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Product Description: This book is a comprehensive study of nest-building behavior in birds. A much-needed synthesis of the previously scattered literature on this central aspect of avian biology, it is organized by behavior problems and focuses on evolution as its unifying theme...read more

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9780691640228 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: This book is a comprehensive study of nest-building behavior in birds.
9780691083582 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 1, 1984, cover price $52.50

Paperback:

9780691612294 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $64.00

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Product Description: Birds are easily spotted in nature, but their homes may not be! This text covers the variety of nests build by birds around the world, from recognizable straw nests in trees to the less common burrows built in the ground. Readers will explore how nests play a role in protecting and incubating eggs, while also gaining insight into the life of birdswhere they live, how they help ecosystems, and how they survive...read more

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9780521233439, titled "Culture and Conduct in the Novels of Henry James" | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1981, cover price $59.95 | also contains Culture and Conduct in the Novels of Henry James | About this edition: This book investigates Henry James' conception of civilisation as culture and the relationships of this conception to James' major works.
9780521077231, titled "Olduvai Gorge: Nineteen Sixty-Nineteen Sixty-Three" | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1971, cover price $135.00 | also contains Olduvai Gorge: Nineteen Sixty-Nineteen Sixty-Three | About this edition: Olduvai Groge is a valley in the Serengeti Plains at the western margin of the Eastern Rift Valley in northern Tanzania.

Paperback:

9781499408744 | Powerkids Pr, August 1, 2015, cover price $8.25 | About this edition: Birds are easily spotted in nature, but their homes may not be!

Library:

9781499409239 | Powerkids Pr, August 1, 2015, cover price $23.60 | About this edition: Birds are easily spotted in nature, but their homes may not be!

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Product Description: Provides a visual guide to bird's eggs from around the globe, covering the incubation, color, and clutch size of each.
By John Bates (editor), Barbara Becker (editor), Mark E. Hauber and John Weinstein (photographer)

Hardcover:

9780226057781 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 28, 2014, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Provides a visual guide to bird's eggs from around the globe, covering the incubation, color, and clutch size of each.

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By Steve Jenkins (illustrator)

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9780312229764, titled "From Expressionism to Post-Modernism: Styles and Movements in 20Th-Century Western Art" | Palgrave Macmillan, May 1, 2000, cover price $17.95 | also contains From Expressionism to Post-Modernism: Styles and Movements in 20Th-Century Western Art

School and Library:

9781442421165 | Simon & Schuster, March 18, 2014, cover price $17.99

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Product Description: This title explores bird nests, using leveled text and vibrant photography. The volume includes a picture glossary and critical thinking activity that supports the Common Core State Standards. Extending learning opportunities are also highlighted, along with notes for parents and teachers...read more

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9781622430239 | Reprint edition (Riverstream Pub, June 1, 2013), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: This title explores bird nests, using leveled text and vibrant photography.

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9781607530091 | Amicus, July 1, 2010, cover price $27.10 | About this edition: "Highlights different types of bird nests, showing where they are located and what they are made of.

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Product Description: Part natural history, part folklore, part exploration of art and aesthetics, part memoir, a beautiful book that will appeal to bird lovers, readers of literature, and art loversAs an amateur naturalist and nature lover, Janine Burke, art historian and author, has spent many years observing birds...read more

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9781742378299 | Allen & Unwin, April 1, 2013, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Part natural history, part folklore, part exploration of art and aesthetics, part memoir, a beautiful book that will appeal to bird lovers, readers of literature, and art loversAs an amateur naturalist and nature lover, Janine Burke, art historian and author, has spent many years observing birds.

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Product Description: Declining bird populations, especially those that breed in North American grasslands, have stimulated extensive research on factors that affect nest failure and reduced reproductive success. Until now, this research has been hampered by the difficulties inherent in observing nest activities...read more
By Pamela J. Pietz (editor), Christine A. Ribic (editor) and Frank R. Thompson, III (editor)

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9780520273139 | Univ of California Pr, June 12, 2012, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Declining bird populations, especially those that breed in North American grasslands, have stimulated extensive research on factors that affect nest failure and reduced reproductive success.

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Hardcover:

9780691148496, titled "Avian Architecture: How Birds Design, Engineer, & Build" | Princeton Univ Pr, May 16, 2011, cover price $29.95

Paperback:

9781435830677 | Powerkids Pr, January 1, 2009, cover price $8.25

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9781435826939 | Powerkids Pr, January 1, 2009, cover price $23.60

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By Bernd Heinrich (foreword by)

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9780674031722 | Belknap Pr, October 15, 2008, cover price $42.00

Miscellaneous:

9781222200119 | Belknap Pr, October 15, 2008, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: Influential American architect Philip Johnson once mused, “All architecture is shelter; all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.” But with just a small swap of a key word, Johnson could well have been describing animal nests...read more
By John M. Bates (contributor), James H. Boone (contributor), Peggy Macnamara and David Quarmmen (foreword by)

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9780226500973 | Univ of Chicago Pr, August 1, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Influential American architect Philip Johnson once mused, “All architecture is shelter; all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

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Describes where, how, and why various species of birds nest.
By Susan Horner and Nancy Munger (illustrator)

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9780802409225 | Moody Pub, February 1, 2004, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Describes where, how, and why various species of birds nest.

