A delightful pocket-sized guide on how attract birds to the yard with baths, tables, feeders, and nest boxes comes complete with a photographic directory of seventy-nine North American species and their behavior patterns, and tips on how to care for an injured bird. Original.

Product Description: An entertaining comedy replete with philosophy, alchemy, politics, and human nature from the author of the popular work: The Anatomy of Melancholy. Contents: Chronological Table; Philosophaster (original Latin with an English translation) Notes to Philosophaster; Facsimile of Burton's Autograph; Burton's Preface to Rider's Dictionarie; Burton's Poemata; Robert Burton's Will; Wood's Account of Burton...read more

A guide to creating a bird-friendly environment, with tips on feeders, nestboxes, birdbaths, recipes, and bird identification

Product Description: This is the third and final text volume of the Clarendon edition of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. It contains "The Third Partition," "The Table," edited from 1624-1651 editions, textual apparatus, and an Index of Persons...read more

Surveys methods used to study bird migration and explores navigation, fuel economy, migration hazards, wintering areas, and return to breeding grounds

Product Description: An entertaining comedy replete with philosophy, alchemy, politics, and human nature from the author of the popular work: The Anatomy of Melancholy. Contents: Chronological Table; Philosophaster (original Latin with an English translation) Notes to Philosophaster; Facsimile of Burton's Autograph; Burton's Preface to Rider's Dictionarie; Burton's Poemata; Robert Burton's Will; Wood's Account of Burton...read more

Photographic portraits and descriptions of eighty commonly observed North American birds complement a detailed guide to creating a bird-friendly environment, with tips on feeders, nestboxes, birdbaths, recipes, and bird identification.

Product Description: Accessible to the general reader, this volume in the Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Geography series explores the great variety of animal life--from invertebrates to mammals--that inhabit the Earth. A 32-page introductory section treats the subject on a global scale, with discussions of the history and structure of the animal world, varieties of animal life, habitats, adaptation, and behavior; animals under threat from loss of habitat, pollution, and active destruction by humans; and efforts to save animal populations through research, protection, and conservation...read more

Introduces such Arctic creatures as the caribou, ptarmigan, polar bear, and seal, and describes how they find food as well as shelter from their enemies and from the Arctic climate

Explains how animals adjust to life in cities and towns, and looks at mice, raccoons, bats, rats, badgers, foxes, hedgehogs, cardinals, swallows, sparrows, starlings, and frogs

Describes a variety of desert-dwellers and how they cope with the harsh conditions of desert life, including camels, gemsbok, various rodents, bandicoots, reptiles and amphibians, burrowing owls, and cactus wrens

Describes the ecology of tide pools, and describes the animals found near the shore, including crabs, lugworms, seagulls, starfish, harbor seals, prawns, shrimp, barnacles, turtles, and marine iguanas

Details the experience of birds in flight by examining the mechanics and other aspects of flight depending on the type of bird and its habitat, and also captions full color illustrations showing birds in action

An introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, natural environment, and relationship to human beings of the owl

Text and photographs depict mice feeding, breeding, and interacting with other animals in their natural habitat

Looks at the evolution of the egg, explains how eggs are formed, fertilized, and hatched, and discusses nests, parental care, and live births

Discusses the lifecycle of plants and animals, explains different forms of reproduction, and reviews the theory of evolution

A single-volume reference for young readers

A leading British bird expert's detailed survey of bird behavior in the wild is enhanced by nearly seven hundred full-color photographs, nearly all specially commissioned, of key aspects of bird behavior