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Fifty Places to Go Birding before You Die: Birding Experts Share the World's Geatest Destinations
by Chris Santella and Bill Thompson  Publisher Comments It's estimated that 50 to 60 million Americans count birding among their hobbies. Some hang feeders in their backyards and accumulate yard lists; others participate in annual "Christmas Counts"; a select few travel to the ends of the earth in an effort...
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Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds
by Sam Keen Synopsis Sam Keen, the "New York Times" best-selling author of "Fire in the Belly," has spent a lifetime reflecting on nature. In "Sightings," a collection of essays, bird watching forms the basis for observations spiritual and soulful, witty and wise. He...
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Finding Your Wings: A Workbook for Beginning Bird Watchers (Peterson Field Guides)
by Burton Guttman Publisher Comments A Workbook for Beginning Bird Watchers No other book for beginning bird watchers involves the reader so actively in the exciting first steps of learning to watch birds. This workbook is filled with quizzes and exercises that prepare the reader for going...
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The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife
by Christopher W Leahy Publisher Comments The quintessential A-Z guide, this is a book that anyone interested in birds will want to have close at hand. First published more than twenty years ago, this highly respected reference volume has been fully revised and updated. It captures the...
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The Big Twitch: One Man, One Continent, a Race Against Time--A True Story about Birdwatching
by Sean Dooley Publisher Comments As a self-proclaimed twitcher—a birdwatching extremist who travels around the country trying to catch a glimpse of as many species of birds as possible—the author took a year off in 2002 with the goal of seeing 700 birds and thereby...
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The Stokes Purple Martin Book: The Complete Guide to Attracting and Housing Purple Martins
by Donald W Stokes Synopsis Copiously illustrated with maps, line drawings, and full-color photographs, each of these large-format (8 1/2 x 10 7/8) paperback books contains the essential information that backyard nature enthusiasts want and need -- to attract, identify, and...
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National Geographic Birding Essentials: All the Tools, Techniques, and Tips You Need to Begin and Become a Better Birder
by Jonathan Alderfer Publisher Comments Birding is the fastest growing wildlife-related outdoor activity in the U.S., with at least a million new birders a year estimated to join an already robust group some 80 million strong. For these beginning and intermediate enthusiasts, National...
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The Hummingbird Book: The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Enjoying Hummingbirds
by Don Stokes Synopsis Copiously illustrated with maps, line drawings, and full-color photographs, each of these large-format (8 1/2 x 10 7/8) paperback books contains the essential information that backyard nature enthusiasts want and need -- to attract, identify, and...
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Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding
by Scott Weidensaul Publisher Comments F rom the moment Europeans arrived in North America, they were awestruck by a continent awash with birds—great flocks of wild pigeons, prairies teeming with grouse, woodlands alive with brilliantly colored songbirds. Of a Feather traces the...
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The Chronicle of Muntaner (Volume 2)
by Ramon Muntaner and Lady Goodenough Synopsis In this book, Burt L. Monroe, Jr., and Charles G. Sibley provide a checklist of 9,702 species of birds based on their 1990 book, Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World and the 1993 Supplement. The classification is that of Sibley, Ahlquist, and...
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How To Be a Birdwatcher (05 Edition)
by Simon Barnes 
Publisher Comments Look out the window. See a bird. Enjoy it. CONGRATULATIONS! You are now a bad birdwatcher. Inthis refreshingly irreverent introduction to the subject, Simon Barnes makes birdwatching simple—and above all, enjoyable. Anyone who has ever looked up at...
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Orvis Beginner's Guide to Birdwatching (Orvis Guides)
by Alicia King Publisher Comments This book provides answers to the most-often asked questions ranging from what to wear to where to go and how to make the best use of your binoculars, field guide, and backyard birdfeeder. Bird watching, or birding to enthusiasts, is something anyone can...
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The Birdwatcher's Companion: Winged Wonders, Fantastic Flocks & Outstanding Ornithology (Companion)
by Malcolm Tait Publisher Comments From the serious (why vultures are dying out in Asia) and the informative (why waxwings have waxy wings) to the bizarre (the parrot that can read minds), The Birdwatcher’s Companion is a veritable aviary of notes, quotes, and facts, as well as some...
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All Things Reconsidered: My Birding Adventures
by Roger Peterson Publisher Comments Roger Tory Peterson's unique perspective on birding comes to life in these highly personal narratives. Here he relates his adventures during a lifetime of birding and traveling the world to observe and record nature. Though Peterson was widely known for...
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All Things Reconsidered: My Birding Adventures
by Roger Tory Peterson Publisher Comments Ten years after Roger Tory Peterson's death, his unique perspective on birding comes to life in these highly personal narratives. Here he relates his adventures during a lifetime of birding and traveling the world to observe and record nature. Whether it...
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Birder's Companion
by Stephen Moss Publisher Comments Answers to 450 common (and uncommon) questions about birds. The Fitness Instructor's Handbook is the essential guidebook for professionals working in or interested in entering the booming fitness industry. Filled cover-to-cover with case studies...
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The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
by Mark Obmascik
Publisher Comments Every January 1, a quirky crowd storms out across North America for a spectacularly competitive event called a Big Year -- a grand, expensive, and occasionally vicious 365-day marathon of birdwatching. For three men in particular, 1998 would become a...
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Birders: Tales of a Tribe
by Mark Cocker Publisher Comments For thirty years, journalist Mark Cocker has been a member of a community of fanatics who sacrifice most of their spare time, a good deal of money, sometimes their chances of a partner or family, even their lives, to watch birds. In Birders, Cocker not...
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To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession
by Dan Koeppel Publisher Comments What drives a man to travel to sixty countries and spend a fortune to count birds? And what if that man is your father? Richard Koeppels obsession began at age twelve, in Queens, New York, when he first spotted a Brown Thrasher, and jotted the sighting...
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National Geographic Birder's Journal
by National Geographic Publisher Comments This durable journal is a must for birders of all skill levels, from novices just beginning to build a life list to veterans looking for the most up-to-date, systematic, and visually complete way to document sightings of even the rarest, most elusive...
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