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Author |
: Al Batt |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 24 |
Release |
: 2013-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1880241285 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781880241288 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Life Gone to the Birds by : Al Batt
Humorist, writer, speaker, and birder, Al Batt writes a knee-slappin?, belly-laughin?, eyes-waterin? fun book. Al is one of the most kind, genuine, and motivating human beings due to his deep love of people and birds. This guy knows how to spin a yarn and twist a word for my reading pleasure. A mash-up of Norman Rockwell and Bill Cosby. One normally doesn?t think about comedic timing in writing, but Al Batt?s got it. There are many funny people in the birding world. Al Batt is the funniest.
Author |
: Chris Chester |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2004-04-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400033850 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400033853 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Providence of a Sparrow by : Chris Chester
“There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.” --William Shakespeare, Hamlet B fell twenty-five feet from his nest into the life of Chris Chester. The encounter was providential for both of them. B and Chester spent hours together playing games like bottle-cap fetch or hide-and-seek. They learned “words” in each other’s vocabularies. B developed a fetish for nostrils and a dislike of the color yellow. He grew anxious if Chester came home late from work. At bedtime he would rub his sleepy eyes on Chester’s thumb and settle to sleep in his palm. Chester ended up turning part of his house into an aviary and adjusting his social life to meet B’s demands. This was a small price to pay, though, for the trust and comfort of a twenty-five-gram friend who brought joy and wonder back into his life.
Author |
: John Terborgh |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1989-12-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0691024286 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780691024288 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Where Have All the Birds Gone? by : John Terborgh
"Things are going wrong with our environment," writes John Terborgh, "even the parts of it that are nominally protected. If we wait until all the answers are in, we may find ourselves in a much worse predicament than if we had taken notice of the problem earlier. By waiting, one risks being too late; on the other hand, there can be no such thing as being too early." Terborgh's warnings are essential reading for all who care about migratory birds and our natural environment. Why are tropical migrant species disappearing from our forests? Can we save the birds that are left? Terborgh takes a more comprehensive view of migratory birds than is usual--by asking how they spend their lives during the half-year they reside in the tropics. By scrutinizing ill-planned urban and suburban development in the United States and the tropical deforestation of Central and South America, he summarizes our knowledge of the subtle combination of circumstances that is devastating our bird populations. This work is pervaded by Terborgh's love for the thrushes, warblers, vireos, cuckoos, flycatchers, and tanagers that inhabited his family's woodland acreage while he was growing upbirds that no longer live there, in spite of the preservation of those same woods as part of a county park. The book is a tour of topics as varied as ecological monitoring, the plight of the Chesapeake wetlands, the survival struggle of Central American subsistence farmers, and the management of commercial forests.
Author |
: Helen Macdonald |
Publisher |
: Grove Press |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2020-08-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802146694 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802146694 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vesper Flights by : Helen Macdonald
The New York Times–bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this “dazzling” essay collection (Wall Street Journal). In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.
Author |
: Olivia Gentile |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2009-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781608191468 |
ISBN-13 |
: 160819146X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Life List by : Olivia Gentile
After her four kids were nearly grown and she was about to turn 50, Phoebe Snetsinger was told she had less than a year to live. Snetsinger, a St. Louis housewife and avid backyard birder, decided to spend that year traveling the world in search of birds. As it turned out, her doctors were wrong, but Phoebe's passion had been ignited and she spent the next eighteen years crisscrossing the globe recklessly staking out her quarry. En route she contracted malaria in Zambia, nearly fell to her death in Zaire, and was kidnapped and gang raped on the outskirts of Port Moresby. Yet none of this curbed her enthusiasm. By the time she died in a bus accident while birding in Madagascar in 1999, Phoebe was world renowned and had seen more species-8,500 of the roughly 10,000-than anyone in history. A fascinating portrait of a hobbiest whose obsession contributed to both her success and her demise, Life List brings Phoebe Snetsinger and the wild world of amatuer ornithology to vivid life.
Author |
: Sue Salvi |
Publisher |
: Little, Brown |
Total Pages |
: 64 |
Release |
: 2018-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780316487757 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0316487759 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Someday a Bird Will Poop on You by : Sue Salvi
A little book with a big message...... when life hits us with a splat Someday a bird will poop on all of us. But that's okay. In a world of bad news, fake news, delays, disappointments, trash talk, and tweets, things are bound to get a little poopy. What matters is not how big the mess is--but how well you react to it. Someday a Bird Will Poop on You is a modern parable about life hitting us with something unexpected--and the perfect gift for anyone leaving home without an umbrella.
Author |
: Ted Floyd |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781426220036 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1426220030 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Know the Birds by : Ted Floyd
"In this elegant narrative, celebrated naturalist Ted Floyd guides you through a year of becoming a better birder. Choosing 200 top avian species to teach key lessons, Floyd introduces a new, holistic approach to bird watching and shows how to use the tools of the 21st century to appreciate the natural world we inhabit together whether city, country or suburbs." -- From book jacket.
Author |
: Larry Sheehan |
Publisher |
: Clarkson Potter |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307716354 |
ISBN-13 |
: 030771635X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Birding Life by : Larry Sheehan
A book with 200 full-color photos and a series of anecdotes shows how bird enthusiasts showcase their love of birds in and around their homes. By the author of Living With Dogs.
Author |
: Simon Jimenez |
Publisher |
: Del Rey |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 2020-01-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780593128992 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0593128990 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Vanished Birds by : Simon Jimenez
A “highly imaginative and utterly exhilarating” (Thrillist) debut that is “the best of what science fiction can be: a thought-provoking, heartrending story about the choices that define our lives” (Kirkus Reviews, Best Debut Fiction and Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year). FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TORDOTCOM AND KIRKUS REVIEWS A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever. I expected many things from this trip. I did not expect a family. A ship captain, unfettered from time. A mute child, burdened with unimaginable power. A millennia-old woman, haunted by lifetimes of mistakes. In this captivating debut of connection across space and time, these outsiders will find in each other the things they lack: a place of love and belonging. A safe haven. A new beginning. But the past hungers for them, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart. Praise for The Vanished Birds “This is the most impressive debut of 2020.”—Locus “This extraordinary science fiction epic, which delves deep into the perils of failing to learn from one’s mistakes, is perfect for fans of big ideas and intimate reflections.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A lyrical and moving narrative of space travel, found families, and lost loves set against an evocative space-opera background.”—Booklist (starred review) “The Vanished Birds finds an intimate heartbeat of longing in a saga of galactic progress and its crushing fallout. . . . A novel of vast scope that yet makes time for compassion, wonder, and poetry.”—Indra Das, author of The Devourers
Author |
: Kyo Maclear |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2017-01-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501154201 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501154206 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Birds Art Life by : Kyo Maclear
"A writer's search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this ... meditation on creativity and life"--