Product Description: Swift and iridescent, hummingbirds are found only in the New World, and encompass an amazing variety of specializations. No other family of birds can lay claim to so many superlatives, including smallest size, most rapid wingbeat, and most specialized plumages...read more

Product Description: Of all birdgroups, none is more closely associated with the world's tropical forests than trogons and quetzals. With shimmering golden-green feathers and long ornamental tail coverts, Central America's resplendent quetzal often has been called the world's most beautiful bird...read more

Product Description: This book by the renowned naturalist and writer Paul A. Johnsgard tells the complex biological and environmental story of the western Great Plains under the black-tailed prairie dog’s reign—and then under a brief but devastating century of human dominion...read more

Product Description: Yellowstone Wildlife is a natural history of the wildlife species that call Yellowstone National Park and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem their home. Illustrated with stunning images by renowned wildlife photographer Thomas Mangelsen, Yellowstone Wildlife describes the lives of species in the park, exploring their habitats from the Grand Tetons to Jackson Hole...read more

Product Description: An in-depth biological overview of a fascinating group of waterfowl'Paul A. Johnsgard’s first glimpse of a North American ruddy duck—a chestnut-brown bird with a blue bill, black head, and white cheeks—led to decades of observing the eight extant species of stiff-tailed ducks...read more

Product Description: Arising in two separate streams high in the Rockies and flowing east across the plains to meet the Missouri near Omaha, Nebraska, the Platte River is a microcosm of the geologic, plant, animal, and human worlds. Way station for the sandhill cranes, home of the Plains Indians, and artery for the great westward migrations of the nineteenth century, the Platte Valley offers a rich diversity of life and history...read more

Product Description: Although its history is etched on canyon walls reaching back twenty million years, the Niobrara is very much a river of today. Stretching 535 miles from its headwaters to the Missouri River, it is one of Nebraska’s least altered waterways and is designated as a national scenic river...read more

Where the eastern and western currents of American life merge as smoothly as one river flows into another is a place called Nebraska. There we find the Platte, a river that gave sustenance to the countless migrants who once trudged westward along the Mormon and Oregon trails. We find the Sandhills, a vast region of sandy grassland that represents the largest area of dunes and the grandest and least disturbed region of mixed-grass prairies in all the Western Hemisphere. And, below it all, we find the Ogallala aquifer, the largest potential source of unpolluted water anywhere. These ecological treasures are all part of the nature of Nebraska. With characteristic clarity, energy, and charm, Paul A. Johnsgard guides us through Nebraska’s incredible biodiversity, introducing us to each ecosystem and the flora and fauna it sustains and inviting us to contemplate the purpose and secrets of the natural world as we consider our own roles and responsibilities in our connection with it.

A photographic study and celebration of the variety and uniqueness of prairie wildlife focuses on 150 key species, discussing the ecology, behavior, and life histories of numerous breeding birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. (Biology & Natural History)

A beautifully rendered reference guide to the Great Plains portion of the famous expedition through the American West highlights the explorer's remarkable encounters with previously undocumented flora and fauna as they moved through the Plains region. Original. (Biology & Natural History)

Provides stories of bird watching in many unexpected places, including city parks, marinas, cemeteries, parking lots, and sewage ponds. (view table of contents)

Provides an overview of 121 birds, mammals, and reptiles native to the Great Plains, organized by habitat with information on each animal's behavior and ecology. (view table of contents)

Describes the evolution, ecology, behavior, and life cycle of owls, and looks at nineteen different kinds of owls

Product Description: Paul Johnsgard, one of the world's leading ornithologists, has written this book as a call to action. Conservationists have seen a marked decline in the populations of North American grouse, particularly the grassland-adapted species...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this newest and up-to-date book in a long line of respected works, Paul A. Johnsgard provides a comprehensive review of all thirty-one species of diurnal raptors that breed in the United States and Canada.In his thorough style, Johnsgard presents the evolutionary history and the morphological features of this diverse group...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

One of the nation's premier ornithologists documents the great diversity of prairie birds in drawings and photographs that capture their habits, habitats, migratory patterns, breeding practices, and beauty. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Brings together extensive information on the comparative biology and conservation status of the world's wild pheasant populations.

Product Description: "As I write this, I am sitting in a cabin at Cedar Point Biological Station in southwestern Nebraska.... The glorious elemental mixture of earth, water, and sky around me is the home of nearly three hundred species of birds, and comprises one of my favorite places in the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September l986. The series attempts to bring together archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent disciplines and also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. The series addresses world archaeology in its widest sense, investigating how people lived in the past and how and why changes took place, resulting in the forms of society and culture which exist today. In this particular volume, the essays are derived from discussions on the themes of "Material Culture and the Making of the Modern United States: Views from Native America". It presents a series of statements about the complexities of the interpretation of the past, together with case studies which demonstrate, in a wide variety of contexts, the way that particular interactions between "natives" and "Europeans" (in the very recent past as well as in the 16th and 17th centuries) have had diverse consequences. The insensitivity of archaeology's unquestioning assumption that lands are only really "discovered" when Europeans have arrived is explored and concludes that decision making must be in the hands of the social and cultural groups whose ancestors may be disturbed if archaeological investigations are allowed to proceed.

Product Description: Graced with illustrations by the author, Crane Music introduces the two North American crane species. The sandhill, most often seen, is within easy reach of bird-watchers in the center of the continent. Less visible is the whooping crane, struggling back from near extinction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The Nebraska Sandhills is the largest area of sand dunes in the western hemisphere, covering an area about as large as Vermont, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island combined. Unlike most dunes, the Sandhills region supports an astonishing variety of wildlife...read more