| Description |
xvi, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. + 2 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
| Note |
Compact discs contain recordings of the birdsong sonagrams shown in the book. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-335) and index. |
| Contents |
A pileated woodpecker goes to her roost on New Year's Day -- The harbingers of spring (robins) in their winter roost -- An all-nighter among the wading birds in the everglades -- The limpkins of corkscrew swamp -- Florida scrub-jay families -- The anhingas of anhinga trail, Everglades national park -- Sandhill cranes on the Platte River -- A tropical pilgrimage -- Two Virginia mimics: brown thrasher, white-eyed vireo -- Baltimore oriole - she sings, too -- A prairie dawn on our Pawnee National grassland -- Belted kingfishers on the Connecticut river -- Listening with Dave: a June dawn in Hatfield cemetery -- Blackburnian warblers of mount greylock -- The dawn and day songs of scarlet tanagers -- Yearling indigo buntings learn the local microdialect -- The cedar waxwing: a songbird without a song? -- Young of the year practice their songs -- A wood thrush goes to roost -- The flight calls of nocturnal migrants -- The autumnal drumming of a ruffed grouse -- Time travel: revisiting two hermit thrushes in June -- A northern mockingbird defends her winter territory -- The winter solstice is the first day of spring. |
| Subject |
Birdsongs -- United States.
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Birds -- Vocalization -- United States.
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Songbirds -- Seasonal distribution -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Haver, Nancy, illustrator.
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| Added Title |
Bird song by the seasons |
| ISBN |
9780618753369 |
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0618753362 |
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