Laura Erickson, Marie Read

Into the Nest (eBook, ePUB)

Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Documentary photography and intriguing facts provide a close encounter with the domestic lives of North American birds found in backyards, city neighborhoods, forests, fields, and waterways, from first flirtation to the final fledgling's departure from the nest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781612122304
• Artikelnr.: 42660599

Autorenporträt

Laura Erickson is the author of The Love Lives of Birds and The Bird Watching Answer Book, and is coauthor of Into the Nest. A recipient of the American Birding Association's prestigious Roger Tory Peterson award, she has served as science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, an editor of Bird Scope magazine, and a columnist and contributing editor for Birdwatching magazine. She produces For the Birds, a long-running public radio program and podcast, and lives in Duluth, Minnesota.

Marie (pronounced "Maury") Read's photographs and articles have been featured in numerous magazines, including National Geographic, Bird Watching, Birds & Blooms, and Bird Watcher's Digest. Marie previously worked at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology as photo/illustrations editor for the Home Study Course in Bird Biology, and later as photo editor/content developer for the All About Birds website. She lives in Freeville, New York.

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Part One
The Facts of Bird Life
Courting and Mating
Enter the Egg
Nesting and Parenting
Part Two
The Family Lives of Selected Species
Mallard
Great Blue Heron
Red-Tailed Hawk, Bald Eagle, and Turkey Vulture
Killdeer
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon and Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Hummingbirds
Woodpeckers
Peregrine Falcon
Phoebes
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree and Barn Swallows
Chickadees and Nuthatches
House Wren
Bluebirds and Robins
Northern Mockingbird
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow Warbler
Chipping Sparrow
Tanagers
Northern Cardinal
Blackbirds and Orioles
American Goldfinch
Appendix
  Nesting Facts at a Glance
  Glossary
  Acknowledgements
  Index