, fact book, and folklore collection presents an accurate, informative portrait of owls in their natural habitat, as well as an examination of the relationship between owls and humans."--Back cover.
Author: Marc Acito
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780573701221
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This play recounts the story of two chinstrap penguins who meet in the Central Park zoo. They partner, adopt an egg, and raise a chick together. Based on the temporarily banned book, 'And Tango makes three,' by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson.
Author: Kirsten Bakis
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 2017-05-09
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0374537143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When a race of elegant, superintelligent dogs arrives in twenty-first-century New York, they become instant celebrities, but, unable to adjust to the modern world and confronted with an incurable disease, they construct a fantastic castle and barricade themselves inside.