Birds and Birdhouses

Features: Covering the thirty-six species of gulls that occur in North and South America, this unparalleled resource includes detailed identification information for the many plumages gulls display as they mature. More than just a field guide, this large and ambitious volume is the definitive reference work on gulls of the Americas. A group of birds that is popular among birdwatchers, gulls can be frustrating to identify, as they can take up to four years to mature, with different plumages each year. With 1,160 photographs illustrating these plumages, and descriptions by two of North Americas top gull experts, this new reference guide is the authoritative word on gulls.

David Allen Sibley, America's most gifted contemporary painter of birds, is the author and illustrator of this comprehensive guide. His beautifully detailed illustrations

Features: Whether you're curious about the birds in your backyard, or wondering where to find that elusive species to add to your life list, this is the book for you. A comprehensive, definitive atlas of all the more than 800 species of North American birds.

Features: Listen to Birds Sing as you've never listened before, as the world-renowned birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma takes you on personal journeys of discovery and intrigue. Read stories of thrushes and thrashers, wrens and robins, warblers and whip-poor-wills, bluebirds and cardinals, and may more birds. Learn how each acquires its songs, how songs vary from bird to bird and place to place, how some birds' singing is especially beautiful or ceaseless or complex, how some do not sing at all, how the often quiet female has the last word, and why.

The small sized book packs a lot of information! 50 common songbirds are categorized here through five major classifications. Birds are grouped according to where you are most likely to find them: Backyard City Countryside Wetlands and Forests. Accompanying CD lets you match up birdsongs with their photographs. The set features straightforward song samples and beautiful photography. Quite educational and a great way to learn on your own or to share with a child.

Both a pleasure for the eyes and ears this book and CD combination will entertain and thrill as well as educate. Incorporating the aesthetic beauty of birdsong along with the scientific study of them Music Of The Birds will make you realize the magnitude of beauty this hobby offers. Filled with color photographs by the author nearly all specimens noted are shown - usually singing. Author Lang Elliott is known for his superb recordings of birds in their natural habitat and this disc does not disappoint. Over 70 birds are catalogued. This set is simply an aural as well as a visual treat!

Excerpt: Bayou de View is a magical place where wildlife abounds. As we canoed through the swamp, wood ducks and flocks of mallards burst from the water around us. Herds of white-tailed deer, snorting a loud warning, splashed off across the shallow water at the edge of the woods. We saw beavers swimming past and otters playing. The loud calls of barred owls and great horned owls echoed through the dim recesses of the swamp, even at midday. But most impressive were the woodpeckers. Everywhere we turned, we saw a pileate, red-bellied, red-headed, and downy woodpeckers, plus a few yellow-bellied sapsuckers. And then it happened. Less than one hundred feet away, a large black-and-white bird that had been flying toward us from a side channel of the bayou to the right came out into the sunshine and flew across the open stretch of water directly in front of us. It started to bank, giving us a superb view of its back and both wings for a moment as it pulled up, as if it were going to land on a tree trunk. Look at all the white on its wings! I yelled. Hearing my voice, it veered away from the tree and continued to fly to the left. We both cried out simultaneously, Ivory-bill!

The Backyard Bird Lover

Features: Everything readers want to know about feeding, territory, courtship, nesting, and parenting characteristics of 135 species.

Features: The Birder's Bible for more than sixty years, now in large, easy-to-read format. Roger Tory Peterson's classic art is enlarged to new proportions, making bird identification easier than ever. 390 newly updated range maps are located next to the descriptions, opposite the illustrations. Unique Peterson Identification System - tool for field identification and is available only in Peterson Field Guides.

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