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13621 | The Bluebird Effect Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds | $28.00 |
| Publication scheduled for: 3/20/2012 | |||
| AUTHOR: ZICKEFOOSE, Julie | |||
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Julie Zickefoose lives for the moment when a wild, free-living bird that she has raised or rehabilitated comes back to visit her; their eyes meet and they share a spark of understanding. Her reward for the grueling work of rescuing birds - such as feeding baby hummingbirds every twenty minutes all day long - is her empathy with them and the satisfaction of knowing the world is a birdier and more beautiful place. The Bluebird Effect is about the change that’s set in motion by one single act, s . . . |
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13622 | Peterson Field Guides: The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of North America | $15.95 |
| Publication scheduled for: 4/24/2012 | |||
| AUTHOR: Thompson, Bill III | |||
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With The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern Northern America, Bill Thompson helped spawn a new generation of bird watchers and created the ideal field guide for children and beginning birders alike. Now, he has expanded the scope of that guide to cover the entirety of North America (north of Mexico). Retaining the same visually appealing design, this expanded guide has 100 additional species that inhabit western North America. Now including 300 of the most common birds on the continent, t
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13611 | Sibley Backyard Birding Flashcards: 100 Common Birds of Eastern and Western North America | $14.99 |
| Publication scheduled for: February 7, 2012 | |||
| AUTHOR: SIBLEY, David Allen | |||
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Learn to identify your backyard birds with the help of leading ornithologist David Sibley. Inside you'll find one deck of 50 common Western and Eastern North American birds and one deck of 50 common birds found across North America. Each card features vibrant illustrations and captions about behavior and voice description for easy identification. From leading ornithologist David Sibley, this flashcard deck is designed for the beginner and backyard bird watcher. . . . |
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13623 | Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America | $32.00 |
| Publication scheduled for: 4/3/2012 | |||
| AUTHOR: Beadle, David; Leckie, Seabrooke | |||
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While other nature lovers might go bird watching, David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie go mothing, with a sheet and a lamp to attract the bugs. Here, they share their vast knowledge in the most comprehensive guide to moths on the market. There are more than 1,500 species of moths in the northeast of North America, and while it might seem that they are all drab grays and browns, there is actually a startling variety. Many have swirls and swaths of pinks, yellows, and violets. There are moths wit . . . |
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13625 | What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World | $22.00 |
| Publication scheduled for: 5/8/2012 | |||
| AUTHOR: Young, Jon | |||
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Jon Young’s ear- and eye-opening research begins with a simple premise: if you sit quietly, for as long as it takes nearby birds to stop worrying about you, you can begin to hear what they say to one another and understand what it means. The techniques in What the Robin Knows will help readers to expand their zone of awareness while shrinking their zone of disturbance. Birds are the sentries for other animals: the animals attend to the birds’ warnings their language and behaviors, such as the . . . |
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13626 | Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death | $25.00 |
| Publication scheduled for: 6/19/2012 | |||
| AUTHOR: Heinrich, Bernd | |||
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When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his green burial at Bernd Heinrich’s hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist/author to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal world deal with the flip side of the life cycle? And what are the lessons, ecological to spiritual, raised by a close look at how the animal world renews itself? Heinrich focuses his wholly original gaze on the fascinating doings of creatures
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13654 | Birding Trails Texas: Gulf Coast | $29.95 |
| Publication scheduled for: 11/15/2012 | |||
| AUTHOR: Foster, Jim | |||
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The Texas Gulf Coast is one of the most outstanding birding locations in North America. From whooping cranes to sandhill cranes, ducks, geese, raptors and the hundreds of song birds that migrate every year to the Texas Gulf make this a birder's paradise. There are numerous public sites that make for easy birding. Each year, during the last week of February, there is a Whooping Crane Festival in Port Aransas and Mustang Island that attracts thousands of birders. It features workshops, demonstrati
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13579 | Birds of Argentina and the South-West Atlantic. Two-volume set | $98.00 |
| Publication scheduled for: 2013 | |||
| AUTHOR: Pearman, Mark | |||
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Due to issues with the illustrations and the maps, publication of this book has been delayed, but we hope to see it completed and ready for publication in 2013. Argentina is one of South America's premier birding destinations, encompassing a wide range of habitats from lush rainforests and vast pampas grasslands to the extensive wetlands of the Pantanal and the windswept wilderness of Tierra del Fuego. Birds of Argentina contains detailed, authoritative text, up-to-minute maps and more th . . . |
