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Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
epub |eng | 2009-07-26 | Author:Lyanda Lynn Haupt [HAUPT, LYANDA LYNN]

With this is mind, I turn back to my own disgruntled helper at the nest, who, in spite of her scowl, trots dutifully behind me, handing me clothespins as I ...
( Category: Birds June 12,2015 )
The Homing Instinct by Bernd Heinrich
epub |eng | | Author:Bernd Heinrich

A just-hatched broad-winged hawk on a freshly inserted green fern frond. No greens are added during the month-long incubation, but after the young hatch, the greens are brought almost daily ...
( Category: Entomology June 12,2015 )
Backyard Bird Photography by Mathew Tekulsky
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Mathew Tekulsky

Hooded Oriole A couple of hours later, the fledgling flew up into a tree alongside the patio and since the bird was directly above me, I could not tilt my ...
( Category: Reference June 10,2015 )
Wake-Robin
mobi |eng | | Author:Burroughs, John [Burroughs, John]

* * * V SPRING AT THE CAPITAL WITH AN EYE TO THE BIRDS I came to Washington to live in the fall of 1863, and, with the exception of ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays May 30,2015 )
Gods of the Morning by John Lister-Kaye
epub |eng | | Author:John Lister-Kaye

11 The Long Wait When Springtime came, red Robin built a nest, And trilled a lover’s song in sheer delight. Grey hoarfrost vanished, and the Rose with might Clothed her ...
( Category: Wildlife May 27,2015 )
Welcome to Subirdia by John M. Marzluff
epub |eng | 2014-05-22 | Author:John M. Marzluff [Marzluff, John M.]

Evolutionary responses to urbanization are not the sole province of birds and mammals. Insects and amphibians also evolve strategies to urban life. Color changes in response to urban pollution are ...
( Category: Wildlife May 25,2015 )
Three Among the Wolves: A Couple and Their Dog Live a Year With Wolves in the Wild by Helen Thayer
mobi |eng | 2004-04-06 | 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: Mammals April 5,2015 )
Life at the Zoo by Phillip T. Robinson
epub |eng | 2011-12-22 | Author:Phillip T. Robinson

Tapeworm life cycle in a zoo bear Wild animals frequently recover from a wide variety of infections and injuries during their lifetimes, although any serious injury can make an individual ...
( Category: Zoology March 21,2015 )
The Company of Wolves by Peter Steinhart
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Peter Steinhart [Steinhart, Peter]

Things seemed to be going well. But in January 1989, at a meeting in Atlanta of the red-wolf recovery team, David Mech raised the old question of hybridization. Says Phillips, ...
( Category: Mammals March 4,2015 )
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Helen Macdonald

16 Rain WHITE IS MAKING a trap. It is not easy. There is a testing practicality to this that pleases him. He has stripped an ash-wand of bark and bent ...
( Category: Birdwatching March 3,2015 )
The Helm Guide to Bird Identification by Keith Vinicombe
epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Keith Vinicombe

Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla Flight identification Juvenile and first-winter are superficially similar to the equivalent plumages of Little Gull, both species showing a large black ‘W’ across the wings in flight. ...
( Category: Birdwatching February 11,2015 )
0-In the Beginning by Peter David
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Peter David

~ chapter 10 ~ Let me tell you about Dr. Stephen Franklin. A more dedicated, hard-working, and occasionally sanctimonious Human I cannot recall meeting. He was in charge of the ...
( Category: Fantasy January 29,2015 )
Michaela's Choice
epub |eng | 2012-11-27 | Author:Lisa Harris

Eight The following Saturday, after the breakfast dishes were washed and put away, Michaela saddled up Honey and headed over to the Johnson farm. The wind blew through the trees, ...
( Category: Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions January 29,2015 )
Why Did the Chicken Cross the World? : The Epic Saga of the Bird That Powers Civilization (9781476729916) by Lawler Andrew
epub |eng | | Author:Lawler, Andrew

On a sunny June day in 1951, ten thousand chicken fans filled Razor­back Stadium at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville in the culmination of a nationwide effort to create ...
( Category: Food Science January 10,2015 )
A White Heron and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Sarah Orne Jewett

The Town Poor MRS. WILLIAM TRIMBLE and Miss Rebecca Wright were driving along Hampden east road, one afternoon in early spring. Their progress was slow. Mrs. Trimble’s sorrel horse was ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )

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