The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats is a comprehensive guide to identifying the tracks and scats of all trackable animals of the United States and Canada. With ample use of photographs and line drawings, Len McDougall—an adroit tracker and an …
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The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats is a comprehensive guide to identifying the tracks and scats of all trackable animals of the United States and Canada. With ample use of photographs and line drawings, Len McDougall—an adroit tracker and an …
The book is ideal for families and schools and will have children riveted with its full color photographs and dangerous details of Australia's most venomous animals.
Field Guide to Tracking Animals in Snow
'This is a first-class book. If you are interested in wildlife and the outdoors, you will find it an essential addition to your natural-history library. The author's knowledge and enthusiasm come right through, and the illustrator's work greatly …
One of North America's best recognized species is explored in-depth in this beautifully illustrated book. More than 150 color photos, many of them rare pictures, depict the bird in its natural habitat. Wild Bird Guides.
Hand-Feeding and Raising Baby Birds: Breeding, Hand-Feeding, Care, and Management
This book is for both amateur bird owners and professional breeders. It offers instructions on maintaining a bird nursery, keeping it heated and sanitary, and tending the chicks. Differing feed formulas are given for different species, including …
The centerpiece of the book is a thoroughly researched status and distribution chart, 46 pages long, that tells which birds occur and how frequently in each of the state's ten birding regions. Such data has never been offered along regional lines …
Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains, 2nd
Winner of the 1999 National Outdoor Books Award! See those animal signs on the trail? Was that footprint left by a fox or a wolf? Was that pile of droppings deposited by a moose, a mouse, or a marten? Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains will …
The complete natural history of this popular species, told in straightforward text and illustrated with brilliant color photographs. The Great Horned Owl is a year-round resident over much of the United States and Canada, from dense forests to …
Birds of Lake, Pond, and Marsh: Water and Wetland Birds of Eastern North America
Describing how 39 common water and wetland birds of eastern North America nest, mate, and rear their broods, this book takes a seasonal approach to bird study and is an appealing guide for birders of any skill level. 72 illustrations.
Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance
Of all the animals in North America, none commands as much respect, interest, awe, and fear as the bear. Endowed by nature with incredible size, speed, intelligence, and power, bears in the 21st century now compete for survival with the only …
Where the Grizzly Walks: The Future of the Great Bear
Admired for its majesty and often feared for its strength, speed, and supposed aggressiveness, the grizzly bear was once unchallenged as the great apex predator of the American West. By the 1970s, however, hunting and habitat loss had reduced its …
For over thirty years, Dr. Leonard Lee Rue III's The Deer of North America has been the definitive book on the life and habits of the four deer species of North America-mule, whitetail, blacktail, and Sitka. Dr. Leonard Lee Rue III, one of …
As an exhaustively researched and clearly written guide to more than 100 birding adventures across the state, wildlife ecologist and author D.E. McIvor uses habitat as a base on which to share his years of birding experiences. Each site …
Bird Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species
This richly illustrated full-color guide — the first of its kind for North American birds — offers clear, thorough instruction for identifying bird families or individual species by their unique sign.
Cranes the Noblest Flyers: In Natural History & Cultural Lore
Alice Lindsay Price, a devoted naturalist, has for the past twenty years joined the scientific pursuit of avian scholarship to her lifelong passions of painting, writing, and literature. In her new work, "CranesThe Noblest Flyers," she brings …
These pocket-sized Nature Study Guides describe plants and animals in easy-to-understand language. They include drawings, keys, terms, symbols, and glossaries. Each book covers a specific region.
Death in the Grizzly Maze: The Timothy Treadwell Story
On the afternoon of Sunday, October 5, 2003, in Alaska's Katmai National Park, one or more brown bears killed and ate Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard. The next day, park rangers investigating the site shot and killed two …
Every aspect of a species's life in the wild — courtship, nesting, brooding, communication, foraging, flying, fighting — is covered in text by a leading ornithologist and photos by top nature photographers.
Scats and Tracks of the Northeast
See those animal signs on the trail? Was that footprint left by a dog or a wolf? Was that pile of droppings deposited by a skunk or a mountain lion? Scats and Tracks of the Northeast will help you determine which mammals, birds, reptiles, and …
Birds add an immeasurable element of life, movement and colour to your garden, and this delightful book of more than 35 recipes provides the ideal way of not only tempting them to pay a visit but also ensuring that they stay healthy all year …
Steve Braunias writes: 'When a black-backed gull flew past the balcony of my girlfriend's apartment in downtown Auckland on a sultry evening last summer, it came so close to where I was standing, so suddenly and dazzlingly, a white flash against …
Seen and Unseen: Discovering the Microbes of Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park is one of the world's truly extraordinary places. Its landscape, dominated by a great volcanic crater and sculpted over millennia by water and glacial ice, is host to a dramatically complex and diverse environment …
North Carolina has one of the richest arrays of birdlife in North America-460 species, including two of the rarest species in the Southeast: the Red-cockaded Woodpecker and the Wood Stork. Birding North Carolina guides you to forty-four of the …
Scats and Tracks of the Desert Southwest
Whether you're on the lookout for a kit fox, or trying to steer clear of a bear, Scats and Tracks of the Desert Southwest, by nationally reknown tracker and author Dr. James Halfpenny, helps you recognize what critters went before you and is a …
Captive Wild: One Woman's Adventure Living with Wolves
After photographing the wildlife of the Arctic, the assignment which led to the creation of Arctic Wild, Herb and Lois Crisler decided to bring home the five orphaned tundra wolf cubs they had reared. In remote Crag Cabin, their home near Lake …
Scats and Tracks of the Southeast: A Field Guide to the Signs of Seventy Wildlife Species
See those animal signs on the trail? Was that footprint left by a dog or a coyote? Was that pile of droppings deposited by a bobcat or an armadillo? Scats and Tracks of the Southeast will help you determine which mammals, birds, reptiles, and …
Exploring the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail: Highlights of a Birding Mecca
From the Piney Woods of eastern Texas to the Rio Grande Valley bordering Mexico - a distance of more than 400 milesthe Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail links 300-plus sites and offers birdwatchers access to such avian spectacles as Red-cockaded …
Northern California has recorded a total of 559 birds. Only two entire states have recorded more - Texas (606) and all of California (601). This book leads you to 81 prime birding areas, with 294 individual sites and 102 maps. Seasonal bar graphs …
Washington State's diverse natural habitats offer resident and visiting birders opportunities to see more than 480 bird species. From the Sitka spruce forests and the Olympic Peninsula's rocky coast to the subalpine habitats of the Cascade …
Bear Attacks of the Century: True Stories of Courage and Survival
Unflinching accounts of human and ursine encounters. Do bear attacks touch people in the far-back recesses of their psyches? Reach latent ancestral memories of cave days when humans were potential prey? Indeed, there are those who say their …