How to Know the Birds

Author: Ted Floyd
Publisher:
ISBN: 1426220030
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
"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.

Extreme Animals

Author: Steve Parker
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1482450100
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

Book Description
Being the biggest fish in the world seems like it would help the whale shark survive. However, its size actually makes it slow and easy to attack. Similarly, giraffes height allows them to grab food other animals cant, but it makes drinking from a pool on the ground very awkward! Readers find out many more cases of extreme animal adaptions and their drawbacks. Fact boxes accompany full-color photographs of each animal, describing the animals most interesting physical features as well as their range, size, and lifespan.

Extreme Birds

Author: Dominic Couzens
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000727923X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
A well-illustrated look at the solutions birds utilize - be it a matter of size, speed or behavior - including their intricate nests, elaborate courtships, deadly attacks and food foraging, this book explores the most extreme ways they've found to do it.

Extreme Birds

Author: Dominic Couzens
Publisher: Firefly Books Limited
ISBN: 9781554074235
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
Presents a collection of miscellaneous facts about the extreme mating rituals, nests, characteristics, and behaviors of birds.

Extreme Measures

Author: Brian K. McNab
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226561224
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Successive chapters take up energy and population dynamics and evolution.

Birds of Paradise

Author: Tim Laman
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426209584
Category : Birds of paradise (Birds)
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
In this dazzling photo essay, Laman and Scholes present gorgeous full-color photographs of all 39 species of the Birds of Paradise that highlight their unique and extraordinary plumage and mating behavior.

Extreme Animals

Author: Nicola Davies
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0763641278
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Davies’s chatty, funny text and Layton’s colorful illustrations will pull kids into this fascinating book about survival. . . . Exciting biology for the classroom." — Booklist (starred review) From the persevering emperor penguins of the South Pole to the brave bacteria inside bubbling volcanoes, from the hardy reptiles of the driest deserts to the squash-proof creatures of the deepest seabeds, animals have adapted to survive in conditions that would kill a human faster than you can say "coffin." Discover how they do it in this amazing natural history book from a celebrated team — and find out who wins the title of the toughest animal of them all. Back matter includes an index and a glossary.

Polar Bears, Penguins, and Other Mysterious Animals of the Extreme Cold

Author: Ana María Rodríguez
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1464604673
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
The Arctic and Antarctica are two of the most extreme environments in the world. They are freezing cold, wind-blown, lip-cracking dry, and pitch-black for half of the year, but despite these extreme conditions, many magnificent animals call these icy worlds home. Scientists have been amazed and curious about how animals survive in such extremely cold places with limited food. To find out, they have been traveling to the icy worlds to study these extreme animals. Their hard work has revealed incredible findings.

Kingbird Highway

Author: Kenn Kaufman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618062351
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387

Book Description
At 16, Kaufman dropped out of high school and started hitching across America in an effort to see the most birds in a year. "Kingbird Highway" is a unique coming-of-age story, combining a lyrical celebration of nature with wild adventures and some unbelievable characters.

Vesper Flights

Author: Helen Macdonald
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802146694
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
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.