epub |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Judy Pelikan

Baltimore Oriole The brilliancy of the Baltimore Oriole’s feathers has given him two significant names, Golden Robin and Firebird. The pendent character of his nest has added another, Hangnest. The ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-04 | Author:Stan Tekiela

SUMMER Size: 15" (38 cm) Male: Compact reddish brown body with a black crown and nape. Large bright white cheek patch. Distinctive light blue bill. Long tail, often raised above ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2002-03-04 | Author:Diana Wells

ORIOLE It was not unusual for ancient medical cures to be associated with color absorption, such as wrapping a patient in a red blanket to take away a fever’s fiery ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Larkin Powell

39. Depiction of hunters shooting prairie-chickens, titled “Our first shooting” from W. E. Webb, Buffalo Land (1872). Of course, Weston was writing to sell tickets on the railroad, so we ...

azw3 |eng | 2017-06-30 | Author:Catherine Ngarachu [Ngarachu, Catherine]

OTHER WILDLIFE A great deal of game is managed in this park, including large numbers of buffalo and some of the highest concentrations of black and white rhinos in the ...

epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Edward A. Armstrong

WALES In a version from Carmarthenshire it is emphasized that the Hunt must be conducted in the old way rather than the new. The wren is to be killed with ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-27 | Author:Bo Beolens & Michael Watkins & Michael Grayson [Beolens, Bo & Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael]

L Labat Labat’s Conure Aratinga labati Labat, 1724 EXTINCT [Alt. Guadeloupe Parakeet] Jean Baptiste Labat (1663–1738) was a French missionary, although British 17th-century biographers describe him as a pirate because ...

epub |eng | 2020-12-31 | Author:John James Audubon [Audubon, John James]

“The amount for the present year will be much greater than any of the above. The number of flatboats and keels is beyond calculation. The number of steamboats above the ...

epub |eng | 2018-04-26 | Author:Bruyninckx, Joeri;

Bioacousticians After several years of testing, in 1949 the Cornell recordists abandoned their cumbersome disc cutters and sound-film recorders in favor of portable magnetic recorders. It took the academic community ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:Lyanda Haupt

The Hidden Blue Grouse It is difficult to know what to think of grouse. They have large eyes spaced widely on heads that are too small for their fat, oval ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:Matt Kracht [Kracht, Matt]

Color: Pale yellow belly and brown tail feathers are probably meant to help it blend into its desert surroundings, but it mostly looks like this bird needs to be run ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Aaron Reynolds

OVERBEARING HERON This heron’s primary source of joy is the misfortune of others. And while it always feels like their comeuppance is just around the corner, it never seems to ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-24 | Author:Mark Golley

In flight, the black and white of the Pied Wagtail is very striking. The two white wing bars contrast markedly with the dark wings and wholly black upperparts. The white ...

epub |eng | | Author:Bernd Heinrich

* * * On May 11, the barred owl’s song, who cooks for you, repeated again and again, a turkey tom was gobbling nearby in the still-dark woods, and ovenbirds ...

epub |eng | 2016-11-29 | Author:B.J. Hollars [Hollars, B.J.]

Stanley Temple has hardly left the lectern before Joel Greenberg leaps to take his place. Greenberg is in many ways the opposite of the more reserved Schorger: a loquacious, booming-voiced ...