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Author
Publisher
Heyday
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
ix, 117 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
John Muir Laws's guide to drawing birds is itself winged, soaring between a devotion not only to art but also to the lives, forms, and postures of the birds themselves. Here, artistic technique and the exquisite details of natural history intertwine, and drawing becomes the vehicle for seeing. As Laws writes, "To draw feathers, you must understand how feathers grow, overlap, and insert into the body. To create the body, you must have an understanding...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead uses birds' eggs as wondrous portals into natural history, enlivened by the stories of naturalists and scientists, including Birkhead and his students, whose discoveries have advanced current scientific knowledge of reproduction.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains relative to their size. Although small, bird brains are packed with neurons that allow them to punch well above their weight. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance...
Author
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
127 p.: ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
This latest collaboration of Carolyn V. Platt and Gary Meszaros is a beautifully photographed book that explores Lake Erie and its effects on the birds that make this region their home. Birds of the Lake Erie Region observes a year of weather changes and avian migrations-from the wintertime convergence of ducks and other waterbirds on the lake's last ice-free areas to the excitement of the raptor and shorebird migrations in the fall. Expert or novice,...