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Identification Guide to North American Birds: Columbidae to Ploceidae
On t.p.: "A compendium of information on identifying, ageing, and sexing waterbirds, diurnal raptors, and gallinaceous birds in the hand."
Pete Pyle
Includes a biographical sketch on Pete Pyle up to approximately 1944, written by Jack Jackson.
Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World
With more than 5,000 works cited, Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World is the greatest compendium of information ever published on hybridization in birds. Worldwide in scope, it provides information on all reported avian crosses, not only those occurring in captivity, but also in a natural setting (approximately 4,000 crosses are covered). This book is a basic reference, intended both for the serious birder and the professional biologist. McCarthy's work fills a need for reference material that takes into account the last half century of data. It will be of interest to workers in a wide variety of fields, ranging from animal behavior to genetics, ecology, zoology, and systematics. In fact, it will make fascinating reading for anyone interested in birds and the natural world.
The Devil's Teeth
A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators--and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, their dark fins swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. These sharks were the alphas among alphas, some longer than twenty feet, and there were too many to count; even more incredible, this congregation was taking place just twenty-seven miles off the coast of San Francisco. In a matter of months, Casey was being hoisted out of the early-winter swells on a crane, up a cliff face to th...
Avifauna of Sierra Nevada Network Parks
The specific objectives of this report are to synthesize available data and scientific literature on SIEN birds (distribution, abundance, population trends, and demography for 145 focal species), identify and discuss current and future ecological stressors to SIEN bird populations, and describe management options. The overarching purpose for this report is to inform and support the SIEN long-term bird monitoring program and the SEKI Natural Resource Condition Assessment (NRCA). While this report specifically addresses SIEN and SEKI requirements, the scope of this assessment is network-wide and should serve to inform the concurrent YOSE and DEPO NRCA projects.
Identification Guide to North American Birds
On t.p.: "A compendium of information on identifying, ageing, and sexing waterbirds, diurnal raptors, and gallinaceous birds in the hand."
Belonging on an Island
A lively, rich natural history of Hawaiian birds that challenges existing ideas about what constitutes biocultural nativeness and belonging This natural history takes readers on a thousand-year journey as it explores the Hawaiian Islands' beautiful birds and a variety of topics including extinction, evolution, survival, conservationists and their work, and, most significantly, the concept of belonging. Author Daniel Lewis, an award-winning historian and globe-traveling amateur birder, builds this lively text around the stories of four species--the Stumbling Moa-Nalo, the Kaua'I 'O'o, the Palila, and the Japanese White-Eye. Lewis offers innovative ways to think about what it means to be native and proposes new definitions that apply to people as well as to birds. Being native, he argues, is a relative state influenced by factors including the passage of time, charisma, scarcity, utility to others, short-term evolutionary processes, and changing relationships with other organisms. This book also describes how bird conservation started in Hawai'i, and the naturalists and environmentalists who did extraordinary work.
