Description |
11 volumes (xiii, 846 pages) : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 775-789) and indexes. |
Contents |
v. 1. Albatrosses, petrels, and shearwaters--Bills and diet -- v. 2. Birding--Common moorhen -- v. 3. Conservation--Eastern meadowlark -- v. 4. Eggs and young--Game birds -- v. 5. Great blue heron--Legs and feet -- v. 6. Loggerhead shrike--Owls -- v. 7. Parrots and cockatoos--Ring-billed gull -- v. 8. Rock pigeon--Storks, ibises, and spoonbills -- v. 9. Swallows and martins--Tufted titmouse -- v. 10. Turkey vulture--Wrens and dippers -- v. 11. Glossary, Resources for further study, Indexes. |
Summary |
Birds of all imaginable sizes, shapes, colors, and patterns are nearly everywhere we might care to look, expressing a bewildering array of behaviors and strategies for successful living among all manner of challenges to survival. |
Subject |
Birds.
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Birds -- Pictorial works.
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Added Author |
Mobley, Jason A.
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ISBN |
9780761477754 set |
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0761477756 set |
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