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Cornell University Press, 2003. Paperback. The use of radar was an important tool in understanding bird migration. Early radar echoes of flying birds were referred to as angels. This book provides specific examples of species life history and migratory patterns, the disappearing wildlands it needs, and the behind-the-scenes dramas that.....
Cambridge University Press, 1993. Status: Out of print Paperback. Paperback in near fine condition. Translated by David A. Christie. Illustrations by Astrid Ulfstrand. Previous owner's name on title page. B & W illustrations.
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Cambridge University Press, 1993. Status: Out of print Hardcover. Hardcover with dust jacket in fine condition, blind stamp on title page. The aim of this book is to give a general overview of the whole subject of bird migration. After a chapter describing the Earth's climate and ecosystem, the book.....
European Science Foundation, 2006. Status: Out of print Paperback. 2006. Paperback in very good condition, bumped corners. Proceedings of the Final Conference: Migration in the Life-History of Birds.
New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc, 1978. Status: Out of print First edition. Hardcover. Very good hardcover in dust jacket with protective mylar wrapper. Drawing on a vast and widely scatted literature, this book has three aims: to rationalize the many different interpretations of the term 'migration;' to construct.....
By Author, 2002. Status: Out of print Paperback. Near fine paperback, small tear to head of spine. This thesis examines Great Knots [Calidris tenuirostris], large migratory sandpipers, as they prepare for a migratory flight of over 5,000 km from northern Australia to eastern Asia. Black and white photographs.
Smithsonian Books, 2018. Illustrated By: John T. Anderton. Hardcover. The story of an ornithologist's journey to trace the spring migration of songbirds from the southern border of the United States through the heartland and into Canada. In late March 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo four-month.....
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Status: Out of print First Edition. Hardcover. Orange cloth in good condition, age spotting to the pages. 75 B & W illustrations.
Chapman and Hall, 1995. Status: Out of print Hardcover. 1995. First edition. Hard cover in as new condition. Starting from historical and mythological aspects, the book concentrates on endogenous programs for migration and the underlying genetic and hormonal factors as well as photoperiodic, climatic, social and other influences.
Cornell University Press, 2006. Hardcover. Many raptors, the hawks, eagles, and falcons of the world, migrate over long distances, often in impressively large numbers. Many avoid crossing wide expanses of water and follow flyways to optimize soaring potential. Atmospheric conditions and landscape features, including waterways and mountain ranges, funnel these.....
BirdLife International, 2004. Paperback. The current assessment of biodiversity and what it tells us about current and future conservation efforts. Color photos, maps, illustrations.
Macmillan, 1925. Status: Out of print Flexi-binding. Very good paperback in flexi cloth-covered boards. Cocked. Many b&w illustrations.
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Migration Productions, 2012. DVD. 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.....
American Museum of Natural History, 1959. Status: Out of print Paperback. American Museum Novitates No.1958 (1959), 29 pp.. New in self-wrappers.
Springer, 2012. Status: Special Order Paperback. This monograph summarizes the results of studying passerine migration, mainly that of long-distance nocturnal migrants. Migratory stopovers and migratory flights are shown to be closely interconnected. The main quantitative parameters of stopovers, i.e., their duration, fuel deposition rate and overall energy efficiency, govern the.....
Cambridge University Press, 1929. Status: Out of print 3rd edition. Hardcover. 1929, Third Edition. Hardcover, decorative red cloth in very good condition. Dust jacket has chips and tears. Previous owner's name on front pastedown. Maps.
Yale University Press, 2015. Hardcover. Cramer offers unique insight into how, on an increasingly fragile and congested shore, the lives of red knots, horseshoe crabs, and humans are intertwined. She eloquently portrays the tenacity of small birds and the courage of many people who, bird by bird and beach by.....
Yale University Press, 2016. Paperback. Cramer offers unique insight into how, on an increasingly fragile and congested shore, the lives of red knots, horseshoe crabs, and humans are intertwined. She eloquently portrays the tenacity of small birds and the courage of many people who, bird by bird and beach by.....
Vazquez Mazzini Editores, 2019. Paperback. La autora acompana a una especie de aves playeras en peligro (el Playero Rojizo) durante su extraordinaria migracion desde el extremo sur de Sudamerica hasta las tierras heladas del Artico. Una historia exquisita que emociona profundamente al combinar de manera brillante la historia de vida.....
British Ornithologists' Union, 1992. Paperback. Ibis, Vol. 134, Supplement 1. 132 pp.
Pegasus Books, 2020. Hardcover. A trans-world journey with an extraordinary shorebird - from Australia's southern ocean to the Arctic and back - that explores the mysteries of the natural world and its power to heal. As the sun lowered and turned Gulf St Vincent fiery, they each called a high-pitched.....
Houghton Mifflin, 1962. Status: Out of print Hardcover. Hardcover in very good condition. Dust jacket with chips and tears. First printing. A thorough investigation, superbly illustrated, of the evolution, instincts, social behavior, migration, and anatomy of birds.
Cornell, 1995. Paperback. Near fine paperback, lightly used. Summarizes distribution and breeding habitat requirements of migratory birds in North and South America with range maps for 361 species.
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1964. Status: Out of print Paperback. 1964. Paperback in very good condition. Translated reprint of the pamphlet Migration of Birds published by Panstwowe Zaklady Wydawnictw Szkolnych, Warszawa 1958. Articles on The Phenomenon of Journeys, The Study of Migrations by Bird Banding, Altitude, Speed and Direction of.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1962. Status: Out of print First edition. Hardcover. Near fine hardcover in dust jacket. First American edition of a work originally published in France (1956). B&W maps and charts.