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Wild Catalina Island by Carlos de la Rosa Frank Hein
epub |eng | 2018-12-12 | Author:Carlos de la Rosa, Frank Hein

When plates collide! This close-up shows the forces that ultimately led to the formation of Catalina and the Channel Islands. Courtesy of Gary Jacobson . Alone at sea, Catalina emerged ...
( Category: Conservation March 15,2020 )
RSPB Spotlight Sparrows by Amy-Jane Beer
epub |eng | 2019-03-13 | Author:Amy-Jane Beer

Perfectly at home – House Sparrows seldom nest more than a few metres from human settlements, and actively prefer buildings in which people still live. Tree Sparrow nest sites The ...
( Category: Ornithology March 14,2020 )
Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle by Charles Darwin
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

page 265 Recapitulation. —I will recapitulate the principal facts with regard to the climate, ice-action, and organic productions of the southern hemisphere, transposing the places in imagination to Europe, with ...
( Category: Natural History March 13,2020 )
Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads by Asma Stephen T
epub |eng | 2001-03-10 | Author:Asma, Stephen T.

I wandered a bit more through Cuvier’s collection and eventually found Heidi staring at a shockingly bright orange-and-red orangutan specimen. The glass case was part of the “Respiratory” series, and ...
( Category: Natural History March 11,2020 )
Dancing with Bees by Brigit Strawbridge Howard
epub |eng | | Author:Brigit Strawbridge Howard

CHAPTER 11 Seeking the Great Yellow Bumblebee, Part 1 I do so enjoy watching nature documentaries. Like millions of other viewers, I am awestruck by the exotic and diverse wildlife ...
( Category: Entomology March 11,2020 )
Wolves and Honey by Susan Brind Morrow
epub |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:Susan Brind Morrow

( Category: Mid Atlantic March 10,2020 )
New Guinea by Bruce M. Beehler;Tim Laman;
epub |eng | 2020-01-30 | Author:Bruce M. Beehler;Tim Laman;

A male Lesser Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea minor) displays in a lowland rainforest near Oransbari, WNG. This species typically displays in a communal lek of two or more males in ...
( Category: Plants & Animals March 9,2020 )
The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude by Howard Axelrod
epub |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Howard Axelrod [Axelrod, Howard]

The week after the party, I found myself taking more walks than usual, examining faces more closely beneath the porticoes on Via Irnerio. Wherever I went, Milena’s presence felt close ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 9,2020 )
Slugs and Snails by Robert Cameron
epub |eng | 2016-10-13 | Author:Robert Cameron

The Cotswold woods are a particularly easy habitat to search. On limestone, numbers can be very large, and a relatively small amount of effort is required to get a good ...
( Category: Natural History March 9,2020 )
Venomous Snakes of Texas by Andrew Price
epub |eng | 2009-03-08 | Author:Andrew Price

Fig. 26. Mojave rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus scutulatus). Photo by Mike Price Fig. 27. Known occurrences, by county, of the Mojave rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus scutulatus). Fig. 28. Rattlesnake patterning. HABITAT This ...
( Category: Reptiles & Amphibians March 9,2020 )
A Season on the Wind by Kenn Kaufman
epub |eng | | Author:Kenn Kaufman

10 This Slice of Sky During my years of obsession with bird migration, I have often brought up the subject in conversations with total strangers. I’ve found that most people, ...
( Category: Bird Field Guides March 6,2020 )
Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver by Frances Backhouse
epub |ara | 2015-09-30 | Author:Frances Backhouse [Backhouse, Frances]

kl .Seven. ONE MADE BEAVER The beaver dangled from a chain looped around its left foreleg and thrown over a rafter. It was the first thing I noticed as I ...
( Category: Wildlife March 6,2020 )
Exceptional Mountains by O. Alan Weltzien
epub |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:O. Alan Weltzien [Weltzien, O. Alan]

5 Wilderness and Volcanoes A small share of the American people have an overpowering longing to retire periodically from the encompassing clutch of mechanistic civilization. . . . To them, ...
( Category: Natural History March 5,2020 )
Monarchs and Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution by Anurag Agrawal
epub |eng | 2017-03-07 | Author:Anurag Agrawal [Agrawal, Anurag]

FIGURE 7.1. Three seed-eating milkweed insects: (a) The large and small milkweed bugs, Oncopeltus fasciatus and Lygaeus kalmii, and (b) the weevil, Rhyssomatus lineaticollis. The feeding beaks of the bugs ...
( Category: Entomology March 5,2020 )
Mindfulness in Nature by Nina Smiley
epub |eng | 2017-05-29 | Author:Nina Smiley

In all things of nature, there is something marvelous. ARISTOTLE NATURE IS ALL AROUND us, if we’re willing to perceive it. From the sunlight we feel on our skin as ...
( Category: Natural History March 5,2020 )

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