Birds of Maine (eBook)

Charles D. Duncan, William J. Sheehan, Peter D. Vickery, Jeffrey V. Wells (Autoren)

Barbara Vickery, Scott Weidensaul (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
664 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21185-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated overview to the birds of Maine The first comprehensive overview of Maine's incredibly rich birdlife in more than seven decades, Birds of Maine is a detailed account of all 464 species recorded in the Pine Tree State. It is also a thoroughly researched, accessible portrait of a region undergoing rapid changes, with southern birds pushing north, northern birds expanding south, and once-absent natives like Atlantic Puffins brought back by innovative conservation techniques pioneered in Maine.Written by the late Peter Vickery in cooperation with a team of leading ornithologists, this guide offers a detailed look at the state's dynamic avifauna-from the Wild Turkey to the Arctic Tern-with information on migration patterns and timing, current status and changes in bird abundance and distribution, and how Maine's geography and shifting climate mold its birdlife. It delves into the conservation status for Maine's birds, as well as the state's unusually textured ornithological history, involving such famous names as John James Audubon and Theodore Roosevelt, and home-grown experts like Cordelia Stanwood and Ralph Palmer. Sidebars explore diverse topics, including the Old Sow whirlpool that draws multitudes of seabirds and the famed Monhegan Island, a mecca for migrant birds.Gorgeously illustrated with watercolors by Lars Jonsson and scores of line drawings by Barry Van Dusen, Birds of Maine is a remarkable guide that birders will rely on for decades to come.Copublished with the Nuttall Ornithological Club

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.11.2020
• Illustrationen: Barry Van Dusen, Lars Jonsson
• Zusatzinfo: 150+ b/w line drawings, color photographs, and maps. 12 watercolor plates.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Acadia National Park • American woodcock • arctic tern • Atlantic Ocean • Atlantic Puffin • AUK • Avifauna • Back Cove • bald eagle • bald eagles • Barred Owl • Baxter State Park • Bay of Fundy • Bicknell's Thrush • bird atlas • Bird Conservation • Birding • birdlife international • Bird nest • bird population • Birds of Montana • Birds of New Hampshire • Blueberry • blueberry barrens • Breeding bird survey • canada geese • canada goose • Canadian Geese • Carolina Wren • Casco Bay • Christmas Bird Count • Climate • climate change • Common eider • conservation • conservation movement • conservation status • Cooper's Hawk • cormorant • ecoregion • Egg Rock • Egret • Endangered Species • Endangered Species Act • Flyway • Gannet • George Boardman • Grasshopper sparrow • Great Auk • Great Black Hawk • great blue heron • Great Horned Owl • Green heron • guillemot • Gulf of Maine • gull • Gyrfalcon • Heath hen • Herbicide • Holarctic • House sparrow • insect • Isles of Shoals • Kennebec River • Labrador duck • loon • Louisiana Waterthrush • Machias Seal Island • Manx shearwater • Merrymeeting Bay • Mount Desert Island • Muscongus Bay • National Audubon Society • Neotropic ecozone • North America • Northern Mockingbird • northern owl irruptions • Old Sow whirlpool • Orchard Oriole • Ornithology • Pacific Ocean • Passamaquoddy Bay • Passenger pigeon • Penobscot Bay • Penobscot River • peregrine falcon • Pesticide • plumage • Population decline • Prairie Warbler • predation • Project Puffin • Puffins • razorbill • Razorbills • Red-billed tropicbird • Ruby-throated Hummingbird • ruffed grouse • Rusty blackbird • salt marsh • sandhill crane • sandpiper • Scarborough Marsh • seabird breeding islands • snowy owls, Arctic Terns • Sparrow • Spruce grouse • state wildlife • Taiga • Teddy Roosevelt • tern • threatened species • Tufted Titmouse • Turkey Vulture • United States Fish and Wildlife Service • Vesper sparrow • Virginia rail • wader • warbler • waterfowl • Western Hemisphere • western mountains • wetland • wild turkey • wild turkeys • woodpecker • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21185-X / 069121185X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21185-5 / 9780691211855