Birds! | Pueblo City-County Library

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"One of The Seattle Times 8 Books to Put under a Bird-Lover's Tree 2014" "One of the StarTribune/Lifestyle's Best Birding Books of 2014" "One of the Birder's Library Best Bird Books of 2014" "One of the Birdbooker Report's Best Bird Books of 2014" Steve N. G. Howell is a research associate at PRBO Conservation Science and a staff leader with WINGS, an international bird tour company. His books include Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North...

2) What it's like to be a bird: from flying to nesting, eating to singing--what birds are doing, and why

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Sibley, David

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"'Can birds smell?' 'Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?' 'Do robins "hear" worms?' In [this book], David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special, large-format volume is geared as much to nonbirders as it is to the out-and-out obsessed, covering more than two hundred species and including more than 330 new illustrations by the author"--Publisher marketing.

3) what the robin knows how birds reveal the secrets

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4) Birds of the Pacific Northwest

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Shewey, John

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eBook, Kindle

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Birding in the Pacific Northwest has never been easier! Birds of the Pacific Northwest describes and illustrates more than 400 bird species commonly encountered in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia. This comprehensive, full-color guide is organized to follow the order in which groups and species are presented by the American Union. Range maps for each species provide valuable information for identification. • Detailed accounts...

5) 100 Birds and How They Got Their Names

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Wells, Diana

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How did cranes come to symbolize matrimonial happiness? Why were magpies the only creatures that would not go inside Noah's Ark? Birds and bird imagery are integral parts of our language and culture. With her remarkable ability to dig up curious and captivating facts, Diana Wells hatches a treat for active birders and armchair enthusiasts alike. Meet the intrepid adventurers and naturalists who risked their lives to describe and name new birds....

6) beaks bones and bird songs how the struggle for su

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7) birds of new york city

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8) The Bird Watching Answer Book: Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy Birds in Your Backyard and Beyond

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Erickson, Laura

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Learn the how's and why's of bird behavior, from flirtatious mating practices and gorgeous birdsong to flying south for the winter. In this lively reference book, Laura Erickson addresses hundreds of real-life questions sent in to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the world's foremost authority on birds. With expert advice on bird watching techniques and equipment, feeding and housing birds, protecting habitats, and much more, Erickson guides you through...

9) bluebird effect uncommon bonds with common birds

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10) The Grail Bird: The Rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker

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Gallagher, Tim

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“The Grail Bird is an enjoyable read . . . A powerful call for conservation, and an exciting bird adventure” (The Boston Globe).

What is it about the ivory-billed woodpecker? Why does this ghost of the southern swamps arouse such an obsessive level of passion in its devotees, who range from respected researchers to the flakiest Loch Ness monster fanatics and Elvis chasers?
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11) Their Fate Is Our Fate: How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World

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Doherty, Peter

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At the heart of this book by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty is this striking observation: Birds detect danger to our health and the environment before we do. Following a diverse cast of bird species around the world—from tufted puffins in Puget Sound to griffon vultures in India, pigeons in East Asia, and wedge-tailed shearwaters off the islands of Australia's Great Barrier Reef—Doherty illuminates birds' role as...

12) must see birds of the pacific northwest 85 unforge

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13) My penguin year: life among the emperors

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McCrae, Lindsay

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A "remarkable memoir" (Nature) of life with an emperor penguin colony, gorgeously illustrated with 32 pages of exclusive photography

For 337 days, award-winning wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae intimately followed 11,000 emperor penguins amid the singular beauty of Antarctica. This is his masterful chronicle of one penguin colony's astonishing journey of life, death, and rebirth—and of the extraordinary

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14) Buddy: How a Rooster Made Me a Family Man

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McGrory, Brian

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eAudiobook, Pre-loaded Audiobook

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-- Marley and Me, Dewey, and The Tender Bar comes a heartwarming and wise tale of finding love in life’s second chapter - and how it means all the more when you have to fight for it.

15) H is for hawk

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Macdonald, Helen

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New York Times Bestseller: This account of adopting and raising a vicious bird of prey while grieving a father’s death is “a soaring wonder of a book” (The Boston Globe).
One of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year

One of Slate’s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years

Time’s #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year
An instant

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16) Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood

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Masear, Terry

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A heartwarming memoir by “one of California’s hardest-working hummingbird rehabilitators . . . will leave the average bird lover agog” (The Washington Post).

Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna’s hummingbird with a head and throat cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers, could spiral 130 feet in the air, dive 60 miles per hour in a courtship display, hover,...

17) alex and me how a scientist and a parrot discovere

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18) The Art of Hummingbird Gardening: How to Make Your Backyard into a Beautiful Home for Hummingbirds

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Tekulsky, Mathew

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eBook, Kindle

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This book is devoted solely to hummingbird gardening and is a practical guide to cultivating flowers and other plants that will attract the hummingbirds of North America to your home and garden. You will be able to grow flowers in profusion and provide nectar for these smallest of birds, which hover on fast-beating wings while they drink from flowers including pink Chinese lantern, bladderpod, woolly blue curls, scarlet sage, penstemon, columbine,...

19) A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Malaysia & Singapore: Including Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Borneo

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Strange, Morten

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Whether traveling through Southeast Asia or relaxing at home, bird lovers will enjoy this thorough and colorful Malaysian & Singapore bird watching guide. This illustrated bird watching book is the first comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of Malaysia and Singapore, mainland Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Borneo. Included are the birds of Thailand and Vietnam, as well as those found in South China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. This birding...

20) A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Sri Lanka & India: Including Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutanh, Bangladesh, & the Maldives

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Grewal, Bikram

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A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Sri Lanka and India is the best, most comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of South Asia. Because of its vast size and geographical location, the Indian subcontinent has some of the world's most diverse avifauna. It boasts of thousands of species. This birdwatching book covers over 800 species and distinct sub-species and contains over 1, 000 full-color photographs. Each species has a distribution map....