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By: N/A
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications: September 1994
Seller ID: 478851
ISBN: 0847818160
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Penguin Press: May 2020
Seller ID: 454988
ISBN: 0735223017
Binding: Hardcover
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By: Audubon
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Publisher: August 2017
Seller ID: 478443
ISBN: 156458027X
Binding: Hardcover
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Price: $7.50
Seller ID: 117974
ISBN: 0865476713
Binding: Hardcover
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By: Bannick, Paul
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Braided River: September 2016
Seller ID: 455750
ISBN: 1594858004
Binding: Hardcover
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By: Barnes, Simon
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Pantheon: May 2005
Seller ID: 462166
ISBN: 0375423559
Binding: Hardcover
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By: Birkhead, Tim
Price: $6.00
Seller ID: 477764
ISBN: 1620401894
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
What is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? How do desert birds detect rain hundreds of kilometers away? How do birds navigate by using an innate magnetic compass? Tracing the history of how our knowledge about birds has grown, particularly through advances in technology over the past fifty years, Bird Sense tells captivating stories about how birds interact with one another and their environment.
Never before has there been a popular book about how intricately bird behavior is shaped by birds' senses. A lifetime spent studyi...
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By: Dunn, Jon L.,Alderfer, Jonathan
Price: $4.00
Publisher: National Geographic: November 2006
Seller ID: 481413
ISBN: 0792253140
Binding: Trade Paperback
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Price: $5.50
Publisher: March 2017
Seller ID: 336166
ISBN: 0801855373
Binding: Trade Paperback
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In Discovering Birds, Paul Lawrence Farber rejects the view that eighteenth-century natural history disappeared with the rise of nineteenth-century biology. In this penetrating case study of the history of ornithology, Farber demonstrates interesting continuities: as natural history evolved into individual sciences (botany, geology, and zoology) and specialties (entomology and ichthyology), the study of birds emerged as a distinct scientific discipline that remained observational and taxonomic. Ornithologists continued to see one of their primary tasks as classification, and they fo...
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Publisher: Crescent/Crown Pub: January 1974
Seller ID: 446215
ISBN: 0517321599
Binding: Hardcover
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By: Golden
Price: $5.00
Publisher: November 2014
Seller ID: 446827
ISBN: 0307336565
Binding: Trade Paperback
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Price: $10.00
Seller ID: 445771
ISBN: 069114849X
Binding: Hardcover
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Birds are the most consistently inventive builders, and their nests set the bar for functional design in nature. Avian Architecture describes how birds design, engineer, and build their nests, deconstructing all types of nests found around the world using architectural blueprints and detailed descriptions of the construction processes and engineering techniques birds use. This spectacularly illustrated book features 300 full-color images and more than 35 case studies that profile key species worldwide. Each chapter covers a different type of nest, from tunnel nests and mound nests to...
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By: Greenberg, Joel
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA: January 2014
Seller ID: 275287
ISBN: 1620405342
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
In the early nineteenth century 25 to 40 percent of North America's birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The down beats of their wings would chill the air beneath and create a thundering roar that would drown out all other sound. Feeding flocks would appear as "a blue wave four or five feet high rolling toward you."
John James Audubon, impressed by their speed and agility, said a lone passenger pigeon streaking through the forest "passes like a thought." How prophetic-for although a billion pigeons crossed the ski...
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By: Hammer, Joshua
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: February 2020
Seller ID: 454233
ISBN: 1501191888
Binding: Hardcover
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By: Hill, Geoffrey
Price: $10.00
Publisher: August 2017
Seller ID: 345856
ISBN: 0195323467
Binding: Hardcover
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By: Hoose, Phillip
Price: $5.00
Publisher: November 2013
Seller ID: 259170
ISBN: 0374361738
Binding: Hardcover
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The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces artists like John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell's Arthur A. "Doc" Allen and his young ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest to save the Ivory-bill culminates in one of the first great conservation showdowns in U.S. ...
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Price: $5.50
Seller ID: 410812
ISBN: 0931686032
Binding: Hardcover
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By: Liguori, Jerry
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Princeton University Press: October 2005
Seller ID: 471053
ISBN: 0691118256
Binding: Trade Paperback
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Identifying hawks in flight is a tricky business. Across North America, tens of thousands of people gather every spring and fall at more than one thousand known hawk migration sites--from New Jersey's Cape May to California's Golden Gate. Yet, as many discover, a standard field guide, with its emphasis on plumage, is often of little help in identifying those raptors soaring, gliding, or flapping far, far away.
Hawks from Every Angle takes hawk identification to new heights. It offers a fresh approach that literally looks at the birds from every angle, compares and contrasts de...
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Publisher: February 2017
Seller ID: 335417
ISBN: 144225193X
Binding: Trade Paperback
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By: Menaboni, Athos
Price: $9.50
Seller ID: 372911
ISBN: 0517662957
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good