Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Wonders of egrets, bitterns, and herons	Wyatt Blassingame	Describes thirteen North American species of long-legged and long-necked migratory wading birds, including the great egret, American bittern, and Louisiana heron.	OL1398181W
Flying blind	Anna Myers	Ben Riley and Murphy, the pet macaw, know the killing of egrets for their feathers must be stopped, but the lines between right and wrong become blurred when Ben meets two orphans who rely on feather…	OL14854135W
Playing by the rules	Mary Packard	Spike the alligator and Mike the snowy egret are so eager to show two visiting jays what a great place Cypress Swamp is that they do things that they know they shouldn't.	OL15125990W
Save the swamp	Mary Packard	When the Otter family has to move because the water in Cypress Glade is too dirty to live in, Spike the alligator, Mike the snowy egret, and the other animals decide to clean things up.	OL15126004W
Death in the Everglades	Stuart B. McIver	Tells the story of Guy Bradley, a reformed plume hunter in the frontier town of Flamingo, who was hired in 1902 as game warden of Monroe County and three years later was killed while trying to enforc…	OL15835698W
The next fine day	Elizabeth Yates	"Each spring for hundreds of years, the herons have returned to Chilham, England, but only now have they become important to Kent. Their departure this fall marks the beginning of a new life for his …	OL18425W
Great blue herons	Bill Ivy	Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and habitats of the great blue heron.	OL24267912W
The interrupted education of Huey B	Nancy J. Hopper	Huey, in danger of failing senior English because he is monitoring the herons at a reservoir instead of attending class, further complicates his life by simultaneously dating two girls.	OL2698760W
Herons	Rachel A. Koestler-Grack	"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to herons. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--	OL27302876W
Safe and sound	Mary Packard	While looking for some flowers for his friend's birthday party, Mike the snowy egret gets caught in some plastic trash that had been thrown into Mulberry Marsh.	OL28452W
Starting over	Mary Packard	Spike the alligator and Mike the snowy egret help two quetzals whose forest home in Central America was destroyed.	OL28454W
Floramel and Esteban	Emilie Buchwald	A lonely cow and a lazy cattle egret form a convenient partnership which soon evolves into something quite special.	OL3920357W
The ibis and the egret	Roy Owen	The ibis and the egret celebrate each of the four seasons by finding things they like about it.	OL3957327W
Snowy; the story of an egret	Griffing Bancroft	A young snowy egret struggles to survive in an increasingly hostile environment.	OL3971493W
Discovering the mysterious egret	Jack Denton Scott	Describes what limited information is known about the habits of the enigmatic cattle egret which has migrated to every continent from its native Africa.	OL4973295W
The old bullfrog	Berniece Freschet	A wise old bullfrog, observing the quiet activity of a beautiful summer day, does not see the frog-eating heron until it is almost too late.	OL5095536W
Grandad's fishing buddy	Mary Quigley	A young girl and her grandfather go fishing and meet up with the heron that always helps him find fish.	OL5820837W
Herons, egrets and bitterns	Neil McKilligan	This is the first book to deal exclusively with the Australian members of the Family Ardeidae. It is an easy-to-read account of their origins, classification and biology, and explains the features th…	OL5875945W
T-boy of the bayou	Wayne T. McGaw	A heron overhears a boy's wish that he could help his father, a shrimper whose nets have been empty lately, and shows him what needs to be done to make things right.	OL6209157W
A white heron	Sarah Orne Jewett	A nine-year-old New England girl has to decide whether or not she will help the ornithologist who is searching for the rare white heron.	OL67230W