Shorebirds
Author: Peter Hayman
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1991-06-28
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 0713635096
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Learning About Shorebirds
Author: Sy Barlowe
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2021-06-23
Total Pages: 17
ISBN-13: 0486845842
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Learn about 12 fascinating birds found along shores, including the black skimmer, laughing gull, common tern, and other popular species. A page of easy-to-read text provides interesting facts about each bird. Includes stickers.
Shorebirds in Action
Author: Richard Chandler
Publisher: Whittles
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781849953559
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A copiously illustrated account by an acknowledged expert of all the major aspects of the fascinating lives of shorebirds. This is a unique collection of photographs covering 80% of the world's species illustrating the many and varied aspects of shorebirds' behaviour.
The Shorebird Guide
Author: Michael O'Brien
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780618432943
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When many birders go out looking at shorebirds, they see a distant mud flat full of grayish brown birds in various shapes and sizes and have no idea where to begin the identification process. When advanced birders look at that same flock of shorebirds, they can identify the vast majority of birds with a quick binocular scan. Experts use the simplest, most easily observed characteristics--size, structure, behavior, and general color patterns--almost subconsciously, and can identify most birds even before looking carefully at plumage details. Now birders of all levels can learn how to identify these wildly popular birds quickly and with much less effort. This guide provides more than 870 stunning color photographs, sequenced to give a general impression of a species first and progressing to a more detailed image of the bird throughout its life cycle. Captions list characteristics in order of importance, reflecting the thought process that experts use to identify birds.
Stokes Beginner's Guide to Shorebirds
Author: Donald Stokes
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2001-07-18
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780316816960
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A pocket-size, brilliantly colorful, simple-to-use guide to shorebirds, containing dozens of full-color photographs that enable readers of all ages to identify the most common species; range maps; tips on the best times to view shorebirds, information on habitat needs, life cycle, food preferences; and much more.
Shorebird Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Author: Dr. Mark A. Colwell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2010-11-16
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0520947967
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shorebirds are model organisms for illustrating the principles of ecology and excellent subjects for research. Their mating systems are as diverse as any avian group, their migrations push the limits of endurance, and their foraging is easily studied in the open habitats of estuaries and freshwater wetlands. This comprehensive text explores the ecology, conservation, and management of these fascinating birds. Beginning chapters examine phylogenetic relationships between shorebirds and other birds, and cover shorebird morphology, anatomy, and physiology. A section on breeding biology looks in detail at their reproductive biology. Because shorebirds spend much of their time away from breeding areas, a substantial section on non-breeding biology covers migration, foraging ecology, and social behavior. The text also covers shorebird demography, population size, and management issues related to habitat, predators, and human disturbances. Throughout, it emphasizes applying scientific knowledge to the conservation of shorebird populations, many of which are unfortunately in decline.
Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia
Author: Richard J. Chandler
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated guide to all 134 shorebird species found in the Northern Hemisphere includes key identification features, age and sex differences, variations in plumage, similar species, status, habitat, and distribution.
Arctic Shorebirds in North America
Author: Jonathan Robert Bart
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-08-02
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0520273109
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"/i/Arctic Shorebirds in North America//i/ represents a study that is one of the remarkable achievements of wildlife fieldcraft, like those done by Aldo Leopold in the 1930s and by the Craighead Brothers in the 1960s. To conduct a study of this scientific caliber in the great expanse and harsh climate of the Arctic makes it one of the great wildlife investigations whose value will only grow with time."--Larry Niles, Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey "It is most timely that Jonathan Bart and Victoria Johnston have gathered information on shorebirds that breed in the Arctic regions of North America. Data on these birds is generated at a wide range of locations by many different individuals and teams, and this book puts it into perspective. It is particularly valuable to have this treatise when so many shorebird species worldwide are in marked decline."--Clive Minton, Australasian Wader Studies Group "When the PRISM program for pan-Arctic shorebird monitoring was introduced, everyone agreed with its laudable aims, but it seemed impractical. How could shorebird biologists with limited time and resources acquire robust data on the size and trend of shorebird populations across the American Arctic? Now, the credibility gap has been bridged. /i/Arctic Shorebirds in North America//i/ presents the rigorous, practical methods that will be the foundation of Arctic shorebird monitoring for years to come. I look forward to Arctic PRISM becoming the keystone of shorebird conservation in the Western Hemisphere."--Humphrey Sitters, editor of /i/Wader Study Group Bulletin//i/
Horseshoe Crabs and Shorebirds
Author: Victoria Crenson
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Published: 2013-06-20
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9780761455523
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents a portrait of the Delaware Bay in the spring when a wide variety of animals, including minnows, mice, turtles, raccoons, and especially migrating shorebirds, come to feed on the billions of eggs laid by horseshoe crabs.
I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird
Author: Susan Cerulean
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2020-08-01
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 0820357383
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Susan Cerulean’s memoir trains a naturalist’s eye and a daughter’s heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time, the book explores an activist’s lifelong search to be of service to the embattled natural world. During the years she cared for her father, Cerulean also volunteered as a steward of wild shorebirds along the Florida coast. Her territory was a tiny island just south of the Apalachicola bridge where she located and protected nesting shorebirds, including least terns and American oystercatchers. I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird weaves together intimate facets of adult caregiving and the consolation of nature, detailing Cerulean’s experiences of tending to both. The natural world is the “sustaining body” into which we are born. In similar ways, we face not only a crisis in numbers of people diagnosed with dementia but also the crisis of the human-caused degradation of the planet itself, a type of cultural dementia. With I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird, Cerulean reminds us of the loving, necessary toil of tending to one place, one bird, one being at a time.
