Field Guides
epub |eng | | Author:Lorin Lindner

SEVEN A Sailor’s Story The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have ...
( Category: Field Guides May 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-05 | Author:Mary Colwell

And alone in the night’s eternal, curving act They yearn with tongues of curlews for the unconceived. But the curlew is also a raucous member of life’s rich menagerie, which ...
( Category: Hunting & Fishing May 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Steve Braunias

A hen Bellbird, Little Barrier, 25.2.48 Birdland THE AIR WAS full of feathers and cries – all across the country. I began writing about birds in my weekly column in ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology May 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Garret Romaine

There is a good report on this district by Dings and Robinson (1957, pp. 83-85) USGS Professional Paper 289. They report that pyritic quartz veins up to 50 feet thick ...
( Category: Earth Sciences May 1,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lawrence Anthony

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Three days later the call came in from Vincent Otti on a satellite phone somewhere deep in the jungles of the Congo. ‘Mr Anthony, the situation is bad. ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 27,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:Kirk Wallace Johnson

* * * – Dr. Robert Prys-Jones and Mark Adams arrived, not appearing excited to discuss the events of June 23, 2009, especially with a refugee advocate moonlighting as an ...
( Category: Field Guides April 24,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-16 | Author:Jon Young

Historically, a dichotomy has been drawn between the semantic communication of human language and the apparently emotional calls of animals. Current research paints a more complicated picture. Just as scientists ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 22,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-04-19 | Author:John Reilly

CHAPTER 16 The Sapayoa’s Story ODD ONE OUT Asoft musical trill emanates from deep within the nearby foliage, only to be followed by a long and frustrating silence. We are ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-01 | Author:James Patterson & Florence Yue & James Madsen

Why do they call this a catwalk? Careful, don’t waddle too close to the edge! Jackson Haddock Fish Stick What birdbrain came up with this? Of all the icebergs in ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Megyesi, Jennifer, Hansen, Geoff

As helper Bev O’Neill, left, cuts off the chickens’ heads while they are in one of three killing cones, butcher Ralph Persons guts the birds after their feathers have been ...
( Category: Engineering April 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:Gavin Francis [Gavin Francis]

My copy of The Worst Journey in the World is in two volumes, a reprint by Penguin that came out in 1937, some fifteen years after the first edition. ‘I ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Mark Golley

Bird Bread Pudding Bird food recipes are, often as not, successful variations on a theme. This recipe certainly follows in the footsteps of other bread pudding recipes that have come ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-07 | Author:Traer Scott [Scott, Traer]

SWAINSON’S HAWK — The Swainson’s hawk once suffered from a case of mistaken identity, when an early specimen drawing was misidentified as a common buzzard. Several years later, in 1832, ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-07 | Author:Shewey, John; Blount, Tim;

Parasitic Jaeger range Adult breeding Parasitic Jaeger in flight ALCIDS, GULLS, TERNS, AND JAEGERS Pomarine Jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus) Bulky and gull-like, the Pomarine Jaeger is the largest and most common ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Olivia Gentile

In spite of how excited she’d been about her trip to the Manu reserve in Peru—her first trip after the hysterectomy—she didn’t end up having a good time. In a ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 7,2018 )