Nature Field Guides
Backyard Birds
Bird-watching is one of life's simple joys.
Seeing a colorful friend flit about your backyard brings feelings of excitement, gladness, and contentment. Stan Tekiela understands the thrill of bird-watching. The award-winning author and naturalist has been studying and photographing backyard birds for more than 25 years. Here, he guides you through the wonderful lives of the most popular, most beloved species--like the American Goldfinch, the Northern Cardinal, and the Ruby-throated Hummingbird. His incomparable photography captures the birds in action and depicts behaviors that are sure to warm and perhaps even surprise you, while the book's headings and small blocks of text make for easy yet informative browsing. Every important aspect of the birds' lives, from first flight and feeding to migration and mating, is portrayed in this gorgeous book. Your coffee table won't be complete without it.
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Bears: Black, Brown & Polar Bears
See Bears Up Close from the Comfort of Your Sofa
Professional naturalist, wildlife photographer, and author Stan Tekiela explores some of North America's most desolate areas, pursuing smart, powerful, and resourceful creatures: bears. With his instinct for being in the right place at the right time, Stan utilizes rare opportunities to capture some of the most compelling images of his career. Through this book, you can enter the world of these powerful creatures through stunning photos and personal anecdotes from Stan's journeys into the wild. Share in his travels and develop a new appreciation and respect for bears.
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BIRD BRAINIACS
Bird Brainiacs is an interactive high-engagement journal for kids 8 - 13 who love birds--one that puts discovery in their hands! Throughout the pages, kids are encouraged to write, draw, and give their opinions about anything and everything related to birds through fun (and sometimes even silly) ways. Here are some of the things you'll come across in Bird Brainiacs
Quizzes
Mad-Lib style fill-ins
Personality questionnaires
Game ideas
Would you rather? scenarios
Citizen science challenges
Nature challenges
Nature truth or dare
...and of course--bird facts and space to log their bird sightings
Bird Brainiacs combines the popularity of diaries and journals along with the important subject matter of getting kids outside and learning about birds. Kids will learn things about themselves that they never knew, and it will be documented so they can look back on it for years to come. In addition, they will learn interesting facts and tidbits about the great outdoors.
35% of the net proceeds from every Cornell Lab Publishing Group book purchase will support projects such as children's educational and community programs.
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Collector's Guide to Minerals of New York State
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COMMON MOSSES OF THE NORTHEAST AND APPAL
A comprehensive guide to the mosses of the Northeast and Appalachians
This is the first book to help general readers recognize 200 common mosses of the Northeast and the Appalachian Mountains. With just this field guide, a hand lens, and a spray bottle--no microscopes necessary--readers will be able to identify and name many of the common species of mosses growing in the region's backyards, parks, forests, wetlands, and mountains. At the heart of this guide is an innovative, color-tabbed system that helps readers pick out small groups of similar species. Illustrated identification keys, colorful habitat and leaf photos, more than 600 detailed line drawings, and written descriptions help differentiate the species. This accessible book allows all nature enthusiasts to make accurate identifications and gain access to the enchanting world of mosses.- Please log in to review this product
CROSSLEY ID GUIDE: EASTERN BIRDS
A revolution in birding and field guides
This stunningly illustrated book from acclaimed birder and photographer Richard Crossley revolutionizes field guide design by providing the first real-life approach to identification. Whether you are a beginner, expert, or anywhere in between, The Crossley ID Guide will vastly improve your ability to identify birds. Unlike other guides, which provide isolated individual photographs or illustrations, this is the first book to feature large, lifelike scenes for each species. These scenes--640 in all--are composed from more than 10,000 of the author's images showing birds in a wide range of views--near and far, from different angles, in various plumages and behaviors, including flight, and in the habitat in which they live. These beautiful compositions show how a bird's appearance changes with distance, and give equal emphasis to characteristics experts use to identify birds: size, structure and shape, behavior, probability, and color. This is the first book to convey all of these features visually--in a single image--and to reinforce them with accurate, concise text. Each scene provides a wealth of detailed visual information that invites and rewards careful study, but the most important identification features can be grasped instantly by anyone. By making identification easier, more accurate, and more fun than ever before, The Crossley ID Guide will completely redefine how its users look at birds. Essential for all birders, it also promises to make new birders of many people who have despaired of using traditional guides.- Please log in to review this product
FERN FINDER (P)
Easily Identify the Ferns You Find!
Enjoy learning to identify ferns with this guide from authors Anne Hallowell and Barbara Hallowell. With this handy, easy-to-use book, you'll be able to identify a wide variety of ferns in no time. And its small size makes it just right for fitting into your pocket or pack when you go for a hike or a walk in the woods.
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FGT BIRDS EASTERN N. AMER (SIBLEY 2ED)
Compact and comprehensive, this guide features 650 bird species, plus regional populations, found east of the Rocky Mountains. Entries include stunningly accurate illustrations--more than 4,600 in total--with descriptive captions pointing out the most important field marks. Each entry has been updated to include the most current information concerning frequency, nesting, behavior, food and feeding, voice description, and key identification features. Here too are more than 600 updated maps drawn from information contributed by 110 regional experts across the continent, and showing winter, summer, year-round, migration, and rare ranges. This new and improved edition includes: - Updated habitat, description, behavior, and conservation text for each species account and all family pages. - New and revised illustrations of species and regional forms. - New design featuring species accounts in columns, allowing for better comparison and more illustrations and text. - Current taxonomic order and up-to-date common names. - All maps revised to reflect the most current range information. - More species and rarities included.
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Mushrooms of the Northeast
Begin to Identify Mushrooms with this Great Visual Guide for the Northeastern United States!
Mushrooming is a popular and rewarding pastime--and it's one that you can enjoy with the right information at hand. Mushrooms of the Northeast is the field guide to get you started. The region-specific book utilizes an innovative, user-friendly format that can help you identify mushrooms by their visual characteristics. Hundreds of full-color photographs are paired with easy-to-understand text, providing the details to give you confidence in the field. The information, written by foraging experts Teresa Marrone and Walt Sturgeon, is accessible to beginners but useful for even experienced mushroom seekers.
Learn about more than 400 species of common wild mushrooms found in the Northeast states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The species (from Morel Mushrooms to Shelf Mushrooms) are organized by shape, then by color, so you can identify them by their visual characteristics. Plus, with the Top Edibles and Top Toxics sections, you'll begin to learn which are the edible wild mushrooms and which to avoid.
Get this field guide, jam-packed with information, and start identifying the mushrooms you find.
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New York Rocks & Minerals
Get this must-have guide for New York, featuring full-color photographs and information to help you identify rocks and minerals.
Identify and collect rocks and minerals with the perfect guide to the Empire State! With this famous field guide by Dan R. Lynch and Bob Lynch, field identification is simple and informative. The book features comprehensive entries for 105 rocks and minerals, from common rocks to rare finds. That means you're more likely to identify what you've found. The authors know rocks and took their own full-color photographs to depict the detail needed for identification--no more guessing from line drawings. The field guide's easy-to-use format helps you to quickly find what you need to know and where to look.
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New York Rocks & Minerals includes beautiful photography, relevant information, and the authors' expert insights. With this book in hand, identifying and collecting is fun and informative!
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