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Price: $1.75
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Sale: $1.13
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Manufacturer: Primer Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sharon Nelson::Richard Nelson
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Publisher: Primer Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 598
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Publication Date: 1991-12
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Reading Level: 32
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Description: In clear and concise language and drawings, these booklets describe the common species the reader is likely to come across in Southwestern terrain.
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $0.96
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Don Stap
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 598.159
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Publication Date: 2006-06-15
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: Many of us have experienced the interruption, pleasant or otherwise, of a bird singing from high in the trees or a lone chirper perched outside a bedroom window and wondered what the song was about. Following a world expert on birdsong from the woods of Martha's Vineyard to the tropical forests of Central America, Don Staop brings to life the quest to unravel this ancient mystery: Why do birds sing and what do their songs really mean?
In this creative mixture of reportage, storytelling, and research, Stap distills the complexities of the study of birdsong and unveils a remarkable discovery that sheds light on the mystery of mysteries: why young birds in the suborder oscines--the "true" songbirds--must learn their songs while closely related birds are born with their songs genetically encoded. As the story unfolds, Stap contemplates our enduring fascination with birdsong, from ancient pictographs and early Greek soothsayers to the story of Mozart's pet starling. He identifies birds by their specific sounds and calls, and explains the true function of a bird's song, from mating calls to claims of territory.
In a modern, noisy world, it is increasingly difficult to hear the sounds of nature around us. Exploring birdsong takes us to that rare place--in danger of disappearing forever--where one hears only the planet's oldest music.
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Manufacturer: Booklines Hawaii Ltd
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Walther
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Publisher: Booklines Hawaii Ltd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 598.09969
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Publication Date: 1996-05
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Reading Level: 64
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Price: $14.56
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Sale: $14.56
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Manufacturer: Arlequin Publications
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jon King::Graham Hearl
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Publisher: Arlequin Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 598.0723446754
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Publication Date: 1995-03
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Reading Level: 76
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $2.07
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Manufacturer: Frog Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alan Powers::Susan Mohl Powers
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Publisher: Frog Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 598.1594
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Publication Date: 2002-12-27
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: For the last 20 years, Alan Powers, who lives near Cape Cod, has experimented with birdcalls—mimicking and answering the calls he hears around his country home, in cities, and abroad in France and Italy. In BirdTalk, he celebrates this connection with entertaining allusions to history, literature, travel, linguistics, and other fields. The result is a charming and erudite stroll through an area of interest sometimes lost in the urban din. Powers reveals “birdtalk” by mapping the history of ornithological studies, quoting such bird fanciers as Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson and discussing specific techniques. In one of the most amusing chapters, he describes his attempts to teach the birds new symphonic riffs on their own calls. This illustrated literary inquiry into birdcalls is a nature book with a gift-book look.
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Price: $14.99
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Sale: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Crescent
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Roger Tory Peterson
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Publisher: Crescent
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Dewey Decimal Number: 598.2
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Publication Date: 1989-01-13
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Reading Level: 272
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Price: $60.00
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Sale: $7.94
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Manufacturer: Graphis Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Doyle Partners
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Publisher: Graphis Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 778
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Publication Date: 2001-11
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Reading Level: 128
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $5.39
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Manufacturer: Cool Springs Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Cool Springs Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 598
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Publication Date: 2008-09-01
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Reading Level: 90
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Description: This handsome field guide has over 100 entries showcasing the 60 most popular birds of the Mid-Atlantic including Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Delaware. It includes how to attract birds to feeders, full-color illustrations of both male and female birds, and instructions on the most effective placement of feeders. Finally, an illustrated map of habitat and migration patterns will increase your knowledge and understanding of these beautiful birds.
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Tony D. Williams
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 598.441
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Publication Date: 1995-05-18
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Reading Level: 312
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Description: Beautifully illustrated and magnificently comprehensive, The Penguins is the most authoritative guide on the subject available. Restricted to the Southern Hemisphere (but abundant in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions), the Penguins are highly specialized marine divers, spending much of their lives at sea. Penguins have shown an amazing ability to adapt physiologically, behaviorally, and ecologically to often extreme environments, ranging from the snow and ice of Antarctica to the hot, desert-like islands of the equatorial Galapagos. Living in colonies containing thousands and even tens of thousands of other penguins, they are highly social on land, using elaborate visual and vocal displays in courtship and breeding. The first part of the book provides an overview of the family as a whole, describing their origins and evolution, distribution, breeding biology and moult, foraging ecology, behavior, and conservation. The second part features 17 species accounts, each of which contains a complete description of the bird in its natural state. Each account is based on the best information available and the author's own research. This volume--as with others in the Bird Families of the World series--will be indispensable to professional and amateur ornithologists alike.
Bird Families of the World is a new multivolume series of handbooks that will prove indispensable to both the professional scientist and the ever-growing body of amateur ornithologists. Each volume will provide a comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge on one bird family or several related families. In each book the reader will find: six to nine general chapters on the biology, feeding ecology, breeding behavior, evolutionary relationships, and conservation of birds in the family; specially commissioned color plates by a leading artist; black-and-white illustrations of anatomy and behavior; descriptions of each species that cover appearance, weight, measurements, field characters, voice, habitat, food, breeding behavior, life cycle, range, and status (with distribution map). Together they provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date species-level information available.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $13.95
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Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: STUART B. MCIVER
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Publisher: University Press of Florida
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.95834160975939
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Publication Date: 2003-10-31
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: Death in the Everglades chronicles the demise of one of 20th-century Florida's most enduring folk heroes. The murder of Guy Bradley represents a milestone not only in the saga of the Everglades but also in the broader history of American environmentalism. This fascinating biography of his abbreviated but eventful life is emblematic of the struggle to tame the Florida frontier without destroying it. As Stuart McIver unfolds the story behind this little-known crime, he also provides a window into Florida history during the creation of modern South Florida. Born in Chicago in 1870, Bradley moved to Florida as a young boy in 1876. Nineteen years later his father became associated with the developer and railroad magnate Henry Flagler, and in 1898 the family moved to the isolated coastal village of Flamingo. Situated on the southeastern fringe of the Everglades, Flamingo was a flash point in an emerging ecological battleground that drew the Bradleys and other pioneer families into a conflict later dubbed "the Plume Wars." At the turn of the century, the mass killing of egrets and other plume birds for feathers to adorn women's hats was a serious concern among the nation's growing cadre of environmentalists, especially among those who belonged to the Audubon Society, a conservation organization founded in 1886. In 1901, at the urging of Audubon Society leaders and the American Ornithologists' Union, the Florida legislature enacted a bird protection law that provided for the hiring of local game wardens, and a year later Guy Bradley assumed the dual role of Monroe County's game warden and deputy sheriff. For the next three years, from 1902 to 1905, Bradley matched wits and sometimes weaponswith an array of plume hunters and other nefarious characters, some of whom were strangers but many of whom were friends or acquaintances of the warden or his family. In the end, Bradley was shot and killed by Walter Smith, a man he had known for nearly a decade. How this murder came about, what happened to Smith and others left behind, and how Bradley's demise and subsequent controversies affected the environmental movement are intriguing questions that frame McIver's richly textured narrative. With the instincts and skills of a master storyteller, McIver--long one of Florida's most historically-minded journalists--has recaptured a tale for the ages, a story of personal sacrifice and collective awakening that altered the course of the state's natural and human history.
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