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13702 | A Visitor's Guide to South Georgia, Second Edition | $29.96 |
| Sally Poncet & Kim Crosbie | |||
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This is the only illustrated guide specifically tailored to the needs of visitors to this remote and captivating part of the world, and it is the ideal book for armchair naturalists. A Visitor's Guide to South Georgia features hundreds of color photographs of the diverse wildlife and breathtaking scenery to be found at this unique tourist destination. It includes extensive and up-to-date coverage of all wildlife groups--from albatrosses and petrels to seals and penguins--as well as color maps . . . |
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13814 | Epic Journeys: Tracking the Migrations of Shorebirds in the Western Hemisphere [DVD] | $20.00 |
| Shawn Carey and Jim Grady | |||
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Each year millions of shorebirds make an amazing round-trip journey between the Northern and Southern hemisphere. Migration Productions’ newest video, Epic Journeys, looks at three shorebird species - Red Knot, Piping Plover and Semipalmated Sandpiper - and the challenges these species face during each of their monumental annual treks. Interviews and footage were shot on Plymouth Beach and South Beach in Massachusetts, the Bay of Fundy in Canada, and Cape May/Delaware Bay area in New J . . . |
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13820 | Birds of Southern California | $19.95 |
| Garrett, Kimball L. ; Dunn, Jon L. ;Small, Brian E. | |||
| Here is your guide to the birds of Southern California....one of the country's top birding destinations. This bird guide features: Bird descriptions by acclaimed Southern Califronia authors and bird experts, Kimball L. Garrett and Jon L. Dunn. 550 Stunning color photographs of the birds, most by renowned wildlife photographer and author, Brian E. Small. Learn how to identify the local birds, where they live, and what they eat. Record your observations on each page. Compact enough to fit in your . . . | |||
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13735 | National Geographic Birdwatcher's Bible: A Complete Treasury | $40.00 |
| Alderfer, Jonathan | |||
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Science - Know-how - Beauty - Lore. A lighthearted and broadly cultural and visual approach to learning everything there is to know about birds, bird-watching, birds in history and the arts, and life on the wing. Short narrative pieces are interspersed with sidebars, quotes, top-ten lists, and how-to instructions. Illustrated with photographs, contemporary and archival art, maps, and diagrams, the book has lots of cross-references and riches to find on every page. Bird Watcher's Bible Bird . . . |
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13732 | Birds of Paradise: Revealing the World's Most Extraordinary Birds | $50.00 |
| Laman, Tim & Scholes, Edwin | |||
| Legendary naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace once observed, The bird of paradise really deserves its name and must be ranked as one of the most beautiful and most wonderful of living things. In this dazzling photo essay, Tim Laman and Edwin Scholes explain why, presenting gorgeous full-color photographs of all 39 species of the Birds of Paradise that highlight their unique and extraordinary plumage and mating behavior. The authors take you into the depths of the remote New Guinea rainforest to fin . . . | |||
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13709 | A World in One Cubic Foot: Portraits of Biodiversity | $45.00 |
| David Liittschwager | |||
| For A World in One Cubic Foot, esteemed nature photographer David Liittschwager took a bright green metal cube - measuring precisely one cubic foot - and set it in various ecosystems around the world, from Costa Rica to Central Park. Working with local scientists, he measured what moved through that small space in a period of twenty-four hours. He then photographed the cube’s setting and the plant, animal, and insect life inside it—anything visible to the naked eye. The result is a stunning port . . . | |||
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13700 | Birds of the Masai Mara | $27.95 |
| Adam Scott Kennedy | |||
| Birds of the Masai Mara is a remarkably beautiful photographic guide featuring the bird species likely to be encountered by visitors to the popular Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. With an eye-catching layout, easy-to-use format, and no-jargon approach, the book contains more than 300 stunning photographs covering over 200 species of birds and is accessible and informative, rather than purely identification-based. A handy, brief introduction provides visitors with background on the habitats . . . | |||
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13751 | Pizzey & Knight: The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, Ninth edition | $75.00 |
| Graham Pizzey, Edited by Sarah Pizzey. Illustrated by Frank Knight | |||
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Graham Pizzey (1930-2001) was highly regarded among professional and amateur ornithologists. The longevity of The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, first published in 1980 and now in its ninth edition, is testament to his life-long interest in natural history and conservation. Including 2500 beautiful illustrations by renowned natural-history artist Frank Knight, the Field Guide is not only an essential resource for bird-watchers but a valuable record of Australian birdlife. Compre . . . |
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13583 | Birds of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan | $39.50 |
