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Ghost Birds
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Stephen Lyn Bales |
In 1935 naturalist James T. Tanner was a twenty-one-year-old graduate student when he saw his first ivory-billed woodpecker, one of America’s rarest birds, in a remote swamp in northern Louisiana. At… |
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John James Audubon
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Joseph Kastner |
Examines the noted artist whose passion for American birds dominated his life and his work. |
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Audubon
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Jos. A. Smith,Jennifer L. Armstrong |
Briefly tells the story of this nineteenth-century painter and naturalist who is most famous for his detailed paintings of birds. |
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The feathery tribe
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Daniel Lewis |
This biography of Robert Ridgway describes how the study of the natural sciences after Charles Darwin dramatically changed. The role of authority, language and publication all changed. At the zenith … |
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Birds in the bushes
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Julie Dunlap |
Relates the life of the ornithologist whose finest work took place in her back yard and whose final hope was that others would share her love of nature study. |
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John James Audubon
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Jan Gleiter |
Presents that part of Audubon's life when he sailed down the Mississippi on a flatboat, along with his assistant Joseph Mason sketching birds along the way. |
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Bourbon Island 1730
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Trondheim, Lewis,Appollodorus, Olivier |
On Bourbon Island off the coast of Madagascar, a French ornithologist and his assistant are caught up in an adventure involving slavery, colonialism, and the last days of the great pirates. |
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Who is Martha?
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Marjana Gaponenko |
"96-year-old ornithologist Luka Levadski foregoes treatment for lung cancer and moves from Ukraine to Vienna to make a grand exit in a luxury suite at the Hotel Imperial. He reflects on his past whil… |
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Laws of migration
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Suzanne Frank |
Birds, especially the ibis, have always fascinated Elize--that's why she became an ornithologist. But when her boss at the private Texas coastal institute where she's spent her career gives away her … |
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John James Audubon
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Martha E Kendall |
Traces the life of John James Audubon from his early childhood in France to his career in America and his eventual success as an artist and naturalist. |
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A guide to the birds of East Africa
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Nicholas Drayson |
Reserved, honourable Mr Malik. You wouldn't notice him in a Nairobi street – except, perhaps, to comment on his carefully sculpted comb-over – but beneath his unprepossessing exterior lie a warm hear… |
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John James Audubon
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Margaret Ford Kieran |
A biography of the naturalist and artist who was one of the first persons to study and paint the birds of the United States. |
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A Bundle of Feathers. Proffered to Salim Ali for His Seventy-Fifth Birthday
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Sidney Dillion, II Ripley |
Festschrift honoring the Indian ornithologist Salim A. Ali, b.1896. |
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