Author: Bruce Berger Publisher: Houghton Mifflin ISBN: 9780382248948 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 48
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Featuring 33 up-close, brilliant color photographs, A Dazzle of Hummingbirds lets readers peek into the daily life of the world's smallest bird. The book uses lively text to engage young audiences, explaining how hummingbirds care for their young, fly, sing, eat, migrate, and guard their territory.
Author: Esther Quesada Tyrrell Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY) ISBN: Category : Birds Languages : en Pages : 232
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Robert Tyrrell, the world's foremost photographer of hummingbirds, has successfully captured on film the utterly fascinating day-to-day activities of our colorful North American species. Included among the 235 full-color pictures are never-before-photographed sequences such as nesting, molting, preening and territorial aggression, as well as an unprecedented portfolio of hummingbirds feeding from wildflowers. Esther Tyrrell has written the accompanying illuminating text, by far the most complete and up-to-date information on hummingbirds ever assembled, which will make this book the definitive source for both scientists and the general reader for years to come. This lavishly illustrated volume opens with an introduction to this lovely family of
Author: Paul Johnsgard Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 160962128X Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 309
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This annotated list of the birds of Nebraska grew gradually out of research associated with my writing of the Birds of the Great Plains: Breeding Species and Their Distribution (Johnsgard, 1979a). It expands and updates an earlier version that was published in 2013 by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries DigitalCommons’ Zea Books (Johnsgard, 2013a). It has been updated and modified in its current revision to conform with the most recent (2017) major revision of the American Ornithologists’ Society’s Checklist of North American Birds (Chesser et al., 2017). It has also been modified in its current revision to conform very closely to the most recent “Official List of the Birds of Nebraska” by the Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union (Gubanyi, 1997, and later supplements in the Nebraska Bird Review, to 84:138–150). The NOU’s official state list of birds (461 species as of 2017) is based on actual specimen evidence or some other convincing basis of each species’ proven occurrence in the state. That list includes 337 “regular” species, 29 “casual” species, 90 “accidental” species, and 5 extinct or extirpated species. In this edition I have classified 368 of the 461 species of Nebraska birds as ranging in relative frequency of occurrence as “abundant” to “rare.” There are also 61 species considered to be of “accidental” occurrence, having been reliably reported in Nebraska no more than five times, 20 that are considered “extremely rare” or “very rare,” if reported from six to 25 times. There are also three extinct, four extirpated, and five unsuccessfully introduced species. Thirteen hypothetical species of dubious origin or identification are mentioned parenthetically. The text includes more than 123,000 words, nearly 200 literature references, and 19 pages of drawings and maps.
Author: Paul A. Johnsgard Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803256973 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 192
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A respected author and scholar, Paul A. Johnsgard has spent a lifetime observing the natural delights of Nebraska’s woodlands, grasslands, and wetlands. Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie collects his musings on Nebraska’s natural history and the issues of conservation facing our future. Johnsgard crafts essays featuring snow geese, owls, hummingbirds, and other creatures against the backdrop of Great Plains landscapes. He describes prairie chickens courting during predawn hours and the calls of sandhill cranes; he evokes the magic of lying upon the prairie, hearing only the sounds of insects and the wind through the grasses. From reflections following a visit to a Pawnee sacred site to meditations on the perils facing the state’s finite natural resources, Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie celebrates the gifts of a half century spent roaming Nebraska’s back roads, trails, and sometimes-forgotten places.
Author: Paul Johnsgard Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1609620704 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 176
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These fourteen essays originally appeared in Prairie Fire, a monthly newspaper that for seven years has carried important messages of social, environmental, and economic issues to residents of Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, and South Dakota, and subscribers in the rest of the world. They discuss the North American east-west ecological boundaries, spring migration events, bird feeders, feathered survivors of a glacial past, the threatened sharp-tailed grouse, the effects of climate change, some "sacred places"-Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, the Ashfall Fossil Beds, Squaw Creek Refuge, the Hutton Niobrara Ranch Sanctuary, and Yellowstone National Park-, our troubles with mountain lions and grizzly bears, and crane season in Wyoming. There is also an expanded informal autobiography, "My Life in Biology" and a current and comprehensive list of all publications of a writer described as "probably the world's most prolific living author of ornithological and natural history literature."
Author: Nancy L. Newfield Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9781881527879 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 148
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f the hummingbird. Little wonder that millions of North Americans attempt to attract these spunky birds to their yards with commerical feeders. Hummingbird Gardens provides how-to information on feeders, plant combinations and garden desig n, showcasing the continent's 20-plus hummingbird species. Full color throughout.
Author: Diane Swanson Publisher: Walrus Books ISBN: 9781552853184 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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About the series: Each book in the Welcome to the World of Series introduces children to wildlife through color photographs, lively description and amazing facts.
Author: Sy Montgomery Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1982176083 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 96
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"From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus, a perfect gem of a book about those most exquisite and extraordinary of winged creatures--hummingbirds."--
Author: Lewis Ellingham Publisher: Ithuriel's Spear ISBN: 0979339057 Category : Languages : en Pages : 136
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Poetry. San Francisco poet and longtime resident Lew Ellingham presents a selection of poems which unites cultural interests with the adventures of an expert bird-watcher. Samuel R. Delany says, "This is astonishing poetry lucid, inventive, at once deeply civilized and wonderfully sensitive to the marvelous."
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