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61) Birds of Arizona
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Each Falcon Field Guide to birds introduces the 180 most common and sought-after species in a state. Conveniently sized to fit in your pocket and featuring full-color, detailed illustrations, these informative guides make it easy to identify birds in a backyard, favorite parks, and wildlife areas. Each bird is accompanied by a detailed listing of its prominent attributes and a color illustration showing its important features. Birds are organized...
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The Golden Eagle is generally thought to be a well-known and well-documented species. However, much of the available literature is not necessarily in a form that can readily be used in the field. In fact, although much existing information about Golden Eagles has little supporting evidence it is still largely accepted without question. This book addresses this important issue and in doing so the author queries numerous long-held beliefs about Golden...
63) Los inseparables
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Los inseparables son pequeños papagayos africanos, de gran colorido, vivaces y sociables, llaman también la atención porque viven siempre junto a su compañero, siempre unidos, expresan toda su alegría, sus espléndidos colores y mantienen una buena convivencia con las personas.
Desde la clasificación científica a la morfología, de los hábitos alimentarios y sociales a los diversos aspectos de la vida en cautividad, este libro ofrece un gran...
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Birds of the Cottage Country is a virtual storybook account of the author's personalized observations throughout Ontario's cottage playground. It clearly illustrates the downright fun, vast beauty, and consuming involvement of bird watching – even for the most skeptical of laymen. Bill Mansell's daily experiences at birding, spread over a period of sixty-five years, result in such a familiarity with his subject that the reader is drawn as a participant...
65) Mi... Canario
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¿Puedo cogerlo con la mano sin hacerle daño? ¿Qué come? ¿Es verdad que tiene orejas? ¿Cómo modula su canto? Tiene bonitos colores, es alegre y cantarín..Es mi amigo preferido. Es..mi canario.
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This is our fifth book in the series of comprehensive travel guidebooks to birdwatching destinations in Australia.
The Northern Queensland guide describes the most interesting and reasonably accessible birding spots located in the northern half of the vast Queensland State.
Description of each birding site includes, at a minimum, habitat description, site facilities and key avifauna. The authors have cross-checked and supplemented their findings...
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El diamante mandarín, un pequeño pájaro de origen australiano, es objeto de una creciente popularidad en Europa y Estados Unidos. Famoso por su fortaleza y su capacidad de adaptación, sus colores son esplendorosos, tiene un carácter afectuoso y jovial y emite un trino que resuena alegremente desde la mañana a la noche. ¡Un compañero ideal!
En este libro, el autor comparte sus conocimientos veterinarios y su larga experiencia en lo que se refiere...
68) Birds of Texas
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Each Falcon Field Guide to birds introduces the 180 most common and sought-after species in a state. Conveniently sized to fit in your pocket and featuring full-color, detailed illustrations, these informative guides make it easy to identify birds in a backyard, favorite parks, and wildlife areas. Each bird is accompanied by a detailed listing of its prominent attributes and a color illustration showing its important features. Birds are organized...
69) Tasmania
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The second book in the series of comprehensive guidebooks to birdwatching destinations in Australia. The Tasmanian guide provides a detailed record of birdwatching locations within the State. There is no other such a practical, thorough field aid to successful birdwatching available on the market for Tasmania. The authors travelled far and wide to check out in person the potential Tasmanian birding spots. This book is the result of their careful site...
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With Bewick on my knee, I was then happy...' Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte's heroine was not alone in her enjoyment of Thomas Bewick's British Birds-since its first publication in 1797 it has become one of the best-loved classics of natural history. Bewick's masterful woodcuts are more than scientific records; each beady eye and jaunty pose betrays the artist's love of birds.
This edition includes over 180 bird species, from garden favourites such...
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This field guide takes you to the desert and grassland areas of Arizona, California, and New Mexico where the total number of bird species reaches a staggering 440. Included are 21 desert birding hot spots, in-depth descriptions and behavioral information, 8 bird charts, and much more.
73) NSW-ACT
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This is the first of a series of books describing exciting birdwatching locations in Australia. The NSW-ACT Guide is arguably the most comprehensive compendium of birding sites in the State available to date. Not only the standard, well-known locations are covered but also some interesting places known only to a few or newly discovered by ourselves. The book series is intended for both Australian and overseas birders. We hope it will become an essential...
74) Victoria
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This is the third book in the series of comprehensive guidebooks to birdwatching destinations in Australia. Similarly to the other books in the series, the Victorian guide delivers a detailed record of birdwatching locations within the State. The authors toured from the Southern Ocean-swept shores to all corners of the dry interior to assess and select the best, reasonably accessible birding spots. Description of each birding site includes, at a minimum,...
75) The Oriole Book
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Illustrated Natural History information on a popular backyard visitor, covering feeding behaviors, courtship, nest building, raising young, migration, and more. Focus on Baltimore and Bullock's Orioles but with information on every North American species. Includes information on how to make your yard or garden more attractive to orioles.
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Quels sont les oiseaux que je peux observer depuis ma fenêtre? J'habite en ville, puis-je m'adonner à l'ornithologie de chez moi? Quel type de nourriture dois-je leur donner? O dois-je installer ma mangeoire ? Tant de questions qui trouveront toutes leurs réponses dans cet ouvrage complet sur l'observation d'oiseaux depuis sa résidence!
L'ornithologie est un loisir qui gagne de plus en plus d'adeptes chaque année. En faites vous partie? Que...
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Few people have had the privilege of living on an isolated nature reserve of international importance, their every move judged by countless critics. Young ranger Ajay Tegala, embarking on his placement at Blakeney Point aged just nineteen, would have to stand firm in the face of many challenges to protect the wildlife of one of Britain's prime nature sites.
In over 120 years, only a select few rangers have devoted their heart and soul to the wildlife...
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"Winner of a 2014 National Outdoor Book Award in Nature Guidebooks" "Second Place for the 2013 BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year, British Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology" "Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Single Volume Reference/Science, Association of American Publishers" Tom Stephenson's articles and photos have appeared in Birding and Bird Watcher's Digest, at Surfbirds.com, and in the Handbook of the Birds of the World....
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Writer and photographer, Seton Gordon, wrote 27 books over a period of several decades and most of these focused on the landscape and wildlife of the Highlands. Of all these books, one of the most acclaimed was Days with the Golden Eagle. Seton Gordon was among the first to observe in some detail - through countless hours in his hide - the daily life of this magnificent bird and to present in his books an account of their habitat, diet and behaviour....
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