Author: Ruth Hanessian
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 9780609602393
Category : Cage birds
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A selection of poetry from the Dutch Golden Age, situated in the context of seventeenth-century society. (in Dutch)

Author: Timothy Brush
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603446168
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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"Halfway between Dallas and Mexico City, along the last few hundred miles of the Rio Grande, lies a subtropical outpost where people from all over the world come to see birds. Located between the temperate north and the tropic south, with desert to the west and ocean to the east, the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas provides habitat for a variety of birds seen nowhere else in the United States. If you want to see a Hooked-billed Kite, Muscovy Duck, or Altamira Oriole, this is the place." "Drawing on years of personal observation and study, Timothy Brush has written a classic work of natural history about the little-known breeding bird communities of the Valley and the diversity of nesting strategies and behaviors that can be seen. Brush estimates that there are more than 150 current breeding species in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. In Nesting Birds of a Tropical Frontier, he describes the habits, distribution, changes in occurrence, and general outlook of these as well as former breeders, concentrating on Valley specialties and other birds of particular interest in the Valley." "Art by Gerald Sneed and color photographs by several of Texas' top nature photographers show off some of the Valley's famous birds. Historical maps of vegetation and geology help us gain a better perspective on the changes that have taken place along the Rio Grande and on the breeding bird communities of the U.S.-Mexico frontier."--Jacket

Author: Nicholas Dodman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476749035
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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"A celebrated veterinary behaviorist describes the practice of One Medicine, which hinges on the belief that humans and other animals have minds that work the same way, experience similar emotions and share the same neurochemistry, "--NoveList.

Author: Mark Lockwood
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585442843
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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The TOS Handbook of Texas Birds provides authoritative annotations on the abundance, status, and distribution of all species encountered in Texas; lists rare, introduced, and hypothetical species in the appendices; and offers a comprehensive reference section.

Author: Simon Naylor
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822981807
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Victorian England, as is well known, produced an enormous amount of scientific endeavour, but what has previously been overlooked is the important role of geography on these developments. Naylor seeks to rectify this imbalance by presenting a historical geography of regional science. Taking an in-depth look at the county of Cornwall, questions on how science affected provincial Victorian society, how it changed people's relationship with the landscape and how it shaped society are applied to the Cornish case study, allowing a depth and texture of analysis denied to more general scientific overviews of the period.

Author: Mark W. Lockwood
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623491436
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 753

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“. . . includes some stunning images of Mexican and less-well-known Texas species . . . the authors have provided a unique and elegant publication that is truly an important contribution to Texas ornithology.” --Great Plains Research “Everyone interested in Texas birds must have the Handbook of Texas Birds, a marvelous book. It is full of up-to-date information about Texas birds that cannot be found in one place anywhere else. [The annotations] are full of good information that anyone interested in birds will sooner or later refer to when trying to better understand their own yard’s birds or species seen in various other locations throughout the state.”--Victoria Advocate “The useful and attractive guide includes 140 color photos and more than 600 maps detailing where each species can be found in Texas.”--Abilene Reporter-News “. . . an attractive handbook that birders, both serious and casual, will find valuable when visiting this state with its very diverse avifauna. . . Given the increasing popularity of birding as a pastime for young and old, this book should be in the natural history of most public libraries and colleges.”--Choice

Author: Jon Lloyd Dunn
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426218354
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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Presents a guidebook which provides identification tips, information on behavior and nesting, locator and range maps, and plumage and species classification data on over one thousand species of birds found in North America.

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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1058

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Author: Gloria A. Tveten
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585443802
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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For over 25 years the Tvetens wrote a weekly column for the Houston Chronicle called Nature Trails. This is the best of their writings on birds.

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 832

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