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Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder
Author | : Julia Zarankin |
Publsiher | : Douglas & McIntyre |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2020-09-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781771622493 |
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When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-five, she didn’t expect that it would change her life. Recently divorced and auditioning hobbies during a stressful career transition, she stumbled on birdwatching, initially out of curiosity for the strange breed of humans who wear multi-pocketed vests, carry spotting scopes and discuss the finer points of optics with disturbing fervour. What she never could have predicted was that she would become one of them. Not only would she come to identify proudly as a birder, but birding would ultimately lead her to find love, uncover a new language and lay down her roots. Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder tells the story of finding meaning in midlife through birds. The book follows the peregrinations of a narrator who learns more from birds than she ever anticipated, as she begins to realize that she herself is a migratory species: born in the former Soviet Union, growing up in Vancouver and Toronto, studying and working in the United States and living in Paris. Coming from a Russian immigrant family of concert pianists who believed that the outdoors were for “other people,” Julia Zarankin recounts the challenges and joys of unexpectedly discovering one’s wild side and finding one’s tribe in the unlikeliest of places. Zarankin’s thoughtful and witty anecdotes illuminate the joyful experience of a new discovery and the surprising pleasure to be found while standing still on the edge of a lake at six a.m. In addition to confirmed nature enthusiasts, this book will appeal to readers of literary memoir, offering keen insight on what it takes to find one’s place in the world.
Nature All Around Birds
Author | : Pamela Hickman |
Publsiher | : Kids Can Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781525306037 |
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The perfect resource for budding bird-watchers. Because birds can be found in every neighborhood, and in all seasons, they’re an excellent choice for piquing children’s interest in wildlife. Here’s a comprehensive guide to birds that makes the perfect starting point. Beautiful pages explore many different bird species and their fascinating and unique characteristics, from feathers to eggs and nests. A year in the life of birds explains what to look for, season by season. And the beginning bird-watcher section helps kids get started in the field. Birds of a feather? More like, birds of every feather here! Kids will be grabbing their binoculars to spot them all around!
Birds in Roman Life and Myth
Author | : Ashleigh Green |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2023-03-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781000842074 |
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This book explores the place of birds in Roman myth and everyday life, focusing primarily on the transitional period of 100 BCE to 100 CE within the Italian peninsula. A diverse range of topics is considered in order to build a broad overview of the subject. Beginning with an appraisal of omens, augury, and auspices – including the ‘sacred chickens’ consulted by generals before battle – it goes on to examine how Romans farmed birds, hunted them, and kept them as pets. It demonstrates how the ownership and consumption of birds were used to communicate status and prestige, and how bird consumption mirrored wider economic and social trends. Each topic adopts an interdisciplinary approach, considering literary evidence alongside art, material culture, zooarchaeology, and modern ornithological knowledge. The inclusion of zooarchaeology adds another dimension to the work and highlights the value of using animals and faunal remains to interpret the past. Studying the Roman view of birds offers great insight into how they conceived of their relationship with the gods and how they stratified and organised their society. This book is a valuable resource for bird lovers and researchers alike, particularly those studying animals in the ancient world.
The Pleasure of Birds
Author | : Les Line |
Publsiher | : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1975-01-01 |
Genre | : Birds |
ISBN | : 0397010656 |
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The Sibley Guide to Bird Life Behavior
Author | : David Allen Sibley |
Publsiher | : Alfred a Knopf Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1400043867 |
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Provides basic information about the biology, life cycles, and behavior of birds, along with brief profiles of each of the eighty bird families in North America.
Charles Darwin s Life with Birds
Author | : Clifford B. Frith |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780190240233 |
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Focuses exclusively on Darwin the ornithologist, not on biographical aspects of Darwin's life.
Birds of Central America
Author | : Andrew C. Vallely,Dale Dyer |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780691184159 |
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The first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Central America Birds of Central America is the first comprehensive field guide to the avifauna of the entire region, including Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Handy and compact, the book presents text and illustrations for nearly 1,200 resident and migrant species, and information on all rare vagrants. Two hundred sixty detailed plates on convenient facing-page spreads depict differing ages and sexes for each species, with a special focus on geographic variation. The guide also contains up-to-date range maps and concise notes on distribution, habitat, behavior, and voice. An introduction provides a brief overview of the region’s landscape, climate, and biogeography. The culmination of more than a decade of research and field experience, Birds of Central America is an indispensable resource for all those interested in the bird life of this part of the world. Detailed information on the entire avifauna of Central America 260 beautiful color plates Range maps, text, and illustrations presented on convenient facing-page spreads Up-to-date notes on distribution supported by an extensive bibliography Special focus on geographic variation of bird species
The Natural History of Cage Birds
Author | : Johann Matthäus Bechstein |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : Cage birds |
ISBN | : BL:A0021861595 |
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