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13641 | The Armchair Birder Goes Coastal: The Secret Lives of Birds of the Southeastern Shore | $26.00 |
| Publication scheduled for: 5/1/2012 | |||
| AUTHOR: YOW, John | |||
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With his distinctively witty, anecdotal, and disarming voice, John Yow now journeys to the shore and shares his encounters with some of the most familiar and beloved coastal birds. Out of his travel--from North Carolina's Outer Banks, down the Atlantic coast, and westward along the Gulf of Mexico--come colorful accounts of twenty-eight species, from ubiquitous beach birds like sanderlings and laughing gulls to wonders of nature like roseate spoonbills and the American avocets. Along the way, Yow
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13605 | How to Be a Better Birder | $19.95 |
| Publication scheduled for: 4/2/2012 | |||
| AUTHOR: LOVITCH, Derek | |||
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This unique illustrated handbook provides all the essential tools you need to become a better birder. Here Derek Lovitch offers a more effective way to go about identification the calls it the Whole Bird and More approach that will enable you to identify more birds, more quickly, more of the time. He demonstrates how to use geography, an understanding of habitats, ecology, and even the weather to enrich your birding experience and find something out of the ordinary. Lovitch shows how to track no
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13590 | Birds of Sri Lanka. Helm Field Guides | $39.50 |
| Publication scheduled for: 3/1/2012 | |||
| AUTHOR: Warakagoda, Deepal; Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp and Tim Inskipp | |||
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Price to be determined. With a rich avifauna of more than 350 species that includes 29 endemics, the island of Sri Lanka is one of southern Asia's most popular birding destination. This new field guide provides full coverage of every species on the Sri Lanka list, including most vagrants, with particular emphasis placed on endemic species and races. Detailed text highlights key identification criteria, along with accurate colour maps. Packed with spectacular and detailed plates by lead . . . |
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13583 | Birds of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan | $39.50 |
| Publication scheduled for: 8/15/2012 | |||
| AUTHOR: Manuel Schweizer, Raffael Aye and Tobias Roth | |||
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A comprehensive and portable field guide to all the birds of Central Asia. Concise descriptions are provided for every species, highlighting plumage variation and distinctions from similar species.
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13582 | Birds of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao | $27.95 |
| Publication scheduled for: 2/1/2012 | |||
| AUTHOR: Bart De Boer, Eric Newton and Robin Restall | |||
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The Netherlands Antilles comprises three main islands off the coast of northern Venezuela. These are Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire . They are major tourist destinations, especially popular with divers, and also attract many visitors from Holland and elsewhere. The colour plates are based on the bestselling Birds of Northern South America, but many new images have been painted specially for this book. The authoritative text highlights the key features needed to identify each species in the field, an
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13581 | Birds of Melanesia: Bismarcks, Solomons, Vanuatu and New Caledonia | $49.95 |
| Publication scheduled for: 2/1/2012 | |||
| AUTHOR: Dutson, Guy | |||
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This new Helm Field Guide covers the species-rich Melanesia region of the south-west Pacific, from New Caledonia and the Solomons through the Bismarks to Vanuatu, a popular destination for tours and travellers and one that has never before had field-guide coverage. The cover star is the Kagu, the region's most iconic bird species and a highly sought-after endemic of New Caledonia. 75 superb color plates illustrate the 650 species that occur in the region, allied with concise identification text . . .
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13522 | Gamebirds of Southern Africa | $27.50 |
| Publication scheduled for: September , 2011. | |||
| AUTHOR: LITTLE, Rob; CROWE, Tim | |||
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This lavish book presents the 21 upland gamebird species from southern Africa: francolins and spurfowls (12 species), quails (3 species), guineafowls (2 species) and sandgrouse (4 species). The authoritative text is matched by detailed and beautifully illustrated plates of each species. An essential book for bird and art lovers, as well as the conservation-minded. The text draws on the large body of scientific research accumulated over decades, and the illustrated plates of each species are w . . . |
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13116 | Birds of Mongolia | $35.00 |
| Publication scheduled for: 2013 | |||
| AUTHOR: Gombobaatar, Sundev; Bräunlich, Axel; Boldbaatar, Sh. | |||
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Publication, originally scheduled for November 2010, has been delayed indefinitely due to serious issues with the manuscript. The current expectation is that this guide will be published in 2013. Birds of Mongolia is the first guide to describe and illustrate all of the country's bird species. This huge landlocked country encompasses a diverse range of habitats, including forests, mountains, vast plains, and the Gobi Desert, and this geographical diversity is mirrored in the country's vari . . . |