Parking Lot Birding - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Parking Lot Birding write by Jennifer L. Bristol. This book was released on 2020-04-21. Parking Lot Birding available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Texas boasts greater bird diversity than almost any state, with more than six hundred species living in or passing through during spring and fall migrations. Jennifer L. Bristol’s Parking Lot Birding speaks to people who would love to observe a wide variety of birds in easy access locations that don’t require arduous hikes or a degree in ornithology. As she explains, “I have personally trudged down hundreds of miles of trails in Texas, loaded down with gear, searching for birds, only to return to the parking lot to find what I was looking for.” Drawing on her experience as a former park ranger and lifelong nature enthusiast, Bristol explores ninety birding locations that are open to the public and accessible regardless of ability or mobility. Divided by geography, with each of the nine sections centered on a large urban area or defined ecoregion, Parking Lot Birding: A Fun Guide to Discovering Birds in Texas will take readers to birds in locales from the busy heart of Dallas to the remote Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge in the plains north of Lubbock. Each birding stop includes the name and address of a specific birding location, number of species that have been recorded, and types of birding amenities offered. Locational accounts end with a “Feather Fact” that provides interesting and relevant details about selected birds in a particular region. You never know what you might see when on the beaten path, especially in a state as big and ecologically diverse as Texas. So grab your binoculars and let’s go birding!
How to Know the Birds
How to Know the Birds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Know the Birds write by Ted Floyd. This book was released on 2019. How to Know the Birds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In this elegant narrative, celebrated naturalist Ted Floyd guides you through a year of becoming a better birder. Choosing 200 top avian species to teach key lessons, Floyd introduces a new, holistic approach to bird watching and shows how to use the tools of the 21st century to appreciate the natural world we inhabit together whether city, country or suburbs." -- From book jacket.
A Supremely Bad Idea
A Supremely Bad Idea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Supremely Bad Idea write by Luke Dempsey. This book was released on 2009-08-04. A Supremely Bad Idea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An unlikely birder traces his indoctrination into the hobby by a pair of obsessive fellow enthusiasts and their zealous nation-wide search for rare and noteworthy species, in an account that describes their haphazard encounters with human and natural challenges. Reprint.
Birders
Birders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Birders write by Mark Cocker. This book was released on 2003-02. Birders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Journalist Cocker is a member of a community of fanatics who watch birds. Now he offers what "The Baltimore Sun" calls "the most graceful, respectful and technically rich book on [this] fascination."
The Life of the Skies
The Life of the Skies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life of the Skies write by Jonathan Rosen. This book was released on 2008-02-19. The Life of the Skies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aerial delights: A history of America as seen through the eyes of a bird-watcher John James Audubon arrived in America in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president, and lived long enough to see his friend Samuel Morse send a telegraphic message from his house in New York City in the 1840s. As a boy, Teddy Roosevelt learned taxidermy from a man who had sailed up the Missouri River with Audubon, and yet as president presided over America’s entry into the twentieth century, in which our ability to destroy ourselves and the natural world was no longer metaphorical. Roosevelt, an avid birder, was born a hunter and died a conservationist. 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. Rosen argues that bird-watching is nothing less than the real national pastime—indeed it is more than that, because the field of play is the earth itself. We are the players and the spectators, and the outcome—since bird and watcher are intimately connected—is literally a matter of life and death.
