Cape Coral Burrowing Owls Don T Hoot

This book is the only non-fiction book written specifically about the Burrowing Owls of Cape Coral, Florida. It gives the history of Cape Coral and how the owls got there. Learn about the owl's diet, habitat, reproduction, senses, feathers, flight, and more. Even though there may be as many as 3500 owls in the city, navigating around the city's extensive 400-mile canal system can be a challenge, and finding the owls can be equally challenging. This book can serve as your guide. Even if you are not planning on visiting, you will learn how every structure in their body works towards two goals, flight, and eating. Personal stories from the author are scattered throughout the book and wouldn't you want to know why you might find a pair of ladies' underwear in front of a burrow?

Prior to the 1950's, Cape Coral had vast expanses of wetlands, teeming with beautiful waterbirds, and miles and miles of woodland areas that was home to an incredible variety of wildlife. Then the bulldozers came and destroyed most of the habitat of the wildlife that existed here. But like the Phoenix, out if [sic] the destruction, the little Burrowing Owl, found Cape Coral to be perfect habitat. With miles and miles of soft sandy soil they could dig thier [sic] burrows, and they thrived. But the bulldozers continue to roll and the future for these tiny little birds looks bleak. Cape Coral is expected to build out to 450,000 people with little room left for the Burrowing Owl. It is hoped that this little book gives you an understanding of these marvelous creatures and why they should be protected so future generations will have the joy of seeing these beautiful birds in person.

Seventy six pages of beautiful, interesting, cute pictures of the diminutive burrowing owls of Cape Coral, Florida.

When you think "bird nest," you think tree, correct? Not for these little owls! Burrowing owls make their homes underground. You can learn more about these pint-sized predators with full colour photos, range maps, and carefully levelled text.

This Newbery Honor winner and #1 New York Times bestseller is a beloved modern classic. Hoot features a new kid and his new bully, alligators, some burrowing owls, a renegade eco-avenger, and several extremely poisonous snakes. Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls' fate cemented in pancake batter? Welcome to Carl Hiaasen's Florida—where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder!

Unlock the secrets behind the behavior of the world's most fascinating creatures-from the Adélie penguin to the plains zebra to the giant panda-in this wonderfully written, beautifully illustrated book. In The Secret Language of Animals, biologist Janine Benyus takes us inside the animal kingdom and shows us the whys and the hows behind the distinctive behavior of creatures great and small in their natural environments. Divided geographically into five sections-Africa, Asia, North America, the oceans, and the poles-the book examines and describes the behavior, body language, and patterns of communication of 20 different animals: the gorilla, lion, African elephant, plains zebra, black rhinoceros, giraffe, ostrich, greater flamingo, Nile crocodile, giant panda, peacock, Komodo monitor, bottlenose dolphin, California sea lion, gray wolf, bald eagle, sandhill crane, beluga whale, polar bear, and Adélie penguin. For each animal, Benyus describes and explains basic behaviors (locomotion, feeding, drinking, bathing, grooming, sleeping), communication behavior (greeting, social play, group defense, conflict, aggression/submission, fighting, courtship, copulation), and parenting behavior (birth, care and feeding, teaching, communal care). The book is illustrated throughout with tender yet precise line drawings that beckon us to the animals and vividly capture everything from changing facial expressions to nurturing postures to playful and aggressive interactions. The text, too, is both intimate and informative, allowing for a deep connection with, and a great admiration for, each one of the animals.

A haunting tribute to the heroic pioneers who shaped the American Midwest This powerful novel by Willa Cather is considered to be one of her finest works and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists. It tells the stories of several immigrant families who start new lives in America in rural Nebraska. This powerful tribute to the quiet heroism of those whose struggles and triumphs shaped the American Midwest highlights the role of women pioneers, in particular. Written in the style of a memoir penned by Antonia’s tutor and friend, the book depicts one of the most memorable heroines in American literature, the spirited eldest daughter of a Czech immigrant family, whose calm, quite strength and robust spirit helped her survive the hardships and loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. The two form an enduring bond and through his chronicle, we watch Antonia shape the land while dealing with poverty, treachery, and tragedy. “No romantic novel ever written in America...is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.” -H. L. Mencken Willa Cather (1873–1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of the Plains and for One of Ours, a novel set in World War I, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943 and received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1944, an award given once a decade for an author's total accomplishments. By the time of her death she had written twelve novels, five books of short stories, and a collection of poetry.

Rhyming text and illustrations introduce the colorful world of lizards. Includes a reference section providing more information about the lizards mentioned in the text.