Author: Jim Carpenter
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781935622611
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Carpenter offers practical tips and solutions to attracting and identifying birds. He offers suggestions for the best foods for the birds you want to see, and even tells you how to deter unwanted guests to feeding stations. You'll also learn how to properly store bird food, and how to prevent window strikes.
Author: Kate Rowinski
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Published: 2011-02-08
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1616081228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More than 50 million birders can't be wrong. No matter where you live, you have the joy of hearing and seeing birds. This easy-to-use, full-color guide will provide you with the answers. Here you'll learn how to identify different bird species by observing their body-parts, understand birds' behavior and habits, get to know the birds around the home or a vacation spot, attract and make a good home for these new feathered friends, and much more Designed especially for the home birdwatcher, but with information on destination vacations, this book teaches, "If you're prepared to see them, they will come "
Author: Chuck Bernstein
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781592660261
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marybeth Lima
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2019-05-08
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0807171581
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This candid and humorous chronicle shows how one woman goes from casual observer to obsessive bird nerd as she traverses Louisiana’s avian paradise. In Adventures of a Louisiana Birder, readers follow Marybeth Lima across her adopted state in search of 300 species of birds. Bisected by the Mississippi flyway and home to 400 miles of coast, Louisiana has a variety of habitats, which serve as a beautiful backdrop to this remarkable journey. In birding circles, some devotees attempt what is known as a “big year,” a bird-sighting challenge to identify as many bird species as possible in a particular geographical area over the course of one year. Lima’s initial effort amounted to 11,626 miles in sixty-one road trips to log an impressive 280 species. But on a subsequent quest to exceed her record, she endures elusive birds, embarrassing misidentifications, and hungry insects in an effort to reach her goal. In the midst of these obstacles, Lima celebrates the camaraderie and friendly competition among fellow birders, from novices to a world-renown ornithologist. Requiring both mental focus and physical agility, birdwatching becomes an active sport through Lima’s narration. She vividly conveys the elation over a rare species seen or heard and the disappointment when one is narrowly missed. An appendix provides the location and date of every species she identifies. Lima’s personal experiences are interwoven with the excitement of tracking down one intriguing species after another. She faces a near-fatal burn accident to her spouse, end-of-life care for her mother-in-law, and Louisiana’s great flood of 2016. In the midst of these situations, her devotion to birding provides a much-needed outlet. “Somewhere in the roiling confluence of birds, locales, and human personalities,” writes Lima, “the center of my heart sings with utter abandon.” Adventures of a Louisiana Birder is the author’s call to a deeper passion for and awareness of Louisiana’s unique natural beauty and vulnerability.
Author: Larry Sheehan
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 030771635X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A book with 200 full-color photos and a series of anecdotes shows how bird enthusiasts showcase their love of birds in and around their homes. By the author of Living With Dogs.
Author: Chuck Bernstein
Publisher:
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781592660278
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jonathan K. Alderfer
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781426201356
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers tips and advice for how to improve bird watching skills, from choosing equipment and guides to where to watch and what features to look for when trying to identify a bird.
Author: Heather Wolf
Publisher: The Experiment
Published: 2016-06-14
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1615193138
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bright lights, big city, and . . . birds? The Brooklyn Bridge once overshadowed a decaying industrial waterfront, but today it points the way to a new green oasis: Brooklyn Bridge Park. When avid birder Heather Wolf moved from tropical Florida to a nearby apartment, she wondered how many species she might see there, and soon came to a surprising realization: Not only is the park filled with an astonishing variety of birds, but the challenges that come with urban birding make them even more fun—and rewarding—to find. Camera in hand, Heather has captured scores of memorable scenes—a European starling pokes its head out of a hole in a snack shop, a marsh wren straddles two branches, common grackle nestlings clamor for food above the basketball courts—in more than 150 stunning photographs that will entrance birders and bird lovers, wherever their local patch may be. From the familiar-but-striking bufflehead duck to the elusive mourning warbler, every species comes to life on the page, foraging, nesting, and soaring in the slice of the city where they’ve made themselves at home. Discover the thrilling adventure of birding in the great outdoors—in the heart of Brooklyn.
Author: Garrett Putman Serviss
Publisher:
Published: 1890
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13:
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