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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Katie Fallon

West Virginia is hands down the most beautiful place on earth. Once Jesse and I crossed into Kanawha County and entered the state forest, the road became paved and wound ...

epub, mobi |ara, eng | 2014-08-13 | Author:Michele Raffin

NINE Mail-Order Bride On those TV reality shows about animal rescue, the abuses are often appallingly clear—emaciated dogs and cats, skeletal horses, all delivered from their suffering by uniformed officers ...

epub |eng | | Author:Julie Zickefoose

I realized that simply posting the areas and leaving it at that would be inadequate to protect the birds. I’d have to provide a consistent presence that reinforced the barriers. ...

epub |eng | | Author:William Souder [Souder, William]

In the spring of 1826, Audubon was at last ready to go. He packed up more than four hundred drawings, put $1,600 of his and Lucy’s savings into his pocketbook, ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Burgess, Thornton W. [Burgess, Thornton W.]

BOOMER THE NIGHTHAWK Look for him in the air late in the afternoon. Peter shook his head. "I've seen him on the ground," said he, "but I never have seen ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Margaret Stanger

I tried it. I tried it several times. When out there by herself, she paid no attention to a choice ant, she did not go into the geranium bed—she just ...

epub |eng | 2010-08-24 | Author:Dyan DeNapoli

13 Peter, Pamela, and Percy’s Long Swim Home—The World Anxiously Watches It’s the biggest dilemma I’ve had to face in my life. If we hadn’t fenced in the island, the ...