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Product Description: Text and photographs introduce birds and the nests in which they build, live, and raise their young.

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9780736851237 | Pebble Plus, January 1, 2004, cover price $7.29 | About this edition: Text and photographs introduce birds and the nests in which they build, live, and raise their young.

Library:

9780736823838 | Pebble Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Simple text and photographs describe birds and the nests in which they live.

Describes how, where, why, and when birds around the world build nests.

Paperback:

9781570915017 | Charlesbridge Pub Inc, February 1, 2002, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Describes how, where, why, and when birds around the world build nests.

School and Library:

9781570915000 | Charlesbridge Pub Inc, February 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Describes how, where, why, and when birds around the world build nests.

Prebinding:

9780613567282 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2002, cover price $15.75 | About this edition: Describes how, where, why, and when birds around the world build nests.

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Product Description: This is the first scientific review of all factors affecting incubation in avian nests. These range from nest construction, egg characteristics and patterns of embryonic development. There is an extensive section describing incubation behaviour of parents and embryos, and there are chapters reviewing brood patch physiology and the various factors determining the incubation environment, including nest microbiology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By D. Charles Deeming (editor)

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9780198508106 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 7, 2002, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: This is the first scientific review of all factors affecting incubation in avian nests.

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Describes some of the various places where birds build nests and lay their eggs.
By Dwight Kuhn (illustrator) and Elaine Pascoe

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9780836830071 | Gareth Stevens Pub, December 1, 2001, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Describes some of the various places where birds build nests and lay their eggs.

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Focuses on the behaviors of various kinds of birds as they return to northern areas in the spring, claim territory, court, build nests, and lay eggs.

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9781583400562 | 1 edition (Smart Apple Media, September 1, 2001), cover price $24.25 | About this edition: Focuses on the behaviors of various kinds of birds as they return to northern areas in the spring, claim territory, court, build nests, and lay eggs.

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Product Description: Describes where and how various species of birds nest, including in tree branches, in hollow trees, near water, and on cliffs. Birds shown include cardinals, the Canadian goose, woodpeckers, great blue herons, pigeons, and Atlantic puffins.

Paperback:

9780736881951 | Pebble Books, August 1, 2000, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Describes where and how various species of birds nest, including in tree branches, in hollow trees, near water, and on cliffs.

Library:

9780736802246 | Pebble Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $20.65 | About this edition: Describes where and how various species of birds nest, including sites in tree branches, in hollow trees, near water, and on cliffs
9780516218069 | Capstone Pr Inc, April 1, 1999, cover price $13.25 | also contains Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

By Pauline Cartwright and David P. Smith (illustrator)

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9780768504057 | Dominie Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $5.50

Photographs and simple text describe the variety of places where birds build nests and lay their eggs.

Paperback:

9780590761833 | Scholastic, June 1, 1998, cover price $3.25 | About this edition: Photographs and simple text describe the variety of places where birds build nests and lay their eggs.

Prebinding:

9780613178341 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $10.10 | About this edition: Photographs and simple text describe the variety of places where birds build nests and lay their eggs.

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Describes the different designs and construction techniques used by various birds to build nests that best suit their needs, and provides information about particular species mentioned

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9781567113761 | Blackbirch Pr Inc, August 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Describes the different designs and construction techniques used by various birds to build nests that best suit their needs, and provides information about particular species mentioned

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Describes the nests of various types of birds and the materials used to build them, including the grass and twig nests of robins, the moss and spider web nests of hummingbirds, and the big stick nests of eagles

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9780736802253 | Pebble Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $21.32 | About this edition: Describes the nests of various types of birds and the materials used to build them, including the grass and twig nests of robins, the moss and spider web nests of hummingbirds, and the big stick nests of eagles

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Profiles twenty-five species of cavity-nesting birds, explains how to attract them, and provides plans for building nestboxes (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9781580171724 | Storey Books, January 1, 1999, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Profiles twenty-five species of cavity-nesting birds, explains how to attract them, and provides plans for building nestboxes

Paperback:

9781580171045 | Storey Books, January 2, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Profiles twenty-five species of cavity-nesting birds, explains how to attract them, and provides plans for building nestboxes

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