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Birds of New York City by Cal Vornberger
epub |eng | 2017-03-27 | Author:Cal Vornberger [Vornberger, Cal]

Stilt Sandpiper The Stilt Sandpiper is a small sandpiper often confused with a Dowitcher because they are of roughly the same size and the two birds are often found in ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 18,2018 )
A Shadow Above by Joe Shute
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Shute

As fast as I can, I pack away my tent and clamber back up the cliffs to safety. I look behind me to see the seal, but it has already ...
( Category: Field Guides March 18,2018 )
Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew by John Pickrell & John Pickrell
mobi |eng | 2017-03-07 | Author:John Pickrell & John Pickrell [Pickrell, John]

The pygmy polar T. rex Fiorillo manages Alaska’s other long-running dinosaur research program and, along with his colleagues at the Perot Museum in Dallas, has been coming here nearly every ...
( Category: Field Guides March 18,2018 )
A Sweet, Wild Note by Richard Smyth
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Smyth

Any respectable medieval musicologist, fished from the grave to address one of the most vexed questions in birdsong study, would tell you definitively that birdsong is not music. In the ...
( Category: Field Guides March 17,2018 )
Birds of the West Indies by G. Michael Flieg
epub |eng | 2017-03-17 | Author:G. Michael Flieg

Male (left); female (right) A large hummingbird, yellowish-green above. The male has blackish underparts and a brilliant green gorget. The female is the only hummingbird in its range with whitish ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 17,2018 )
3 Among the Wolves by Helen Thayer
epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Helen Thayer

A favorite game is to race full speed through the stream, dousing playmates along the way. We were delighted to see that the wolves didn’t mind Charlie’s occasional interaction with ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 16,2018 )
The Meaning of Birds by Simon Barnes
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Barnes

Eagles operate as a fierce aspect of spirituality. For some spiritual purposes, all eagles are snake eagles: emblems of nobility and aspiration that regularly cleanse the world of the evil ...
( Category: Field Guides March 14,2018 )
Nature’s Allies by Nature's Allies
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Nature's Allies

( Category: Activities, Crafts & Games March 14,2018 )
Wildlife of the Arctic by Richard Sale
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Sale

Gulls are long-lived and take time to mature, the smaller gulls sometimes breeding in their second year, the larger ones not until they are four or five years old. Juveniles ...
( Category: Polar Regions March 14,2018 )
Scarlet Experiment by Karnicky Jeff;
epub |eng | 2016-08-25 | Author:Karnicky, Jeff; [Karnicky, Jeff]

4 Nuisance and Neighbor The Canada Goose September 20, 2004: Lancaster, Pennsylvania The small signs in Greenfield Corporate Center Park say, “Do not feed the ducks, geese, or swans.” Mostly ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
RSPB Spotlight Kingfishers by David Chandler
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:David Chandler

Top and bottom: Once early courtship is complete, male Kingfishers will present their partner with fish, perhaps several times a day. Is monogamy the only way? For the Kingfisher, monogamy ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
Winter Birds by Lars Jonsson
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Lars Jonsson

When, in connection with this book, I resumed my acquaintance with some species which are absent in the Gotland fauna, the Marsh Tit was found to be less common in ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead
azw3 |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Tim Birkhead [Birkhead, Tim]

In 1989, Jack Dumbacher, a PhD student at the University of Chicago, made a remarkable discovery: he found the world’s first distasteful bird. Jack was studying Raggiana birds of paradise ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 14,2018 )
The Blackbird Diaries by Karen Lloyd
epub |eng | 2017-10-11 | Author:Karen Lloyd [Lloyd, Karen]

* * * 11 Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze, Vintage, 2010. Eight The World Aglow July 1 Waiting by the slipway in Tobermory. Dr Conor Ryan of the Hebridean Whale ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
The Robin by Stephen Moss
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Moss

The same principle, incidentally, applies to swallows, though that has a stronger basis in meteorology, as the flying insects they hunt will generally stay closer to the ground when bad ...
( Category: Field Guides March 13,2018 )

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