On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl -- a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet's ability to fly was forever compromised, and he had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild. O'Brien, a young assistant in the owl laboratory at Caltech, was immediately smitten, promising to ...

Manufacturer: Free Press
Written By: Stacey O'Brien

Drawing from the collection of the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Bird Songs presents the most notable North American birds including the rediscovered Ivory-billed Woodpecker in a stunning new format. Renowned bird biologist Les Beletsky provides a succinct description of each of the 250 birds profiled, with an emphasis on their distinctive songs. Lavish ...

Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
Written By: Les Beletsky

Product Description Get ready for the most groundbreaking entry to date in the bestselling Birdsongs series (more than 400,000 copies sold!). Birdscapes delivers an immersive birding experience never before seen--or heard--in any book. For the eyes: seven elaborately engineered full-color pop-ups portraying dozens of bird species in diverse North ...

Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
Written By: Miyoko Chu, Cornell Lab of Omithology

A daily reminder of the Audubon mission to celebrate the earth's natural beauty—this week-at-a-glance datebook is a treasure. Here is unspoiled nature in dozens of spellbinding images—from panoramic landscapes to intimate moments, such as a butterfly alighting on a flower bud. A spider's web, glittering with beads of dew. Hyacinth Macaws perched on a tree branch. A meadow flushed with deep-red ...

Manufacturer: Artisan
Written By: National Audubon Society

Product Description In celebration of the centennial of Roger Tory Peterson's birth comes a historic collaboration among renowned birding experts and artists to preserve and enhance the Peterson legacy. This new book combines the Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Birds and Peterson Field Guide to Western Birds into one volume, filled with accessible, concise information ...

Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Co
Written By: Roger Tory Peterson

Birding is the fastest growing wildlife-related activity in the U.S., and even conservative estimates put the current number of U.S. birders at 50 million. According to the New York Times, some authorities predict that by 2050 there will be more than 100 million—and the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America will be the essential reference for field ...

Manufacturer: National Geographic
Written By: Jon L. Dunn, Jonathan Alderfer

Building on the tremendous success of Bird Songs (250,000 copies sold), The Backyard Birdsong Guides are regional, interactive handbooks of birds and their songs for beginning bird-watchers. With a touch-button electronic module housing common vocalizations of 75 species from across Eastern and Central North America, this volume offers a truly sensory way to identify and get to ...

Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
Written By: Donald Kroodsma

It was an epiphany: The moment two friends showed Luke Dempsey a small bird flitting around the bushes of his country garden, he fell madly in love. But did he really want to be a birder? Didn’t that mean he’d be forced to eat granola? And wear a man-pouch? Before he knew it, though, he was lost to birding mania. Early mornings in Central Park gave way to weekend mornings wandering around ...

Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA
Written By: Luke Dempsey

Can a parrot understand complex concepts and mean what it says? Since the early 1900s, most studies on animal-human communication have focused on great apes and a few cetacean species. Birds were rarely used in similar studies on the grounds that they were merely talented mimics--that they were, after all, "birdbrains." Experiments performed primarily on pigeons in Skinner boxes demonstrated ...

Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Written By: Irene Maxine Pepperberg

HOW DO PENGUINS survive in frigid conditions? What happens at a research station in Antarctica? How long can an emperor penguin go without food? What other creatures live in the Antarctic? Find out the answers to these questions and more in the Magic Tree House Research Guide: Penguins and Antarctica.

Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers
Written By: Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce