Author: Jocelyn Won
Publisher: Plus2 Plus2
ISBN: 0983460906
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Is the Bald Eagle Sleeping? is a great addition to any child's bedtime story collection. Kai doesn't want to go to bed until he knows his favorite animals are sleeping too. One by one, these adorable sleeping animals will soothe your child to sleep.
Author: Lisa J. Amstutz
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1543515266
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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It's morning! Start fluffing feathers and stretching wings up close with a bald eagle! Give young nature explorers and zoologists an exciting way to learn about the giant nests, hunting features, and behaviors of this fascinating bird of prey by following it throughout one day. Plus, kids can continue exploring after the bald eagle goes to sleep! A step-by-step life cycle diagram, critical thinking questions, and further resources will keep fact-hungry kids learning about the magnificent bald eagle. Bring augmented reality to your students by downloading the free Capstone 4D app and scanning for access to an online article, video, and discussion questions.
Author: Steve Potts
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736884839
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Details the characteristics, habitat, and life cycle of the bald eagle. Includes photo diagram.
Author: Jack E. Davis
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631495267
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Best Books of the Month: Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America. The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation’s founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peoples lived beside it peacefully with that when others, whether through hunting bounties or DDT pesticides, twice pushed Haliaeetus leucocephalus to the brink of extinction. Filled with spectacular stories of Founding Fathers, rapacious hunters, heroic bird rescuers, and the lives of bald eagles themselves—monogamous creatures, considered among the animal world’s finest parents—The Bald Eagle is a much-awaited cultural and natural history that demonstrates how this bird’s wondrous journey may provide inspiration today, as we grapple with environmental peril on a larger scale.
Author: Karen Latchana Kenney
Publisher: Great Animal Comebacks
ISBN: 9781641282802
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Author: Jennifer Blomgren
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 1632175320
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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This beautifully illustrated lullaby book features shimmering salmon fry, a long-legged baby moose, feathery eaglets, and fifteen other Northwest animals bedding down for the night (or day!). Rhythmic and soothing four-line stanzas describe the animals' habitatas and sleeping patterns. Children will love learning about the familiar creatures in this special book, destined to become a regional classic. "Where do I sleep? In a den underground, Lined with velvety grass--it's here I'll be found. In a russet red coat with sooty black socks And bright golden eyes, I'm a baby Red Fox."
Author: Sabrina Iacobellis
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1648047998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Mar-A-Bago By: Sabrina Iacobellis This satirical children's book offers "an unapologetic parallel between today's society and a fictional world" In hopes that young readers "will inherit a better world." Teddy True narrates a story about a bully named Westero Krump who is slowly, but surely destroying the island of Mar-a-Bago. Another bully in disguise is an immature fox named Freddy who loves to pull attention from Teddy True and distract readers from the truth with his silly antics. Eventually, the citizens of Mar-a-Bago become Irritated with the unrecognizable state of their beloved Island and begin to fight back. Their wishes for a return to normalcy are granted when a witch named Iris arrives on the Island to free all citizens from Krump.
Author: Mark V. Stalmaster
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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A thorough study of the bald eagle with information on evolution, classification, breeding and nesting, feeding and foraging, reproduction and survival.
Author: Prabin K. Joshi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bald eagle
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) were delisted from threatened or endangered status in 2007 in the conterminous states because of their encouraging comeback throughout most of North America. However the recent court decision on 1 May 2008 forced USFWS to issue a rule to amend the regulations for the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife by designating bald eagles in the Sonoran Desert of central Arizona (also called the ‘southwest population’) as threatened under the authority of Endangered Species Act of 1973. The southwest population is believed to exist in an ecological setting that is unusual and unique among bald eagle populations. Although it is unknown if the southwest population differs markedly from other bald eagle populations in its genetic characteristics, morphological and behavioral differences suggest that genetic differences may exist. Bald eagles are still protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Acts. Bald eagles are habitat generalists and opportunistic feeders (they typically take the easiest and most abundant prey regardless of class or whether