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Encyclopedia of Birds

By: Foreshaw, Joseph

Price: $22.08

Publisher: New York, New York, U. S. A., Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated: 1991

Seller ID: 002009

ISBN: 0831727853

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Humans have always been fascinated by birds. Dazzled by their colors, and soothed by their melodious songs, humans are perhaps most in awe of birds' ability to fly. Although quite uniform in anatomical terms, birds display a breathtaking diversity of color and form. The one feature that unites this diverse assemblage is the possession of feathers - the defining characteristic of birds. This beautifully illustrated book, with more than 200 magnificent color photographs and 150 original paintings, maps, and diagrams, presents a comprehensive survey of the natural history of birds. The authoritat...
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Picture Primer of Attracting Birds

By: Mason, C. Russell

Price: $15.64

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press Cambridge: 1952

Seller ID: 003614

Condition: Fine in Poor dust jacket

In this book, with 30 pages of text and color illustrations on each page, C. Russell Mason of the Massachusetts Audubon Society covers the fascinating and rewarding hobby of bird attracting in great detail. It begins with the essential rules for bird identification; full directions are given for feeding and housing and the provision of water and trees, shrubs, vines, ground covers, flowers, and seed plants for use in various part of the United States and Canada. This volume is designed for virtually anyone interested in this hobby. The endpapers show birds in color, and the last page of text h...
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The Real Book about Amazing Birds

By: Merriam, Eve

Price: $12.88

Publisher: Illlinois, Garden City Books: 1955

Seller ID: 004621

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket

Did you ever hear of a bird that locks the front door on its nest? Or one that plants fresh flowers in his play house every day? Here is a book of really amazing facts about amazing birds. Some of them live half way around the world - but others live right in your own back yard. There is a bird that flies backwards, and one that chimes like a bell. There are billions of birds in the world. In the United States alone there are fifty times as many birds as people. And out of them all, Eve Merriam has chosen the strangest - birds so extraordinary you will wonder if they really live. They do! The ...
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Dreambirds: the Strange History of the Ostrich in Fashion, Food, and Fortune

By: Nixon, Rob

Price: $7.36

Publisher: New York, New York, U. S. A., Picador USA: 2001

Seller ID: 001635

ISBN: 0312270127

Condition: New with no dust jacket

An Esquire Best Book of the Year, the ostrich is one of nature's misfits: A gigantic bird that can neither fly nor sing. But the fin-de-siecle fetish for feathers made ostrich plumes more precious than gold. Rob Nixon grew up near the South African desert where ostriches first boomed, and had an early passion for the outsize bird. Later, his rejection of apartheid led him to immigrate to the United States, where he encountered a new wave of ostrich mania: American ranchers were trying to convert the gawky bird into a low-cal cuisine. Part memoir, part travelogue, Dreambirds is a natural histor...
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New Generation Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe

By: Perrins, Christopher

Price: $9.20

Publisher: Austin, Texas, U. S. A., Univ Of Texas Pr: 1987

Seller ID: 002358

ISBN: 0292755325

Condition: New with no dust jacket

This information-packed book is really two books in one. The Life of a Bird section tells what it is like to be a bird. It is an account of survival, of the advantages and disadvantages in the various methods of growing up, moulting, feeding, migrating, breeding - of adapting or succumbing to the multiplicity of threats to its existence. The Directory section gives over 1, 500 colour paintings of birds of different ages, sexes and seasons; maps of the distribution of the species that breeed or are regularly seen in Europe; and extensive information on the appearance, status, voice, habitat, ne...
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Category: Birds and Birding

Encyclopedia of Birds

Picture Primer of Attracting Birds

The Real Book about Amazing Birds

Dreambirds: the Strange History of the Ostrich in Fashion, Food, and Fortune

New Generation Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe