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Avian Molecular Evolution and Systematics
The use of DNA and other biological macromolecules has revolutionized systematic studies of evolutionary history. Methods that use sequences of nucleotides and amino acids are now routinely used as data for addressing evolutionary questions that, although ...more |
David P. Mindell |
10 May 2013 |
$180.00 |

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1001 Secrets Every Birder Should Know: Tips and Trivia for the Backyard and Beyond
A delightful and irreverent guide for bird watching, this guide is chock-full of color photographs, tips, and fun facts. ...more |
Sharon Stiteler |
6 May 2013 |
$20.00 |

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Birdwatching in New Hampshire
A guide to birding in the Granite State ...more |
Eric A. Masterson |
4 May 2013 |
$21.99 |
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A Field Guide to Birds of the Big Bend
This current revision, reflecting the extensive amount of birding activites that occurs year-round at Big Bend National Park. ...more |
Roland Wauer |
2 May 2013 |
$17.99 |
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Falcon Pocket Guide: Birds of Alaska
Birds of Alaska is a field guide to the most common and sought-after species in the state. Conveniently sized to fit in your pocket and featuring full-color, detailed illustrations, this informative guide makes it easy to identify birds in your backyard, ...more |
Todd Telander |
2 May 2013 |
$7.99 |

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Raptors in Human Landscapes: Adaptation to Built and Cultivated Environments
This book is a collection of papers highlighting ways in which Raptors have successfully adapted to man-made landscapes and structures. The coverage of Raptors in Human Landscapes is broad, ranging from the impact of human activity on country-wide scales ...more |
David M. Bird |
2 May 2013 |
$93.95 |
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Wetland Birds
Wetland birds provide us with some of nature's most wonderful sights, from vast flocks wheeling overhead to newly-hatched chicks drying in the sun. Apart from their beauty, recreational and economic importance, they are excellent indicators of water quality ...more |
Milton W. Weller |
27 Apr 2013 |
$52.00 |

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The Loghouse Nest
A charming account of the author's relationship with the birds and creatures who shared her homesite at Pimisi Bay, near Mattawa, Ontario. ...more |
Louise de Kiriline Lawrence |
15 Apr 2013 |
$9.95 |

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The Lovely and the Wild
From childhood Louise de Kiriline Lawrence dreamed of settling one day in a tranquil spot and living in harmony with nature. ...more |
Louise de Kiriline Lawrence |
14 Apr 2013 |
$9.95 |

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Mar: A Glimpse Into the Natural Life of a Bird
"Writing with uncanny skill, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence leads us gently into the world of birds. Her perception, intuition and experience give her insights that she here freely shares with us all. "I knew this remarkable lady for years, and had previously ...more |
Louise de Kiriline Lawrence |
13 Apr 2013 |
$6.99 |
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Birds of Ontario (Vol. 1)
Birds of Ontario contains an identification and description of all species, with 344 outstanding colour plates. ...more |
J. Murray Speirs |
12 Apr 2013 |
$32.95 |

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A Photographic Guide to the Birds of the Cayman Islands
With a rich avifauna of more than 300 species, the three islands that make up the Cayman Islands - Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac - form an increasingly popular birding destination. Although the islands' sole endemic species, Cayman Islands ...more |
Patricia E. Bradley |
12 Apr 2013 |
$26.99 |

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Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover
A veteran traveller with an aptitude for languages, Margaret Nice, researcher-scientist-author, amassed considerable knowledge of many of the birds of the world. Significantly, her most important paper was published in Germany, far from her birthplace ...more |
Margaret Morse Nice |
9 Apr 2013 |
$9.99 |
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Birding Hot Spots of Central New Mexico
From pine forest to desert scrub, from alpine meadow to riparian wetland, Albuquerque and its surrounding area in New Mexico offer an appealing variety of wildlife habitat. Birders are likely to see more than two hundred species during a typical year ...more |
Judith Liddell & Barbara Hussey |
5 Mar 2013 |
$24.95 |
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Texas Waterfowl
In this beautifully illustrated guide, two practicing wildlife biologists describe the life histories of forty-five species of ducks, geese, and swans that occur in Texas. For common species and those that breed in the state, each account begins with ...more |
William P. Johnson & Mark W. Lockwood |
2 Mar 2013 |
$25.00 |
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Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds
Naturalist Lyanda Lynn Haupt, an ornithology teacher and researcher, examines the amazing talents and personalities of the most common of birds. She muses on the tarnished reputation of the starling, the sexed-up antics of male woodpeckers, and the mysterious ...more |
Lyanda Lynn Haupt |
10 Feb 2013 |
$12.95 |

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The Goshawk
What is it that binds human beings to other animals? T. H. White, the author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham's Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. A particular sentence—"the ...more |
T. H. White |
9 Feb 2013 |
$16.95 |

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Finding Your Wings: A Workbook for Beginning Bird Watchers
A Workbook for Beginning Bird Watchers No other book for beginning bird watchers involves the reader so actively in the exciting first steps of learning to watch birds. This workbook is filled with quizzes and exercises that prepare the reader for going ...more |
Burton S. Guttman |
31 Dec 2012 |
$14.95 |

