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Birder's Conservation Handbook: 100 North American Birds at Risk by Jeffrey V. Wells Publisher Comments "This is truly a bird guide for the new millennium. Jeff Wells has given us a resource that gives us a more realistic and three-dimensional view of bird life. In this book we can see the birds as part of a bigger picture that includes their environment... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird: The Discovery and Death of the Poouli by Alvin Powell Book News Annotation A senior science writer in the Harvard University News Office, Powell believes the extinction of a species deserves more attention than a snippet to fill out short column if the day's news is a paragraph or two short. He had known and written about... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight To Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird (08 Edition) by Bruce Barcott Publisher Comments Caring for orphaned animals at her own zoo in the tropical country of Belize, Sharon Matola became one of Central America’s greatest wildlife defenders. And when powerful outside forces conspired with the local government to build a dam that would... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Spixs Macaw the Race To Save the World by Tony Juniper Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-273) and index.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Birds and Climate Change by Anders Moller Publisher Comments Temperature and other climate variables are currently changing at a dramatic rate. Birds are excellent model organisms, with a very active metabolism, they are highly sensitive to environmental changes and as highly mobile creatures they are also... (read more) Your price: $54.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird by Bruce Barcott Publisher Comments “The first time we came here I didn’t know what to expect,” she told me as we paddled upstream. “What we found just blew me away. Jaguars, pumas, river otters, howler monkeys. The place was like a Noah’s Ark for all the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hope Is the Thing With Feathers a Person by Christopher Cokinos Publisher Comments An Osprey soars across the Kansas sky. A Turkey Vulture slides lazily on the wind. But gone forever are the bright green Carolina Parakeets and five other magnificent birds, including the Labrador Duck and the famous Passenger Pigeon. Christopher... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Spix's Macaw: The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird by Tony Juniper Publisher Comments The Spix's Macaw, if it survived and recovered, could inspire the world to see what was possiblethrough cooperation and determined efforts to save the earth's natural riches.... On June 3, 1817, Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix set sail for the New World... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $2.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Where Have All the Birds Gone?: Essays on the Biology and Conservation of Birds That Migrate to the American Tropics by John Terborgh Publisher Comments "Things are going wrong with our environment," writes John Terborgh, "even the parts of it that are nominally protected. If we wait until all the answers are in, we may find ourselves in a much worse predicament than if we had taken notice of the problem... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $3.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Silence of the Songbirds by Bridget Stutchbury Publisher Comments A distinguished scientist reveals how we are losing the worlds songbirds, why this predicts widespread environmental problems, and what we can do to save the birds and their habitats. Wood thrush, bobolinks, the Eastern kingbirdmigratory songbirds are... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The hunt for the whooping cranes :a natural history detective story by J J Mccoy Publisher Comments Conservationists embark on a desperate hunt to find the last of the whooping cranes' nesting grounds.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds by Chirstopher Cokinos Publisher Comments A prizewinning poet and nature writer weaves together natural history, biology, sociology, and personal narrative to tell the story of the lives, habitats, and deaths of six extinct bird species.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $13.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Birds in Jeopardy: The Imperiled and Extinct Birds of the United States and Canada Including Hawaii and Puerto Rico by Paul Ehrlich Publisher Comments As the human population skyrockets and the toxic impact of human society spreads, the natural habitats of birds degrade and diminish and the bird populations decline. Two hundred years ago, when the United States and Canada were home to less than 5... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $3.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Return of the Whooping Crane by Robin W Doughty Book News Annotation From an all-time low of twenty-one wild birds in 1944, the whooping crane has rebounded from near-extinction. Doughty (geography, U. of Texas, Austin) charts this impressive recovery. Elegantly produced with many color photos by the author. 83/4x12".... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.13 Used - Hardcover
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Shadow & a Song: The Struggle to Save An Endangered Species by Mark Jerome Walters Publisher Comments This is the story of how the Endangered Species Act failed a small songbird, the dusky seaside sparrow. The sparrow's only habitat lay in the path of the Kennedy Space Center, not far from Disney World. Mark Walters' moving narrative describes how the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.00 Used - Hardcover
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Birds to watch 2 :the world list of threatened birds : the official source for birds on the IUCN red list by N J Collar Publisher Comments Choice. Completely revised since its first publication in 1988, Birds to Watch 2 identifies 1,200 bird species as globally threatened. For each bird, the book provides brief details on distribution, habitat requirements, population numbers, and trends.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Threatened Birds of the Americas 3RD Edition PT2 by N J Collar Publisher Comments The Smithsonian Institution Press distributes in the Americas selected books published by BirdLife Inter-national (formerly ICBP), including the BirdLife Conservation Series.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Source of the Thunder: The Biography of a California Condor by Roger Caras Book News Annotation First published in 1970 by Little, Brown. Nature writer Caras follows the flight of a condor and brings home the importance of its survival. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) Your price: $2.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds by Christopher Cokinos TOC The Carolina parakeet -- The ivory-billed woodpecker -- The heath hen -- The passenger pigeon -- The Labrador duck and the great auk.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rare birds of the world :a Collins/ICBP handbook by Guy Mountfort Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-246) and indexes.... (read more) Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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