Product Description: Before a leaf unfolds or a flower spreads its petals, even before the buds swell, and while yet there is snow on the ground, the birds tell us that spring is at hand. The Song Sparrow sings "Spring, spring, spring, sunny days are here"; the Meadowlark blows his fife, the Downy rattles his drum, and company after company of Grackles in glistening black coats, and of Red-wings with scarlet epaulets, go trooping by...read more

Product Description: Where to Find Birds in Minnesota was first published in 1950 by the Webb Publishing Company of St. Paul. The University of Minnesota Press first published this revised edition in 1955. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions...read more

Product Description: Pp. xii, 262, 25 fine color plates from original paintings by William Zimmerman. Publisher's red cloth, gilt-lettered on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, sm 4to (10.8 x 8.5 inches).

Product Description: Book by Norton, William

Describes the characteristics and behavior of birds, tells where to go to see specific species, and discusses bird photography, banding and rescue projects, Christmas bird counts, birdwatching equipment and techniques, bird houses, and conservation

Product Description: Parents as Partners in Education: Families and Schools Working Together, seventh edition, uniquely provides comprehensive coverage of the history of parenting and parent/school collaboration, current issues and immigration trends affecting American schools and communities, diverse family structures and ethnic groups, and many techniques that teaching professionals can use to engage family members of all children more completely as partners in education...read more

Product Description: Minnesota Birds was first published in 1975.This is an indispensable guidebook for birders in Minnesota, both amateur and professional, and a useful reference work for naturalists elsewhere as well. It provides information about each of the 374 species sighted in the state -- in what seasons they are present, how abundant they are, and in what areas they are likely to be found...read more

Product Description: Originally published by the Carnegie Museum in 1963, newly bound with a biographical note by Kenneth C. PARKES.

This book is the most comprehensive work yet published in one volume on Australian bird life. Full details are given of the field marks, habits, voice characteristics, breeding and nesting habits, and range of each species. To enable quick field identification each description is linked by a serial number to its illustration and also to its relevant distribution map.

If it is still true that more than 80% of the ornithologists in North America are primarily interested or engaged in ecological studies on birds (J. R. King and W. J. Bock, Final Report of the Workshop on a National Plan For Ornithology, 1978), then Volume 3 of Current Orni­ thology is preadapted for their consideration. All but one article in this volume are somehow concerned with the ecological aspects of the bi­ ology of birds. Variation in the scope of topical coverage is relatively broad, and includes conservation, reproduction, behavior, community structure, and evolutionary ecology. Three reviews concern the pervasive effects of man and industry on various bird populations of the world. Risebrough provides a de­ tailed description of the relationships between pesticides and bird pop­ ulations. Morrison ass es ses aspects of bird population numbers as in­ dicators of environmental change, and Temple outlines current research on endangered species. The broad spectrum of reproductive ecology of birds is variously treated in this volume. Jehl and Murray explore sexual selection and some of the resulting complexities in the evolution of sexual size di­ morphism, primarily in shorebirds. Lawton and Lawton are concerned with the relationships between social behavior and breeding systems in which variation is found in the age at which reproduction is first undertaken. Oring examines the wide-ranging variation in polyandrous breeding systems in birds, while Rohwer is concerned with adoption versus infanticide in birds, and their relationships to reproductive fit­ ness.

Product Description: This is a double purpose book, for utility (the addresses of your friends) and for inspiration and challenging thought (a book of quotations). How did it happen? Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974), the distinguished bird-watcher, when commencing to write her autobiography (Research Is a Passion With Me), felt it would be a good idea to begin each chapter with an apt quotation...read more

Product Description: The Description for this book, A Field Guide to Birds of Russia and Adjacent Territories, will be forthcoming.

Identifies over three hundred and ninety species of birds commonly found in Indiana, describes their habitat, characteristics, and behavior, and provides information on migrations and population

Product Description: An unconventional evaluation of the causes which, in the last ten years, have dramatically pushed down the rates of economic growth. The distinguished author, a member of the Club of Rome, argues that it is not simply a question of a new long term economic cycle of the types described by Schumpeter and Kondratieff, but is rather the effect of a fundamental change in the traditional, industrial modes of production...read more

Product Description: Explains the etymological origins of birds' English common names, along with scientific counterparts.

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