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Flights Against the Sunset: Stories that Reunited a Mother and Son
At age sixteen, Kenn Kaufman left home to travel the world in search of birds. Now a grown man and a renowned ornithologist, he has come back to visit his ailing mother and explain to her what drove his obsession with bird life. His explanation forms a ...more |
Kenn Kaufman |
30 Dec 2012 |
$14.95 |

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Falcon Fever: A Falconer in the Twenty-first Century
What is so compelling about falconry? Tim Gallagher mines his lifelong obsession with falcons for an answer in this engaging volume interweaving memoir, history, and travelogue. An entire subculture exists outside the mainstream of American society consisting ...more |
Tim Gallagher |
28 Dec 2012 |
$14.95 |

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The Reluctant Twitcher: A Quite Truthful Account of My Big Birding Year
In 2007, Richard Pope, a lifelong birder, embarked on his "Big Year," the object being to record at least 300 birds in Ontario within that calendar period. Not just another book on birding, Popes unique approach is supported by an array of exceptional ...more |
Richard Pope |
17 Dec 2012 |
$11.99 |

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Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding
From the moment Europeans arrived in North America, they were awestruck by a continent awash with birds—great flocks of wild pigeons, prairies teeming with grouse, woodlands alive with brilliantly colored songbirds. Of a Feather traces the colorful ...more |
Scott Weidensaul |
19 Nov 2012 |
$15.00 |

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Rare Birds
The inspiring story of David Wingate, a living legend among birders, who brought the Bermuda petrel back from presumed extinction David Wingate is known in Bermuda as the birdman and in the international conservation community as a living legend for ...more |
Elizabeth Gehrman |
19 Sep 2012 |
$26.95 |

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Private Lives of Garden Birds
Brimming with stories, wisdom, and expert knowledge, this delightful book gives enthusiasts a peek into the private worlds of eleven North American birds: swallows, blue jays, chickadees, song sparrows, house sparrows, phoebes, mockingbirds, crows, red-winged ...more |
Calvin Simonds |
9 Sep 2012 |
$18.95 |

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Life on the Wing: A Bird Chronicle from the pages of The Times
From dainty avocets prancing along the seashore to panic-stricken waxwings frenziedly gobbling berries, from barking barnacle geese to soaring skylarks, Derwent May writes about birds in a very special way. As he goes in search of birdlife in a variety ...more |
Derwent May |
29 Aug 2012 |
$20.40 |

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Falconer on the Edge: A Man, His Birds, and the Vanishing Landscape of the American West
Rachel Dickinson profiles falconer Steve Chindgren, a man willing to make extreme sacrifices to continue practicing the sport that has ruled his life. Dickinson arrives at a sense of falconry's allure: the unpredictable nature of the hunt and the soaring ...more |
Rachel Dickinson |
20 Aug 2012 |
$24.00 |

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The Wild Duck Chase: Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest
The Wild Duck Chase takes readers into the peculiar world of competitive duck painting as it played out during the 2010 Federal Duck Stamp Contest-the only juried art competition run by the U.S. government. Since 1934, the duck stamp, which is bought ...more |
Martin J. Smith |
3 Aug 2012 |
$19.99 |

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Birds in Town and Village
An in-depth discussion on many different species of British birds by famed ornithologist William Hudson. ...more |
William Hudson |
3 Aug 2012 |
$2.99 |

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Art of Bird Finding, The: Before You ID Them, You Have to See Them
Filling a gap in the vast literature on birding, Pete Dunne explains how to find birds--the often-ignored first step in identifying, observing, and listing bird species. He explains the best strategies for locating birds in any season and in every kind ...more |
Peter Dunne |
17 Jul 2012 |
$14.95 |

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An Enchantment of Birds: Memories from a Birder's Life
In these delightful meditations, biologist and bird lover Richard Cannings weaves stories of his personal encounters with birds into fascinating descriptions of their behavior, anatomy, and evolution. He muses over the meadowlarks' ability to hide their ...more |
Richard Cannings |
6 Jul 2012 |
$19.95 |

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Creative Bird Photography: Essential Tips and Techniques
This beautifully illustrated, inspirational guide to bird photography is packed with practical advice for how to photograph birds presented in an informative but accessible writing style. Creative Bird Photography offers a fresh approach to its subject, ...more |
Bill Coster |
2 Jul 2012 |
$14.95 |

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Birds in Flight
They soar and they glide, they flap and they flutter, they swoop and they plummet. Solo or en masse, in formation or pas de deux, birds in flight are in their element, their airborne behavior as varied and distinctive as their plumage. In this book, wildlife ...more |
Carrol L. Henderson |
19 Jun 2012 |
$24.99 |
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Birds of Essex
The County Avifaunas are a growing series giving full details of the status and range of every species recorded in the county in question. Each title covers all species on the county list, with a detailed breakdown of rarity records, and each has introductory ...more |
Simon Wood |
29 May 2012 |
$51.99 |

