Author: Neville William CayleyPublisher: Angus & Robertson
ISBN: 9780207941306
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Describes the wild life, birds and bush lore of Australia.
Author: Jeff Davies
Author: Mirra GinsburgWhat Bird is That?
Author: Frank M. ChapmanPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
This book describes birds, both migrant and native, which can be found in all parts of America. They are arranged seasonally and by area. The focus is on birds of the eastern parts of The United States.
The Art of the Bird
Author: Roger J. LedererPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022667505X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The human history of depicting birds dates to as many as 40,000 years ago, when Paleolithic artists took to cave walls to capture winged and other beasts. But the art form has reached its peak in the last four hundred years. In The Art of the Bird, devout birder and ornithologist Roger J. Lederer celebrates this heyday of avian illustration in forty artists’ profiles, beginning with the work of Flemish painter Frans Snyders in the early 1600s and continuing through to contemporary artists like Elizabeth Butterworth, famed for her portraits of macaws. Stretching its wings across time, taxa, geography, and artistic style—from the celebrated realism of American conservation icon John James Audubon, to Elizabeth Gould’s nineteenth-century renderings of museum specimens from the Himalayas, to Swedish artist and ornithologist Lars Jonsson’s ethereal watercolors—this book is feathered with art and artists as diverse and beautiful as their subjects. A soaring exploration of our fascination with the avian form, The Art of the Bird is a testament to the ways in which the intense observation inherent in both art and science reveals the mysteries of the natural world.
How to Look at a Bird
Author: Clare Walker LesliePublisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1635866502
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Bestselling author and acclaimed nature illustrator Clare Walker Leslie invites beginning birdwatchers to hone their observational skills with this easy-to-use visual guide. Using her signature nature journal illustrations, Leslie shows readers the key clues to look for, from the shape of the beak or talons to distinctive feather colorings, flight patterns, and behavioral traits. She offers simple prompts that encourage readers to embrace curiosity and take a closer look: Where are you? What season is it? How is that bird moving or eating? With an emphasis on the birds that are most likely to be seen at a feeder, in a city park, or at a nature preserve, How to Look at a Bird makes bird watching, identification, and appreciation accessible to everyone, no matter where they live.
Author: Banned Birds
Author: Peter AltmannPublisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 3161581636
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"In this study, Peter Altmann addresses the difficult question of why the Hebrew Bible prohibits consumption of certain birds by placing these birds within the overall appearance of birds in the archaeology, texts, and iconography of the Ancient Near East and within the Bible itself." --
The American Bird Conservancy Guide to the 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the
Author: American Bird ConservancyPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307481387
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 647
Book Description
The American Bird Conservancy Guide to the 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the United States offers both bird enthusiasts and conservationists specialized information never before compiled in a single comprehensive volume. This expert resource organizes the United States into 36 ornithologically distinct bird regions, then identifies and describes the 500 sites within these regions. Each site entry includes ornithological highlights, ownership information, a description of habitats and land use, a guide to which species one can expect to find, conservation issues, and visitor information.
The Quintessential Bird
Author: Viola Temple WattsPublisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 0642277311
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Betty Temple Watts (1901-1992) developed an interest in birds in her early married life while living in Iran and Papua New Guinea. Although she had studied art formally as a nineteen year old, it was not until she was 48, and settled in Melbourne, that she decided to immerse herself in her bird art.Betty spent much of her time practising drawing, but was constantly critical of the results. In spite of her harsh selfjudgement, others had a high opinion of her skill and, in 1952, she received her first commission, going on to provide bird illustrations for numerous publications until she was in her late eighties. The Quintessential Bird allows readers a glimpse into Betty's joyous world of birds. This is followed by the plates, reproduced in full along with 60 close-ups of individual birds.
