epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David McCullough

* * * 1 Reportedly it was Senator Hanna who put Roosevelt on to Cromwell. “You want to be very careful, Theodore,” Hanna is supposed to have advised in fatherly ...

epub |eng | 1999-03-26 | Author:Diane Scarazzini

Feeding the Chicks The Problem of Imprinting Imprinting is a natural process that occurs with wild birds — to survive in the natural environment, each must learn the social skills ...

epub |eng | 2003-03-25 | Author:Simon Winchester

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Mary Roach [Roach, Mary]

In the weeks that followed, Barbet went through twelve more arms in a quest to find a suitable point in the human wrist through which to hammer a 1/3-inch nail. ...

epub |eng | 1984-03-25 | Author:Mavis Harper

Debeaking and Cannibalism Game birds have very sharp beaks that must be trimmed from time to time. Chukar, especially, grow long beaks that interfere with their ability to pick up ...

epub |eng | 1997-03-25 | Author:Dale Evva Gelfand

California fuchsia These bold succulents with fleshy, sword-shaped leaves and giant flower spikes are highly prized desert hummingbird plants. Plant them in well-drained sandy soil in full sun. Columbine (Aquilegia ...

epub |eng | 1981-03-25 | Author:Olwen Woodier

Cuckoos Yellow-billed: brown above, white below with black splotches under tail; chestnut pinion feathers; 11″. Black-billed: similar with less distinct tail spots and chestnut wing markings; 11″. Plant preferences; elder, ...

epub |eng | | Author:David Attenborough

Elliot’s Bird of Paradise. Hand-coloured lithograph by Joseph Wolf and Joseph Smit from G. D. Elliot’s Monograph of the Paradiseidae (1873). Elliot’s Bird of Paradise. Hand-coloured lithograph by William Hart ...

azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Matthew Hughes

Chapter Eight Bol adjusted the apparatus and the sphere shrank and dimmed further, but did not disappear. He stroked his chins in what I now understood to be a characteristic ...

mobi |eng | 2007-07-16 | Author:Heinrich, Bernd [Heinrich, Bernd]

14 INSECTS: FROM THE DIVERSITY TO THE LIMITS It seems astounding to us that some frogs can survive months being frozen, or that a bird as small as a kinglet ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Rashelle Johnson

Breed Selection: How to Select the Right Breed of Chicken There are a lot of difficult decisions that have to be made when you start raising chickens. One of the ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-11-27 | Author:Sue Grafton

Chapter 12 * * * In the ladies' room, she turned on the faucet and splashed some cold water in her eyes. I pulled out a paper towel and passed ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-11 | Author:Robert Twigger

The attentions paid to von Kettler allowed Herr Cordes, wounded in both thighs, enough time to escape and make his way back to the foreign legation. Von Kettler s body ...

mobi, epub |fr | 2009-03-05 | Author:Tom Zoellner

Taking a break during the twelve-hour shift was unthinkable. Many skipped lunch, preferring to drill at the walls instead. And going aboveground to use the toilet was a sure ticket ...

azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-16 | Author:Kirby, David [Kirby, David]

23 Tilly’s Willy One of John Jett’s biggest regrets in his life was that on that December day in 1995 when his best friend, Jeff, got fired from SeaWorld, he ...