The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior - 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 Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior write by David Allen Sibley. This book was released on 2009. The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides basic information about the biology, life cycles, and behavior of birds, along with brief profiles of each of the eighty bird families in North America.
What It's Like to Be a Bird
What It's Like to Be a Bird - 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 What It's Like to Be a Bird write by David Allen Sibley. This book was released on 2020-04-14. What It's Like to Be a Bird available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The bird book for birders and nonbirders alike that will excite and inspire by providing a new and deeper understanding of what common, mostly backyard, birds are doing—and why: "Can birds smell?"; "Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?"; "Do robins 'hear' worms?" "The book's beauty mirrors the beauty of birds it describes so marvelously." —NPR In What It's Like to Be a Bird, 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. While its focus is on familiar backyard birds—blue jays, nuthatches, chickadees—it also examines certain species that can be fairly easily observed, such as the seashore-dwelling Atlantic puffin. David Sibley's exacting artwork and wide-ranging expertise bring observed behaviors vividly to life. (For most species, the primary illustration is reproduced life-sized.) And while the text is aimed at adults—including fascinating new scientific research on the myriad ways birds have adapted to environmental changes—it is nontechnical, making it the perfect occasion for parents and grandparents to share their love of birds with young children, who will delight in the big, full-color illustrations of birds in action. Unlike any other book he has written, What It's Like to Be a Bird is poised to bring a whole new audience to David Sibley's world of birds.
Sibley's Birding Basics
Sibley's Birding Basics - 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 Sibley's Birding Basics write by David Allen Sibley. This book was released on 2008-12-18. Sibley's Birding Basics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the renowned author of the New York Times best seller The Sibley Guide to Birds, a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide to identifying birds in the field. Sibley's Birding Basics is an essential companion for birders of all skill and experience levels. With Sibley as your guide, learn how to interpret what the feathers, the anatomical structure, the sounds of a bird tell you. When you know the clues that show you why there’s no such thing as, for example, “just a duck” birding will be more fun, and more meaningful. An essential addition to the Sibley shelf! The Sibley Guide to Birds and The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior are both universally acclaimed as the new standard source of species information. And now David Sibley, America’s premier birder and best-known bird artist, turns his attention to the general characteristics that influence the appearance of all birds, unlocking the clues to their identity. In 200 beautifully rendered illustrations and 16 essays, this scientifically precise volume distills the essence of Sibley’s own experience and skills, providing a solid introduction to “naming” the birds. Birding Basics reviews how one can get started as a birder—the equipment necessary, where and when to go birding, and perhaps most important, the essential things to look for when birds appear in the field—as well as the basic concepts of bird identification and the variations that can change the appearance of a bird over time or in different settings. Sibley also provides critical information on the aspects of avian life that differ from species to species: feathers (color, arrangement, shape, molt), behavior and habitat, and sounds.
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior - 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 Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior write by National Audubon Society. This book was released on 2001. The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Authoritative and comprehensive, this reference provides the necessary information about the biology, life cycles, and behavior of the 80 bird families of North America. For the new volume, Sibley has provided more than 796 full-color paintings to illustrate the essays and family chapters written by 44 ornithologists and expert birders.
Bright Wings
Bright Wings - 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 Bright Wings write by Billy Collins. This book was released on 2012-11-06. Bright Wings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and James Wright, poets have long treated birds as powerful metaphors for beauty, escape, transcendence, and divine expression. Here, in this substantial anthology, more than one hundred contemporary and classic poems are paired with close to sixty original, ornithologically precise illustrations. Part poetry collection, part field guide, part art book, Bright Wings presents verbal and visual interpretations of the natural world and reminds us of our intimate connection to the "bright wings" around us. Each in their own way, these poems and pictures honor the enchanting creatures that have been, and continue to be, longtime collaborators with the poet's and painter's art. Poet and bird pairings include: Wallace Stevens and the Blackbird; Emily Dickinson and the Robin; Marianne Moore and the Frigate Pelican; Thomas Hardy and the Goldfinch; Sylvia Plath and the Pheasant; John Updike and the Seagull; Walt Whitman and the Eagle; Billy Collins and the Sparrow.