| 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. Central Asia--a vast and remote area of steppe, semi-desert, and mountains separating Europe from eastern Asia--is home to a diversity of birds. Birds of Central Asia is the first-ever field guide to the avian population of this fascinating part of the world. From ground jays, larks, and raptors to . . . |
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13740 | Drawn from Paradise: The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise | $45.00 |
| Attenborough, David; Fuller, Errol | |||
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CONDITION NOTES: These copies sustained some damage during shipping from the publisher, limited to lightly bumped corners and small scuffs. Originally perceived and idolized by the natives of New Guinea and discovered by Europeans in the sixteenth century, birds of paradise have long enchanted observers with their extraordinary beauty. In Drawn from Paradise, world renowned BBC broadcaster David Attenborough and artist and author Errol Fuller share their passion for these breathtaking creatur . . . |
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13072 | Roberts' VII Multimedia Birds of Southern Africa [DVD-Rom] | $89.50 |
| GIBBON, Guy | |||
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Roberts VII Multimedia Birds of Southern Africa is a comprehensive and interactive multimedia program. It combines multimedia data on over 960 Southern African bird species, with eight interactive modules that facilitate almost every aspect of 'computer birding'. The BIRDS database includes: the comprehensive text of 'Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa - 7th Edition'; the field-guide text and illustrations of the 'Roberts Bird Guide'; Guy Gibbon's collections of bird sounds; 962 individual bi . . . |
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13813 | Ruta Barrancoli: A Bird-finding Guide to the Dominican Republic | $29.95 |
| Latta, Steven C.; Wallace Kate J. | |||
| The first national birding trail in the Caribbean and Latin America. Full descriptions of 44 sites, includes 33 maps, 8 check-lists, and original plates of all 32 endemic species! A guide to 44 premier birdwatching sites. Grouped in five regional birding trails, each site account includes descriptions of habitat, directions for reaching the site and navigating within the site, lists of special target species, and nearby food, accomodations and cultural attractions. Includes 33 maps, 8 checklists . . . | |||
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13636 | The Puffin, Second edition | $80.00 |
| Mike P. Harris, Sarah Wanless | |||
| With its colorful beak and fast, whirring flight, the Atlantic Puffin is the most recognisable and popular of all North Atlantic seabirds. Puffins spend most of the year at sea, but for a few months of the year the come to shore, nesting in burrows on steep cliffs or on inaccessible islands. Awe-inspiring numbers of these birds can sometimes be seen bobbing on the sea or flying in vast wheels over the colony, bringing fish in their beaks back to the chicks. Ho . . . | |||
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13750 | The Harris's Hawk Revolution | $85.00 |
| Coulson, Jennifer; Coulson,Tom | |||
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This falconry book is specifically designed to help falconers become better caretakers, trainers, and hunters, to help breeders increase production, and to make captive bred raptors better falconry birds and hunting hawks. The Coulsons teach about husbandry, rearing, training, socialization, scouting, hunting, selective breeding, and captive propagation techniques. Harris’s Hawks have a reputation for being easy to train, but these highly intelligent, social raptors can be anything but easy. . . . |
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12481-2 | Birding in Seattle and King County: Site Guide and Annotated List; Second Edition | $21.95 |
| Hunn, Eugene S. | |||
| Hunn's classic book, first published by Seattle Audubon in 1982, cast attention on Seattle’s urban environs, rich shorelines, farms and fields, and the little-known wilderness of the flanking Cascade Mountains, inspiring a tsunami of birding by a new generation of skilled and passionate birders. This radically renovated edition documents 377 species, a twenty-three percent increase from the original edition, thanks to intensive exploration along the Cascade crest, dedicated scanning o . . . | |||
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13724 | An Eternity of Eagles: The Human History of the Most Fascinating Bird in the World | $26.95 |
| Bodio, Stephen J. | |||
| From one of the foremost author/naturalists in the country, Stephen J. Bodio, comes a compulsively readable natural and social history of the most beautiful bird in the world - the eagle - with a lengthy introduction by Annie Proulx. The Eagle’s Shadow traces our love-hate relationship to these living dinosaurs, from Neolithic rock art and Native American religion through the practices of Kazakh falconers who use them to hunt wolves, all the way to contemporary art and popular culture. It examin . . . | |||
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13731 | AVES: A Survey of the Literature of Neotropical Ornithology | $60.00 |
| Taylor, Tom | |||
| This book was originally prepared in conjunction with an exhibition of books from the E.A. McIlhenny Natural History Collection displayed at the Hill Memorial Library in 2011, showcasing Four centuries of illustrated books on the birds of Mexico, the Caribbean, and South and Central America. The book is far more than an exhibition catalogue as it contains biographies of many eminent collectors and ornithologists who worked and traveled in the New World tropics. A commentary on the p . . . | |||
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