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RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds by Simon Harrap
epub |eng | 2012-04-07 | Author:Simon Harrap

MEDITERRANEAN GULL • Larus melanocephalus • 37 cm Once an extreme rarity, now an increasingly common breeding species and widespread on passage and in winter, but finding a ‘Med Gull’ ...
( Category: Birdwatching April 8,2016 )
Basic Texas Birds by Mark W. Lockwood
epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:Mark W. Lockwood

Golden-fronted Woodpecker, male. Photo by Tim Cooper. YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER Sphyrapicus varius BACKGROUND Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers and the other species in the genus are well known for drilling rows of relatively shallow ...
( Category: Ornithology April 8,2016 )
Astonishing Animals by Tim Flannery
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Flannery

Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) Great-tailed triok (Dactylopsila megalura) SOMETIMES THE environment exerts similar evolutionary pressures on different animals, so that over time they end up looking remarkably similar. A striking case ...
( Category: Zoology April 7,2016 )
A History of Birdwatching in 100 Objects by David Callahan & David Callahan
epub |eng | 2014-04-21 | Author:David Callahan & David Callahan

51 : Ernest Holt newspaper cutting 1928 Further inspiration for the travelling birder and photographer came from illustrated reports of bird-seeking expeditions like those of Ernest Holt, which demonstrated the ...
( Category: Birdwatching April 7,2016 )
The Wolverine Way by Douglas H. Chadwick
epub |eng | 2012-04-05 | Author:Douglas H. Chadwick

After the country melted out, Copeland flew once a week to get radio locations. “Then we’d go in on the ground to try to follow the animals,” he explained. “The ...
( Category: State & Local April 6,2016 )
The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Wendell Berry [Berry, Wendell]

* She did continue to do “housework,” of course. But we must ask what this had come to mean. The industrial economy had changed the criterion of housekeeping from thrift ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays April 5,2016 )
Barn Owl by Jim Crumley
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-04-04 | Author:Jim Crumley [Jim Crumley]

THREE THE POSSIBILITIES OF broken-open tree trunks were the barn owl’s first resort for nest sites, as now (after centuries of dependency on the cast-off buildings of the people, and ...
( Category: Birdwatching April 5,2016 )
Birdology by Sy Montgomery
epub |eng | 2010-04-02 | Author:Sy Montgomery

An eager hunting partner flies to master falconer Nancy Cowan’s glove. In her short lifetime, Smoke has not yet killed a pheasant, but she has chased three. Her first time ...
( Category: Ornithology April 3,2016 )
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray
epub, pdf |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:John Gray [Gray, John]

1 SAVIOURS The Buddha promised release from something we all understand – suffering. By contrast, no one can say what was humankind’s original sin, and no one understands how the ...
( Category: Humanism April 3,2016 )
Tales from the Underground by David Wolfe
epub |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:David Wolfe [DAVID W . WOLFE]

To determine whether his worms could hear, Darwin got the entire family involved. He noted that the worms “took not the least notice of the shrill notes of a metal ...
( Category: Natural History April 3,2016 )
Alex & Me by Irene Pepperberg
epub |eng | | Author:Irene Pepperberg

Not too long before we left Chicago, Alex gave me a terrible scare. In early September 1990, I returned from a short trip and found a message from a student ...
( Category: Ornithology April 2,2016 )
Eco-Sex by Stefanie Iris Weiss
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Stefanie Iris Weiss [Weiss, Stefanie Iris]

Music, Sweet Music A 2008 study conducted by Dr. Michael Miller, director of preventative cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, reported that blood vessel diameter improved ...
( Category: Environmental April 2,2016 )
A Certain Curve of Horn by John Frederick Walker
epub |eng | 2002-04-01 | Author:John Frederick Walker

THE IDEA OF anyone shooting Angola’s great endangered antelope had made Anne Dodgson livid. “I’d like to post a reward on the Internet for turning in anyone who killed a ...
( Category: Mammals April 2,2016 )
The Rarest Bird in the World by Vernon R L Head
epub |eng | 2016-03-27 | Author:Vernon R L Head

Ian I first knew only through his many books. The day I first met the great Ian Sinclair I was nervous, and also humbled by his presence as part of ...
( Category: Birdwatching April 1,2016 )
David Suzuki's Green Guide by David Suzuki
epub |eng | 2008-03-30 | Author:David Suzuki [Suzuki, David]

SWITCH TO CLEANER FUELS Because of climate change, concerns about running out of oil, and rising gas prices, there is growing interest in alternative fuels. Potential substitutes for gasoline include ...
( Category: Conservation March 31,2016 )

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