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Birds An Anthology

Mitchell Jaqueline, Fitch Daglish Eric

ISBN: HB: 9781851245291, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2020
272 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Thomas Hardy notes the thrush's "full-hearted evensong of joy illimited", Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the air but swifts "dash round in circles" and Rachel Carson watches sanderlings at the ocean's edge, scurrying "across the be...

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Ecology

In Search of Meadowlarks Birds, Farms, and Food in Harmony with the Land

Marzluff John M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300237146, Yale University Press, April 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 60 black&white illus.

With predictions of a human population of more than nine billion by the middle of this century and eleven billion by 2100, we stand at a crossroads in our agricultural evolution. In this clear and engaging yet scientifically rigorous book, wildlife b...

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Spare the Birds! George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society

Merchant Carolyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300215458, Yale University Press, August 2016
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.

An engaging history of the founding of one of the world's most popular environmental organizations, the Audubon Society In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine. T...

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Welcome to Subirdia Sharing Our Neighborhoods With Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife

Marzluff John M., DeLap Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780300216875, ISBN: HB: 9780300197075, Yale University Press, December 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 41 black&white illus.

"Welcome to Subirdia" presents a surprising discovery: the suburbs of many large cities support incredible biological diversity. Populations and communities of a great variety of birds, as well as other creatures, are adapting to the conditions of ou...

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Art of Migration Birds, Insects, and the Changing Seasons in Chicagoland

Macnamara Peggy

ISBN: HB: 9780226046297, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
128 pp., 15.2x20.3 cm, 54 colour illus.

Tiny ruby-throated hummingbirds weighing less than a nickel fly from the upper Midwest to Costa Rica every fall, crossing the six-hundred-mile Gulf of Mexico without a single stop. One of the many creatures that commute on the Mississippi Flyway as p...

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Mammals

Extreme Measures The Ecological Energetics of Birds and Mammals

McNab Brian K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226561233, ISBN: HB: 9780226561226, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 7 halftones, 97 line illus.

Along with reproduction, balancing energy expenditure with the limits of resource acquisition is essential for both a species and a population to survive. But energy is a limited resource, as we know well, so birds and mammals – the most energy-inten...

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Flight of the Golden Plover The Amazing Migration Between Hawaii and Alaska

Miller Debbie S.

ISBN: PB: 9781602231511, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
32 pp., 20.5x25.5 cm, colour illus.

The remarkable story of the golden plover's annual migration, this beautifully illustrated nature title for young readers sees the small but mighty plover embark on a six-thousand-mile flight between the frozen Alaska tundra and gentle grassy slopes...

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