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This audiobook is a comprehensive guide to the plumage, habits, and calls of birds found along the West Coast of America, catering to both novice birdwatchers and seasoned ornithologists. It also includes an introduction to birdwatching.

This southeastern birding companion is a helpful audiobook for bird lovers interested in the unique avifauna of the American Southeast. Ideal for hobbyist birdwatchers, wildlife enthusiasts, and expert ornithologists, this audio companion offers a thorough journey into the realm of bird recognition and appreciation through their distinctive calls.

This audio guide is an essential resource for bird enthusiasts interested in the bird species of the American Northeast and Eastern Canada. Perfect for those engaged in backyard birding, nature exploration, and serious ornithology, this audio guide is a detailed and immersive tool for recognizing and understanding birds through their vocalizations, plumage and habitat.

This Midwest Birding Audiobook is a must-have resource for bird enthusiasts, offering an in-depth exploration of bird species common to the Midwest region of the United States. Ideal for backyard birdwatchers, nature lovers, and avid birders, this audiobook is a comprehensive guide to understanding and identifying birds by their calls.

Each essay illuminates the life of a single species and its relationship to humans, and how these species can help us understand birds in general. A dedicated birdwatcher and teacher, Gedney finds wonder not only in the speed and glistening beauty of the Anna's hummingbird, but also in her nest building. He acclaims the turkey vulture's and red-tailed hawk's roles in our ecosystem, and he venerates the inimitable California scrub jay's work planting acorns.

Seeing more birds than you ever imagined and witnessing exciting avian drama is possible-whether you're on the go or in your own neighborhood, local park, or backyard. As Heather Wolf explains, it all comes down to how you tune in to the show happening around you, the one in which birds-highly skilled at staying under the radar-are the stars. In Find More Birds, Heather shares her very best tactics.

It began with a flutter of yellow feathers flitting through the trees, casting beams of sunshine and promise that burst through her kitchen window. This was her sign to look up. As a licensed therapist, Tammah Watts knew that she needed to seek and accept hope, love, and support to overcome her...

Fact: Pigeons are amazing, and until recently, humans adored them. We've kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over battlefields, harvested their poop to fertilize our crops—and cooked them in gourmet dishes. Now, with A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching, listeners can rediscover the wonder. Equal parts field guide and quirky history, it covers behavior: Why they coo; how they flock; how they preen, kiss, and mate (monogamously); and how they raise their young (on chunky pigeon milk).

In The Birdhouse Chronicles, internationally bestselling author Cathleen Miller offers a funny and wise account of how she and her husband abandon their San Francisco advertising careers to make a radical new life for themselves in a one-hundred-year-old Pennsylvania farmhouse located in the middle of an Amish cornpatch. Part memoir, part nature writing, and part old-house-restoration journal, this wonderfully humorous narrative brings home all the humor, exhilaration, and disappointment of pursuing a “simpler” life in the country.

On suspension and unable to work, DCI Domenic Jejeune finds his attention snared by an unexplained death at an Antarctic research base. Meanwhile, DS Danny Maik investigates a string of arson attacks in Norfolk. When a corpse is discovered in a bird hide, Danny's investigation escalates. It appears the body links the two enquiries, but the men are unable to share information. As they attempt to unravel a twisted web of leads involving Antarctic researchers, climate scientists and billionaire philanthropists, Jejeune is forced to decide how much he is willing to sacrifice.

From the lifelong devotion of the American crow to the dalliances of the eastern bluebird, from the bald eagle’s dazzling aerial display to the male ruby-throated hummingbird’s reputation as a “deadbeat dad” — courtship, mating, and parenting differ dramatically among birds...

A one-of-a-kind guide to birding locally that encourages readers to slow down and notice the spectacular birds all around them. Many birders travel far and wide to popular birding destinations to catch sight of rare or “exotic” birds. In Slow Birding, evolutionary biologist Joan E...

"Så er den halve vinter gået, og halvdelen af brændslet til denne vinter er brugt. Lige fra de ældste tider har man sat den 25. januar, Paulusdagen, som vinterens midtpunkt. Da vender bjørnen sig i sit hi, og da skal der endnu falde lige så meget sne som før denne dag. Ganske naturligt har bonden også skævet til foderbeholdningerne på dette tidspunkt: ville de række til? Eller skulle man til at strække dem? Eller måske skille sig af med noget kreatur for at kunne fodre igennem?" Dagmar Nielsen maler en række stemningsbilleder af det traditionelle liv på landet, som hun selv har oplevet det igennem sit liv.

Immer mehr Menschen in Deutschland erfüllen sich ihren Traum und halten Wachteln - und das in der Stadt oder im eigenen Garten. Dieses Hörbuch enthält alles Wichtige rund um die Vögel und deren artgerechte Haltung - speziell für Einsteiger und interessierte Vogelhalter aufbereitet.

Sie stellen sich die Frage, wie man jeden Vogel am besten füttert - von der Meise bis zum Zaunkönig? Viele Vögel sind das ganze Jahr über vor Ort, andere fliegen während der kalten Wintermonate in den Süden. Im heimischen Garten sind sie ständig auf der Suche nach Essbarem, egal, ob im Frühling, Sommer, Herbst oder Winter, schließlich haben auch sie Hunger.

As spring arrives, Stephen Moss’ Somerset garden is awash with birdsong: chiffchaffs, wrens, robins and more. Overhead, buzzards soar, ravens tumble and the season gathers pace. But this equinox is unlike any other. As the nation goes into lockdown, Stephen records the wildlife around his home, with his fox-red Labrador, Rosie, by his side. When old routines fall away, and blue skies are no longer crisscrossed by contrails, they discover the bumblebees, butterflies and birdsong on their local patch.

Can you recognise the cheerful chirrups of the house sparrow? A song thrush singing out at winter's darkest hour? Or the beautiful, haunting call of the curlew? At a time of great anxiety and uncertainty, while coping with the untimely death of his mother, Charlie Corbett realised his perspective on life was slipping. In a moment of despair, he found himself - somewhat damp - lying on the side of a lonely hill staring up at a leaden sky, a melancholy drizzle seeping into his bones.

The surprising, rich life of tree swallows in nesting season—with Heinrich’s beautiful illustrations and photographs—by the acclaimed naturalist. Heinrich is sparked one early spring day by a question: Why does a pair of swallows in a nest-box close to his Maine cabin show an unvarying...

Author Michael Quetting shares the hilarious and moving true story of how he became a father to seven rambunctious goslings - and the surprising things he learned along the way. Starting right at the beginning, with the eggs, his journey takes him from the incubator all the way to the airstrip, where he must attempt to teach the geese to fly as part of an ambitious scientific research initiative for the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, which tracks animal migrations around the world.

William Henry Hudson was a founding member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). Though born in Argentina, Hudson came to England in 1874, where he remained until his death in 1922. Absorbed by nature, and in particular by the lives and activities of birds, his acute observations on wildlife led to some charming books which helped establish the pastime of bird watching. Birds in Town and Village is one of his classics. It is a truly engaging rumination on birds, as he watched them go about their daily lives. It is unfailingly charming, and read with an easy, relaxed tone by Neville Jason.