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If there's one bird that might win the "best actor" award in the feathered world, it's the mockingbird. This winged wonder can learn more than 180 songs in just a few months, imitating the calls of other birds but also dog-barking and even car alarms! This is truly one bird to watch and one that readers will love learning about in the pages of this fascinating volume. The journal-like format unites a cheerful narrative about the bird-watching hobby...

If you hear a mourning dove's gentle cooing, don't look up-look down. These graceful creatures like to forage for seeds on the ground. They've been known to gobble up as many as 17,000 seeds in a sitting! Young bird watchers will be fascinated by the hidden life of these birds including migration habits, habitats, mating rituals, and some awesome adaptations for survival. Their guide to all-things-birds is a young bird watcher, encouraging readers...

"If you've ever been intrigued by chirping in the treetops or wished you could attract more bird life to your front porch, 'The Joy of Birding' is for you. Here is the ideal illustrated companion for becoming a successful bird watcher. This colorful and unique guide combines the best of all birding books--it offers basic instructions for beginning birders, a key for identifying popular birds, and tips for attracting beautiful winged visitors to your...

How to Know the Birds introduces a new, holistic approach to bird-watching, by noting how behaviors, settings, and seasonal cycles connect with shape, song, color, gender, age distinctions, and other features traditionally used to identify species. With short essays on 200 observable species, expert author Ted Floyd guides us through a year of becoming a better birder, each species representing another useful lesson: from explaining scientific nomenclature...

Hummingbirds may be the most jaw-dropping birds. Their wings flap 80 times per second 80 times! and they can also hover! Astonishing facts like these abound in this guide to the diminutive bird, in the appealing guise of a young bird watcher s journal. The narrator takes readers under his wing, showing them how they, too, can be bird watchers while addressing important science concepts accompanied by beautiful photographs of hummingbirds in flight....

"Many birders travel far and wide to popular birding destinations to catch sight of rare or 'exotic' birds. In Slow Birding, evolutionary biologist Joan E. Strassmann introduces readers to the joys of birding right where they are. In this inspiring guide to the art of slow birding, Strassmann tells colorful stories of the most common birds to be found in the United States--birds we often see but might not have considered deeply before"--

Recounts Dempsey's descent from general respectability into birding mania. It is the story of an epic journey around American in search of the rarest and most beautiful birds the country has to offer.

Today, forty-six million Americans are bird-watchers. The Life of the Skies is a genre-bending journey into the meaning of a pursuit born out of the tangled history of industrialization and nature longing. Jonathan Rosen set out on a quest not merely to see birds but to fathom their centrality--historical and literary, spiritual and scientific--to a culture torn between the desire both to conquer and to conserve. The Life of the Skies is at once a...