Armchair Birder's Omnibus Ebook (eBook)

Includes The Armchair Birder and The Armchair Birder Goes Coastal

John Yow (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012 | Omnibus E-book
520 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-1001-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Available for the first time together in this Omnibus E-Book, The Armchair Birder's Omnibus brings together both of John Yow's delightful books into one convenient e-book.While birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic locales, John Yow reminds us in The Armchair Birder, that the most fascinating birds can be the ones perched right outside our windows. In thirty-five engaging and sometimes irreverent vignettes, Yow reveals the fascinating lives of the birds we see nearly every day. Following the seasons, he covers forty-two species, discussing the improbable, unusual, and comical aspects of his subjects' lives. Yow offers his own observations, anecdotes, and stories as well as those of America's classic bird writers, such as John James Audubon, Arthur Bent, and Edward Forbush. This unique addition to bird literature combines the fascination of bird life with the pleasure of good reading.In his follow-up volume The Armchair Birder Goes Coastal, Yow now journeys to the shore and shares his encounters with some of the most familiar and beloved coastal birds. Out of his travels--from North Carolina's Outer Banks, down the Atlantic coast, and westward along the Gulf of Mexico--come colorful accounts of twenty-eight species, from ubiquitous beach birds like sanderlings and laughing gulls to wonders of nature like roseate spoonbills and the American avocets. Along the way, Yow delves deeply into the birds' habits and behaviors, experiencing and relating the fascination that leads many an amateur naturalist to become the most unusual of species--a birder.

Autor

John Yow is a freelance writer based in Acworth, Georgia, and former senior editor at Longstreet Press.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2012
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: American Goldfinch • Anastasia State Park, St. Augustine, Florida birds • Arthur Cleveland Bent • Atlantic coast birding • audubon society • bald eagle • Barred Owl • Belted Kingfisher • Bird behavior • bird books • bird breeding grounds • bird feeders • Birding books • bird names • bird nests • Birds of North America Online • Birdwatcher books • Birdwatching books • blue jay • Bobwhite • books for birders • Brown-headed Cowbird • canada goose • Carolina Wren • Carrabelle Beach, Florida birds • Cedar Key, Florida birds • Cedar Waxwing • chickadee • Chicken Hawks • Chimney Swift • Chuck-will's-widow • Coastal birds • Common Crow • Confusing Fall Warblers • Cooper's Hawk • Cornell Lab of Ornithology • Dauphin Island, Alabama birds • “Ding” Darling NWR, Florida birds • Eastern Bluebird • Eastern Phoebe • Eastern Robin • Edward Howe Forbush • Goatsuckers • great blue heron • Great Horned Owl • Gulf coast birding • Harris Neck NWR, Georgia birds • Jekyll Island, Georgia birds • John James Audubon • Life Histories of North American Birds • Life Histories of North American Birds/ Arthur Cleveland Bent • Little St. Simons Island, Georgia birds • Loud Owls • Merritt Island NWR, Florida birds • Migratory Birds • Mourning Dove • Natural History • Nature writing • Northern Cardinal • Northern Mockingbird • omnibus ebook • Ornithological Biography • Ornithology • Osprey • Outer Banks, North Carolina birds • Pea Island NWR, North Carolina birds • Peter Matthiessen • Pileated Woodpecker • Rachel Carson • Red-bellied Woodpecker • Red-headed Woodpecker • Redheads • Red-tailed Hawk • Rose-breasted Grosbeak • Ruby-throated Hummingbird • sandhill crane • Sanibel Island, Florida birds • Scarlet and Summer Tanager • Scott Weidensaul • shorebirds • St. Augustine, Florida birds • St. Catherine’s Island, Georgia birds • St. Mark’s NWR, Florida birds • St. Simons Island, Georgia birds • The Shorebirds of North America • The Titmouse Family • Thomas Burleigh • Titusville, Florida birds • Tufted Titmouse • Turkey Vulture • wading birds • Whip-poor-will • White breasted Nuthatch • wild turkey • wood thrush • Yellow-billed Cuckoo
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-1001-9 / 1469610019
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-1001-6 / 9781469610016