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Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
288 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 30 cm
Description
"In this luxuriously illustrated volume, celebrated nature writer Mike Unwin and award-winning photographer David Tipling highlight sixty-seven different species of birds from around the world and explore how each has adapted to its migratory cycle. As they bring to life the drama of the Bar-headed Goose's journey over the Himalayas and the amazing sixty-thousand-mile annual round trip taken by the Arctic Tern between the United Kingdom and Antarctica,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 203 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm.
Description
"Can birds smell?" "Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?" "Do robins 'hear' worms?" In "What It's Like to Be a Bird," David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special, large-format volume is geared as much to nonbirders as it is to the out-and-out obsessed, covering more than two hundred species and including more than 330 new illustrations by the author. While its focus...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 370 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Narrated by David Tennant, this documentary focusing on the flight of birds was filmed over four years and forty countries with help from camera-carrying birds, drones, paragliders and remote-control microflight planes.
25) Birds
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
48 pages : col. ill., col. map ; 22 cm.
Description
"This book covers the habits, physical features, reproduction, and life cycle of birds."--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
224 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 31 x 32 cm
Description
"Birder extraordinaire Tim Laman is a superstar in one of photography's most challenging pursuits: The quest to portray birds in the wild. A naturalist and explorer as well as a brilliant image maker, he has spent thousands of hours over more than 30 years wedged precariously in the tops of trees, often in remote jungles, in the hope that careful planning and good fortune will align to produce the perfect picture. His is a passion shared by all birders,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 117 pages : black and white illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
In their astonishing physiology and behavior, birds are among the most ingenious and resourceful of animals, and a marvel of our natural world. In these 12 lectures, you'll discover the remarkable beneath-the-surface world of birds: their evolution, underlying science, and fascinating lives in the wild, through key subject matter such as: The Miracle of Flight--Learn how a bird's wings operate as an airfoil, producing lift, thrust, and drag, and how...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xvi, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Description
Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead uses birds' eggs as wondrous portals into natural history, enlivened by the stories of naturalists and scientists, including Birkhead and his students, whose discoveries have advanced current scientific knowledge of reproduction.
36) A bird is a bird
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
30 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Describes the unique features that birds have, including beaks, wings, and feathers, and how they are used by different varieties of birds.
Author
Description
"Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have worshipped birds as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves with their feathers, studied their wings to engineer flight, and, more recently, attempted to protect them. In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on a dazzling epic journey through our...
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Join National Geographic photographer Tim Laman and ornithologist Ed Scholes as they journey deep into the most remote jungles on earth in search of all 39 species of some of the most amazing birds in the world--birds of paradise.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
743 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
Description
Examines more than eighty avian families, including an overview of plumage, behavior, distribution, taxonomy, and conservation, and describes all 962 species, covering identification, similar species, voice, status, and distribution.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
[30] p. : col. ill., col. map ; 29 cm.
Description
The story of a nesting pair of murrelets who fly inland from their home in the Pacific Ocean to the Douglas-fir tree area of California where an egg is laid. After the egg is hatched the parents fly back and forth to the ocean bring fish for the young bird to eat. And finally when the fledgling leaves the nest and heads to the ocean.
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