live or dead), and roost in a single or group of trees in winter. A roost is an individual or group of trees where ≥1 bald eagle(s) perch overnight. We hypothesized that bald eagles selected night roosts during winter that provided physical safety (e.g., hiding cover), thermal protection, and close proximity to food sources. Our objective was to describe habitat characteristics of night roosts used by migratory bald eagles wintering in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests of northern Arizona. Bald eagles are not usually thought to be a migratory species but some populations migrate while other eagles stay on or near their breeding territories yearround. We considered habitat use at two scales: microhabitat (habitat characteristics within a 30-m diameter area centered at the roost tree measured on ground-based plots) and macrohabitat (habitat characteristics within a 90-m diameter plot centered at the roost tree based on spatial data layers from a geographic information system). Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs and Arizona Game and Fish Department captured and fitted 10 bald eagles (≥3.70 kg, mean and standard error [SE]: 4.75 ± 0.22 kg; 7 adults, 1 subadult, and 2 juveniles) with 70-g, solar-charged satellite Platform Transmitter Terminals at Camp Navajo, Flagstaff, Arizona in 2005 and 2007. We measured microhabitat characteristics of 54 night roosts for 7 bald eagles (6 adults, 1 subadult; mean number of locations per eagle and SE: 8 ± 2) in ponderosa pine forests and ≥500 m apart (for spatial independence). We paired each roost site with a randomlyselected plot ≥500 m away. Random plots had to be in a ponderosa pine stand with at least one tree ≥20 cm diameter at breast height (dbh; large enough for eagles to perch overnight). To measure macrohabitat characteristics, we selected 200 night roosts (mean and SE: 25 ± 11 roosts per eagle; range: 7 to 43) for 8 bald eagles (6 adults, 1 subadult, 1 juvenile) that were located within ponderosa pine forests of northern Arizona. Spatial data layers we used were mapped by the Forest Ecosystem Restoration Analysis (ERA) project with a 90-m resolution raster dataset. We generated 200 random points within ponderosa pine stands ≥500-m apart for comparison points and measured the same characteristics as for night roosts. We developed 13 and 11 a priori models for microhabitat and macrohabitat use, respectively. We used Akaike’s Information Criteria or Akaike’s Information Criteria adjusted for small sample sizes to evaluate models describing night roosts. Models with ∆AICc ≤2 were considered the best approximating models. Microhabitat analyses showed that trees used as night roosts were larger dbh (roost: 75.2 ± 2.2 cm, random: 58.2 ± 1.5), on steeper slopes (roost: 12.4 ± 2.2 percent, random: 6.6 ± 1.1) and surrounded by greater basal area (roost: 19.7 ± 8.0 m2 /ha, random: 17.7 ± 7.8), higher densities of large trees (roost: 61.9 ± 4.8 trees/ha, random: 39.6 ± 4.5) and lower densities of small trees (roost: 137.3 ± 17.4 trees/ha, random: 158 ± 24.0) than comparable characteristics of randomly-selected sites. Mean dbh for trees in the plot was larger (61.9 ± 4.8 cm) than for random plots (39.6 ± 4.5 cm). Roost plots were more likely to face east (67%) than west (33%). The global model best predicted use of a roost by bald eagles (wi = 0.998); other models performed poorly in comparison (∆AICc ≥12.34). Most (94%) of the large trees in roost plots were co-dominant or dominant and had ≥50% live crown ratio (91%). We used a post-hoc analysis to find a more parsimonious model to describe night roost characteristics. The top 3 models (∆AICc ≤3.94) that best predicted use of a roost by eagles included dbh of the largest tree in each plot, density of large trees, density of small trees, slope, eastness (Sin [aspect in degrees] transformed aspect using trigonometric function), tree size variability, and number of trees with live crown ratios ≥75%. At the macrohabitat scale, eagles used roosts that were closer to highways and interstates and farther from lakes than randomly-selected points. Since highways and interstates are believed to provide major sources of food (e.g., road-killed mammals) for bald eagles during winter, eagle roosts appeared to be located in close proximity to food sources. Eagles selected north-facing roosts which may offer protection from southwest winds. Twelve hotspots for bald eagles (used by ≥1 eagle ≥5 times) were identified. Hotspots used by multiple eagles were on generally northeastfacing, on greater slopes and closer to lakes, highways, and interstates. Location and structure of night roosts seemed to provide physical safety, better thermal cover, and sources of food to bald eagles wintering in northern Arizona.
Author: T.C. Weber
Publisher: See Sharp Press
ISBN: 1937276821
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Sleep State Interrupt centers around Waylee Freid, an unemployed journalist and musician with ever-worsening bipolar disorder, and her countercultural friends in the decaying city of Baltimore. Frustrated by the injustice of a system that benefits only a few, and the apathy of a population content to lose themselves in a virtual reality called BetterWorld, the group busts a notorious teenage hacker out of jail and sneaks into a closed election fundraiser at the Smithsonian castle, where they record incriminating admissions by a corrupt president and a power-mad CEO. Hunted by Homeland Security, Waylee and her friends must reach a substantial audience by broadcasting their video during the Super Bowl. But to do so, they will have to break into one of the most secure facilities ever built.
