Birds
Eric G. Bolen and Dan Flores, The Mississippi Kite: Portrait of a Southern Hawk "The Mississippi Kite ranges throughout the southern United States from the coasts of the Carolinas to the plains of the Southwest. Bolen and Flores describe all aspects of the kite's life cycle, from breeding and nesting, raising young, and hunting and feeding to the kite's annual return to its winter range deep in South America."
Published by University of Texas Press, 1993. 115 pages, about 6 x 9¼ inches, hardcover. New, remainder.
Item #212. Shipping weight: 1.3 lbs. Cover price: $17.95. Your price: $3.00
Mary Taylor Gray, Watchable Birds of the Rocky Mountains Photographs by Weldon Lee. A photographic guide to the more noticeable and "fun to watch" birds you may see in the Rockies. It is particular good in giving information on each species that an all-inclusive field guide wouldn't have room to include, and is designed for people who would like to know more about birds, but are not really avid birders. The photographs are of excellent quality and a treat for bird lovers of any ability.
Published by Mountain Press Publishing, 1992. 155 pages, about 5½ x 8½ inches, paperback. New, remainder.
Item #342. Shipping weight: 0.9 lb. Cover price: $14.00. Your price: $4.00
Bernd Heinrich, Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds "This is an amazing book by an amazing author. Heinrich is a scientist and naturalist of the first rank, champion ultramarathoner, woodsman of skills seldom seen in modern times, and not least, as Mind of the Raven illustrates, a nature writer of uncommon talent. By living with the ravens over many years, literally at home and in the field, he has documented a level of intelligence and social sophistication rarely even dreamed to exist in birds."—Edward O. Wilson.
Harper Collins, 1999. 380 pages, about 5 x 8 inches, paperback. New.
Item #225. Shipping weight: 1.2 lbs. Publisher's price: $14.95. Your price: $8.50
National Geographic, Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Fifth EditionA book which many birders consider the best field guide to the birds of the United States and Canada. Enables you to identify 967 species, including some rare or accidental migrants, featuring full-color diagnostic paintings and range maps. The text describes field marks, adult (distinguishing male and female when these differ) and juvenile plumages, calls and songs, and the range in winter, summer, and year-round for non-migratory species. The index doubles as a checklist.
This new edition includes 80 more species than the prior edition, thumbtabs which help get you faster to major sections of the book, and fold-out end flaps that include detailed illustrations of bird anatomical terms, a National Geographic quality map of physical regions of North America, and a quick-find index. The cover image above shows the prior edition; this one is similar, but has a yellow spine and only the bald eagle illustration, not the other birds.
This new edition includes 80 more species than the prior edition, thumbtabs which help get you faster to major sections of the book, and fold-out end flaps that include detailed illustrations of bird anatomical terms, a National Geographic quality map of physical regions of North America, and a quick-find index. The cover image above shows the prior edition; this one is similar, but has a yellow spine and only the bald eagle illustration, not the other birds.
Published by the National Geographic Society, 2006. 503 pages, about 5 x 8 inches, paperback. New.
Item #201. Shipping weight: 1.8 lbs. Publisher's price: $24.00. Your price: $19.60
Roger Tory Peterson, Field Guide to Western Birds, Third EditionA Completely New Guide to Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian and North of Mexico
The last edition of the classic work by the late Roger Peterson, the ornithologist and naturalist whose first field guides set the standard for decades to follow. This is still the favorite guide of many birders in the west, for you are not distracted by the inclusion of eastern birds, and Peterson's paintings have more vivid and crisp colors than Sibley's comparable work. Text in this edition is on the page facing the illustration (unlike the first two editions). Range maps by Virginia Marie Peterson (showing summer, winter, and year-round ranges) are included at the back of the book.
Each species entry includes common name, scientific name, description including field marks, description of the voice, range, and habitat. Description of the family each bird belongs to gives common traits of the members of that family including food items. The illustrations, which are full-color paintings showing the species in characteristic poses (without the limitations of poor lighting and individually idiosyncratic moments captured by photographs), use the famous "Peterson system" of arrows pointing to key field marks. A checklist precedes the index in the back of the book.
Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1990. 432 pages, about 4¾ x 7½ inches, flexible hardcover. New.
Item #35. Shipping weight: 1.7 lbs. Publisher's price: $19.95. Your price: $15.00
Marie Winn, Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park "An amazing drama, as good as any soap opera and all the more remarkable since it is a true wildlife story."—Birding
Vintage Departures, 1999. 317 pages, about 5 x 8 inches, paperback. New.
Item #319. Shipping weight: 1.0 lb. Publisher's price: $13.00. Your price: $8.70
National Geographic, Bird Migration in the Americas posterMap of North and South America showing the migration routes of dozens of species of birds. It is supplemented by excellent paintings of the birds covered, and includes notes on each. This is a great poster for inspiring thought about where those common spring and summer backyard birds (not to mention raptors and seabirds) go in the winter—and demonstrating that conservation strategies cannot stop at national borders, for most of the birds shown are international travelers.
Scale, 1:20,000,000 (1 inch = about 315 miles). Size: about 23 x 36 inches. Rolled poster. Paper.
Published by National Geographic Maps, 1983 (2000, limited revision). New.
Item #NG-602810. Shippig weight: 1.0 lb. Publisher's price: $10.99. Your price: $9.00
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