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Far from Land by Michael Brooke
epub |eng | 2018-06-24 | Author:Michael Brooke

Figure-of-8 migration routes of 16 Short-tailed Shearwaters tracked from Great Dog Island, Tasmania. Reproduced with permission of BirdLife Australia, from the work cited in Note 19, Chapter 6. * * ...
( Category: Ornithology June 25,2020 )
A Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country by David Williams
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:David Williams

A canyon deer mouse’s fur color varies depending upon environment, ranging from black in lava-rich areas to gray in granitic regions to reddish in canyon country. In southeast Utah, canyon ...
( Category: Reference May 9,2020 )
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
azw3 |eng | 1999-09-30 | Author:Janisse Ray [Ray, Janisse]

Clay McDonald was almost of legal age. How could I, a girl, stop him from brutalizing an animal? The taste of the turtle’s blood was in my mouth or I ...
( Category: Ecology April 22,2020 )
Rivers of Power by Laurence C. Smith
epub |eng | 2020-04-21 | Author:Laurence C. Smith [C. Smith, Laurence]

Rivers in China and Southeast Asia are being engineered at a massive scale. Highlighted here are China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project (with east, central, and western routes), shunting water from ...
( Category: Historic April 21,2020 )
Under the Stars by Dan White
epub |eng | | Author:Dan White

Robin Bliss-Wagner gave me a precise and elegant blueprint for building a debris shelter. When I call this thing a “shelter,” I am being too kind. Really, it was just ...
( Category: Natural History April 14,2020 )
Life Through the Ages II by Mark P. Witton;
epub |eng | 2020-03-14 | Author:Mark P. Witton;

Cretoxyrhina and Pteranodon (Cretaceous) WE TEND TO PORTRAY THE MESOZOIC ERA AS THE TIME OF GREAT sea reptiles—ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, and so on. While there is little doubt that these ...
( Category: Paleozoology March 30,2020 )
The Incredible Journey of Plants by Stefano Mancuso
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Stefano Mancuso [Mancuso, Stefano]

. 4 . TIME TRAVELERS type species Date Palm – domain Eukaryota – kingdom Plantae division Magnoliophyta – class Liliopsida – sub-class Arecidae order Arecales – family Arecaceae – subfamily ...
( Category: Natural History March 27,2020 )
The Devil's Cormorant by Richard J. King
epub |eng | | Author:Richard J. King

Since these cormorants were nesting in the Florida Keys, we know they belong to what wildlife managers now call the Southern population of double-crested cormorants, a subspecies (P. auritus floridanus). ...
( Category: Birdwatching March 24,2020 )
Desert Notes and River Notes by Barry Lopez
epub |eng | 1990-08-01 | Author:Barry Lopez [Lopez, Barry]

1954 A storm came this year, against which all other storms were to be measured, on a Saturday in October, a balmy afternoon. Men in the woods cutting firewood for ...
( Category: Natural History March 23,2020 )
LIZARD MAN: The True Story of the Bishopville Monster by Blackburn Lyle
epub |eng | 2013-10-21 | Author:Blackburn, Lyle [Blackburn, Lyle]

Sheriff Truesdale with the “haunted” ax (photo courtesy of Lee County Observer ) An even stranger legend is that of the Bishopville Giant. This being was said to have stalked ...
( Category: Unexplained Mysteries March 23,2020 )
The Next Species by Michael Tennesen
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Tennesen

11 PREDATORS WILL SCRAMBLE OVER THE LAST 600 million years, during most of the extinction events, predators were the last to go. During the Cretaceous extinction, which knocked out the ...
( Category: Natural History March 22,2020 )
Teaching Big History by Simon Richard B
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Simon, Richard B.

ACTIVITIES AND EXERCISES FOR TEACHING THRESHOLD 8 TRADING ON THE STOCK MARKET * * * Martin Anderson Threshold Related to the Activity: Threshold 8 Category of Activity: Learning activity Objective: ...
( Category: Social Studies March 22,2020 )
The Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson
epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Sylvain Tesson [Tesson, Sylvain]

APRIL 14 The winter just won’t quit. Last night: 5° F. No sign of a thaw. Snowflakes fall from dawn to dusk, making a silky rustling. I spend the day ...
( Category: Natural History March 22,2020 )
Listening to the Wind by Tim Robinson
epub |eng | 2019-03-21 | Author:Tim Robinson

THE ROBINSON ERA In the aftermath of the Famine the ruined communities of the Martin estate, quarrelled over by their rivalrous spiritual leaders and deserted by the last representatives of ...
( Category: Natural History March 22,2020 )
A Year of Forest School by Jane Worroll
epub |eng | 2018-03-21 | Author:Jane Worroll

Collecting wild food and cooking on an open fire develops fine motor skills, encourages good hygiene and raises awareness of nutrition. It is a truly ancient activity that links us ...
( Category: Butterflies March 21,2020 )

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