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Flyaway: How a Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings
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Suzie Gilbert, Laura Westlake (Illustrator)
"Flyaway" tells the remarkable winning story of a housewife from a Hudson River town who takes in injured wild birds to rehabilitate them, in the midst of her chaotic country household that is already filled with kids, pets, and a husband.
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Return of the Eagle: How America Saved Its National Symbol
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Greg Breining, Frank Oberle (Photographer)
Spectacular color photos capture the majesty of bald eagles in this inspiring story of how the United States saved its living symbol of independence.
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Hawks Aloft: The Story of Hawk Mountain
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Maurice Broun
Conservation classic Hawks Aloft chronicles the founding of Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, the world's first refuge for birds of prey. This personal account by the Sanctuary, the world's first refuge for birds of prey. This personal account by the sanctuary's first curator, shares the difficulties and discoveries he and his wife encountered during their ...
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A Book Lovers Holidays in the Open
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Theodore Roosevelt, IV
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE HOPI SNAKE-DANCE ON our trip we not only traversed the domains of two totally different and very interesting and advanced Indian tribes, but we also ...
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Bluebirds and Their Survival
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Wayne H Davis, Philippe Roca
In this detailed and lavishly illustrated how-to book, bluebird expert Wayne H. Davis tells how to attract and care for this beautiful and gentle bird and offers solutions to the most common bluebird problems. Davis shares plans for nesting and feeding structures, including his specially designed Kentucky Bluebird Box. 48 color photos. 16 figures.
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Eagle's Plume: The Struggle to Preserve the Life and Haunts of America's Bald Eagle
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Bruce E Beans
The story of the extraordinary national effort to bring back America's bald eagle from the brink of extinction; also includes a portrait of the life and mythology of the eagle, with information on its nesting, breeding, feeding and migratory habits; its role as an American icon; its place in the ecosystem; and continuing threats to its survival.
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Endangered Birds of the World, the ICBP Bird Red Data Book
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Warren B King, Jack Aves Vincent (Photographer)
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Bird Ambulance
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Arline Thomas
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Cowbirds and Other Brood Parasites
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Catherine P Ortega
The Brown-headed Cowbird is known to use the nests of more than 200 other bird species, and cowbirds in general are believed to play a role in the decline of some migratory songbird populations. These brood parasites - birds that lay their eggs in the nests of others - have long flourished in North America. Because brood parasitism has evolved ...
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Birds in Europe PB
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G M Tucker
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Return of the Whooping Crane
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Robin Doughty
This study is the first since the 1960s to draw together all current knowledge about whooping crane biology and conservation. Doughty provides full information on the wild flock the migrates between Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada and Aransas National Wildlife Refuge on the Texas Gulf coast.
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No Woman Tenderfoot: Florence Merriam Bailey, Pioneer Naturalist
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Harriet Kofalk
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The hunt for the whooping cranes; a natural history detective story
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J. J. McCoy
Driven from their natural habitat by the settlement and urbanization of North America, ravaged by hunters, the proud, solitary and beautiful whooping cranes have long been on the verge of extinction. By the mid 1940's, only 27 wild whooping cranes were observed on the birds' winter grounds in the Aransas Wildlife Refuge along the coast of Texas. ...
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So Cranes May Dance: A Rescue from the Brink of Extinction
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Barbara Katz, Tory Peterson (Foreword by)
The true story of the grassroots effort to save the world's endangered wild cranes. In a world of discouraging environmental statistics, powerful enemies of conservation, geographic and political obstacles, and a lack of understanding about animals and their needs, this is a vital success story. A portion of the proceeds to be donated to the ...
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Ducks in the Wild: Conserving Waterfowl and Their Habitats
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Paul A Johnsgard
The more than 130 duck species in the world are profiled in this illustrated volume, which features a complete description of each duck's appearance, breeding habits, current population, and more. 130 color photographs. Line drawings. Range maps. Glossary.
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The Birder's Catalogue: The Sourcebook for Birding Paraphernalia
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Shelia Buff, Sheila Buff
First-time birders and veterans alike will be able to see, hear, and record birds as varied as warblers and waterfowl, along with the rarest and most unusual species. 312 photos, 187 in full color.
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The ICBP/IUCN red data book.
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N. J. Collar, International Council for Bird Preservation, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
The Smithsonian Institution Press distributes in the Americas selected books published by BirdLife Inter-national (formerly ICBP), including the BirdLife Conservation Series.
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Ecology and Conservation of Neotropical Migrant Landbirds
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Hagan, Johnston, Manomet Bird Observatory
For more than a decade ornithologists have suspected that migrant landbird populations in the United States and Canada are declining. Fragmented forests in the northern breeding grounds and the loss of habitats in tropical wintering zones have been suggested as two major factors in the population declines. This is the first technical volume to ...
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Neighbors to the Birds: A History of Birdwatching in America
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Felton Gibbons, Deborah Strom
The recreational pursuit of birdwatching attracts millions of Americans. Gibbons and Strom provide a colorful history of this pastime, including how the study of birds developed, the influences of John James Audubon, John Muir and others, and the growth of conservation movements. Photos.
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Farming and Birds
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Raymond J O'Connor, Michael Shrubb
This attractively illustrated book reviews the effects of agricultural development on bird populations in Britain. Examining modern farmland as a bird habitat, it explains the changes, both in habitat structure and in available resources, that have occurred as a result of mechanisation and use of agrochemicals. Farmland bird communities are ...
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Fogswamp
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Trudy Turner, Ruth McVeigh
Ralph and Ethel Edwards carved a pioneer life out of the wilderness, and raised three children in the splendid isolation of British Columbia's Coast Chilcotin country. When their daughter Trudy, married, she helped her husband, Jack Turner, to build a farm close to the original Edwards homesite. Here they lived without any modern conveniences, ...
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Restoring North Americas Birds: Lessons from Landscape Ecology
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Professor Robert A Askins, Julie Zickefoose (Illustrator)
This volume brings together research on bird species and habitats to show how basic ecological principles apply in seemingly different situations. It introduces bird ecology and concepts of landscape ecology, focusing on such intriguing species as Bachman's Warbler and Red Crossbill.
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Endangered Parrots
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This text discusses the controversial status of species taken for aviculture from the wild. It counters the opinion that the hobby is responsible for reducing wild stock, but also emphasizes the importance of conserving the world's wild stocks and encouraging responsible captive breeding.
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Cranes: Their Biology, Husbandry & Conservation
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David H Ellis
Topics covered include: Crane Biology; General Husbandry; Egg and Semen Production; Incubation and Hatching; Veterinary Techniques for Rearing Crane Chicks; Behaviour Management; Imprinting, Attachment, and Behavioural Development in Cranes; Reproductive Physiology; Medicine and Surgery; Genetic Management; Records; Special Techniques; Artificial ...
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The Bald Eagle Returns
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Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, William Munoz (Photographer)
Describes how bald eagles have recovered from the threat of extinction, how they raise their families, and why they are the national bird of the United States.
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