Product Description: This volume completes the nonpasserine species and contains accounts for the diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers.

Product Description: Eagerly anticipated by bird-watchers and naturalists in the Pacific Northwest, this volume covers 89 passerines, the largest order of birds, including swallows, corvids, chickadees, wrens, thrushes, starlins, and others. Individual species accounts discuss distribution, seasonality, migratory movements, habit requirements, reproduction, and status, and include distribution maps, figures, and photographs of the birds and their habitats, nests, eggs, and young...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a book on wildlife conservation policy. It aims to bring some understanding to the obscure but vitally important, area of conservation policy; it discusses what we in the conservation community need to uphold and defend if wildlife is to thrive, if biodiversity is to be maintained, if natural renewable resources, of which wildlife is a part, are to be used in a sustainable fashion...read more