Author: California Condor Recovery Team
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California condor
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
California Condor Recovery Plan
Author: California Condor Recovery Team
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California condor
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California condor
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The California Condor
Author: Carl B. Koford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
California Condor Recovery Plan
Author: California Condor Recovery Team
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California condor
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California condor
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Revised California Condor Recovery Plan
Author: California Condor Recovery Team
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California condor
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California condor
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
California Condor Recovery Plan
Author: California Condor Recovery Team
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California condor
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California condor
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
California Condor (Gymnogyps Californianus)
Author: Lloyd F. Kiff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Revised California Condor Recovery Plan
Author: California Condor Recovery Team
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California condor
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California condor
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
BirdNote
Author: BirdNote
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 1632171708
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
One hundred entertaining and informative essays from the popular public radio feature program, BirdNote, accompanied by original illustrations throughout--an illuminating volume for bird and nature lovers across North America. Here are the best stories about our avian friends from the public radio show BirdNote, each brief essay illuminating the life, habits, or songs of a particular bird. Why do geese fly in a V-formation? Why are worms so good for you--if you're a robin? Which bird calls, "Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all?" From wrens that nest in cactuses to gulls that have a strange red dot on their bills--these digestible and fascinating bird stories are a delightful window to the winged world. A foreword by John W. Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and an introduction by Gordon Orians, professor emeritus of biology at the University of Washington, are also included. Contains web links to the audio version of each story, with bird sounds.
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 1632171708
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
One hundred entertaining and informative essays from the popular public radio feature program, BirdNote, accompanied by original illustrations throughout--an illuminating volume for bird and nature lovers across North America. Here are the best stories about our avian friends from the public radio show BirdNote, each brief essay illuminating the life, habits, or songs of a particular bird. Why do geese fly in a V-formation? Why are worms so good for you--if you're a robin? Which bird calls, "Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all?" From wrens that nest in cactuses to gulls that have a strange red dot on their bills--these digestible and fascinating bird stories are a delightful window to the winged world. A foreword by John W. Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and an introduction by Gordon Orians, professor emeritus of biology at the University of Washington, are also included. Contains web links to the audio version of each story, with bird sounds.
Condor
Author: John Nielsen
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061740640
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The California condor has been described as a bird "with one wing in the grave." Flying on wings nearly ten feet wide from tip to tip, these birds thrived on the carcasses of animals like woolly mammoths. Then, as humans began dramatically reshaping North America, the continent's largest flying land bird started disappearing. By the beginning of the twentieth century, extinction seemed inevitable. But small groups of passionate individuals refused to allow the condor to fade away, even as they fought over how and why the bird was to be saved. Scientists, farmers, developers, bird lovers, and government bureaucrats argued bitterly and often, in the process injuring one another and the species they were trying to save. In the late 1980s, the federal government made a wrenching decision -- the last remaining wild condors would be caught and taken to a pair of zoos, where they would be encouraged to breed with other captive condors. Livid critics called the plan a recipe for extinction. After the zoo-based populations soared, the condors were released in the mountains of south-central California, and then into the Grand Canyon, Big Sur, and Baja California. Today the giant birds are nowhere near extinct. The giant bird with "one wing in the grave" appears to be recovering, even as the wildlands it needs keep disappearing. But the story of this bird is more than the story of a vulture with a giant wingspan -- it is also the story of a wild and giant state that has become crowded and small, and of the behind-the-scenes dramas that have shaped the environmental movement. As told by John Nielsen, an environmental journalist and a native Californian, this is a fascinating tale of survival.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061740640
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The California condor has been described as a bird "with one wing in the grave." Flying on wings nearly ten feet wide from tip to tip, these birds thrived on the carcasses of animals like woolly mammoths. Then, as humans began dramatically reshaping North America, the continent's largest flying land bird started disappearing. By the beginning of the twentieth century, extinction seemed inevitable. But small groups of passionate individuals refused to allow the condor to fade away, even as they fought over how and why the bird was to be saved. Scientists, farmers, developers, bird lovers, and government bureaucrats argued bitterly and often, in the process injuring one another and the species they were trying to save. In the late 1980s, the federal government made a wrenching decision -- the last remaining wild condors would be caught and taken to a pair of zoos, where they would be encouraged to breed with other captive condors. Livid critics called the plan a recipe for extinction. After the zoo-based populations soared, the condors were released in the mountains of south-central California, and then into the Grand Canyon, Big Sur, and Baja California. Today the giant birds are nowhere near extinct. The giant bird with "one wing in the grave" appears to be recovering, even as the wildlands it needs keep disappearing. But the story of this bird is more than the story of a vulture with a giant wingspan -- it is also the story of a wild and giant state that has become crowded and small, and of the behind-the-scenes dramas that have shaped the environmental movement. As told by John Nielsen, an environmental journalist and a native Californian, this is a fascinating tale of survival.
California Condors in the Pacific Northwest
Author: Jesse D'Elia
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870717000
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"The authors study the evolution and life history of the California Condor, its historical distribution, the reasons for its decline, and their hopes for its reintroduction in the Pacific Northwest"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870717000
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"The authors study the evolution and life history of the California Condor, its historical distribution, the reasons for its decline, and their hopes for its reintroduction in the Pacific Northwest"--