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Owls of the World
Owls are enduringly popular birds, but due to their nocturnal habitsmost species are difficult to see well. The plumages of many speciesare cryptic and difficult to separate by plumage alone. This problem iscompounded by the different morphs that many ...more |
Claus König & Friedhelm Weick |
29 May 2012 |
$64.99 |

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The Birds of Gwent
The County Avifauna series provides detailed information on the range and status of bird species at county level. Areas covered so far include Norfolk, Suffolk, Dorset, the Shetland Islands and the Isles of Scilly, with The Birds of Essex in press. Each ...more |
Gwent Ornithological society |
29 May 2012 |
$51.99 |

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The Birds of Leicestershire and Rutland
The County Avifaunasare a growing series of books, each of which gives detailsof the status and range of every species on the county list, with a detailed breakdown of rarityrecords. Each has introductory sections describing the county's ecology and habitats, ...more |
Rob Fray & Roger Davies |
29 May 2012 |
$58.50 |

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The Birds of the Thai-Malay Peninsula Vol. 2
This well-illustrated volume covers the passerines of Singapore, peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand and the tip of Tenasserim (Burma) with their associated island archipelagos. David Wells historically complete accounts draw on a full range of recent ...more |
David R. Wells |
29 May 2012 |
$84.50 |

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The Birds of Turkey
Turkey is a popular destination forbirders and tourists, and although there has been much published on itsbirds over the past 40 years, there has never been a comprehensive avifauna. The Birds of Turkeyredresses this. It contains a detailed account of ...more |
Guy Kirwan & Barbaros Demirci |
29 May 2012 |
$64.99 |

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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Birds . . . But Were Afraid To Ask
This RSPB-endorsed book answers all those burning questions aboutbirds that beginners and experts alike may ask themselves as they goabout their birding. How do ducks keep their feet from freezing inwinter? Why don't swallows stay in Africa? Are birds ...more |
Stephen Moss |
29 May 2012 |
$12.99 |

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How to Raise Poultry
Prized for their feathers or eggs, raised for their meat or their beauty or simply for fun, poultry of a dazzling array of sorts and sizes have a place in the heart of farmers, ranchers, and bird fanciers alike. If you want to raise fowl—of whatever ...more |
Christine Heinrichs |
21 May 2012 |
$18.99 |
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Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West
Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West is the first fully illustrated field guide to all 348 species of dragonflies and damselflies in western North America. Dragonflies and damselflies are large, stunningly beautiful insects, as readily observable ...more |
Dennis Paulson |
19 May 2012 |
$29.95 |
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The Migration of Birds: Seasons on the Wing
Why do birds migrate -- and just how do they do it? The Migration of Birds is a comprehensive illustrated presentation of the mysteries of bird migration. Ornithologist Janice M. Hughes describes the findings of the most recent research and surveys ...more |
Janice Hughes |
15 May 2012 |
$7.99 |
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Life List
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. ...more |
Olivia Gentile |
8 May 2012 |
$11.99 |

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Crows and Jays
In no other group of perching birds has evolution produced such a degree of variation as in the 120 species of crows and jays that inhabit the world today. They range from the tiny Hume's Ground-jay of the steppe-highlands of Tibet to the huge Thick-billed ...more |
Steve Madge |
14 Apr 2012 |
$64.99 |

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A Guide to the Identification and Natural History of the Sparrows of the United States and Canada
While good general guides to North American birds are widely available, these days careful and avid birders require the most specialised information on bird identification, especially for the more complex species groups. A Guide to the Identification and ...more |
James D. Rising |
14 Apr 2012 |
$64.99 |

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Tits, Nuthatches and Treecreepers
The chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, and treecreepers include some of the best-known birds in the world. They also number among them some species so rare that they have been seen by only a handful of birdwatchers. This is the first guide to cover all of ...more |
Simon Harrap |
14 Apr 2012 |
$64.99 |

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The Peregrine Falcon
The Peregrine's Journey vividly describes one of the most remarkable feats in the animal kingdom. Beginning in Alaska and ending two months later in Argentina, the peregrine falcon's annual migration is an 8,000-mile flight across the Americas. This beautifully ...more |
Derek Ratcliffe |
13 Apr 2012 |
$65.00 |

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The War for Afghanistan: A Very Brief History
When it invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the United States sought to do something previous foreign powers had never attempted: to create an Afghani state where none existed. More than a decade on, the new regime in Kabul remains plagued by illegitimacy and ...more |
Thomas Barfield |
11 Apr 2012 |
$3.99 |
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Birds and Berries
The book's subtitle - A study of an ecological interaction - properly reflects the author's theme but may tend to hide the fact that the relationships between birds and berries can be much more than the simple, mutually advantageous systems ('eat my fruits, ...more |
Barbara Snow & David Snow |
10 Apr 2012 |
$64.99 |

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Birds and Berries
The book's subtitle - A study of an ecological interaction - properly reflects the author's theme but may tend to hide the fact that the relationships between birds and berries can be much more than the simple, mutually advantageous systems ('eat my fruits, ...more |
Barbara Snow & David Snow |
9 Apr 2012 |
$64.99 |

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