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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...
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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....
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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...
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Dodo
by Errol Fuller Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-178) and index....
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Silence of the Songbirds: How We Are Losing the World's Songbirds and What We Can Do to Save Them
by Bridget Stutchbury 
Publisher Comments Wood thrush, Kentucky warbler, the Eastern kingbird: migratory songbirds are disappearing at a frightening rate. By some estimates, we may already have lost almost half of the songbirds that filled the skies only forty years ago. Renowned biologist...
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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...."<P>On June 3, 1817, Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix set sail for the...
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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...
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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....
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Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet
by Maria Mudd Ruth Publisher Comments Part naturalist detective story, part environmental inquiry, this vibrant narrative celebrates the fascinating world of an endangered seabird that depends on the contested old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest for its survival. "This chunky little...
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Partridges, Quails, Francolins, Snowcocks, Guineafowl, and Turkeys
by Not Available (na) Publisher Comments These species, a group of about 150 ground-dwelling gamebird, are found on every continent apart from Antarctica. They live in a wide variety of habitats from tropical forests, high-altitude alpine zones, temperate forests, open country, to desert...
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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"....
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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...
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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....
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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)...
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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....
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Priority Areas for Threatened Birds in the Neotropics
by D C Wege
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The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird: The Discovery and Death of the Poouli
by Alvin Powell
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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....
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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....
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Monograph of Endangered Parrots
by Tony Silva Description Oiseaux Protection....
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