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Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"To some, he was "Professor Nuts Peterson," but to the world he was Roger Tory Peterson. For the birds: the life of Roger Tory Peterson tracks this American artist, activist, and passionate bird lover from his days as a child, to art student, to creator of the Peterson Field Guides, to global environmentalist. Peterson's guides were revolutionary--simply written and drawn for everyone to enjoy the birds, animals, and plants of the outdoors. Millions...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It's time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind." With inspiring prose, thorough research, and stirring images, Hoose explores the tragedy of extinction through the triumph of a single bird.
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2013.
Description
"From the editor of the nation's premier birding magazine, a no-nonsense, no-fluff quick guide to the birds you see every day. Of all the classic American pastimes, perhaps none is as widely accessible as watching birds. Our unusually vast, diverse environmental landscape supports fascinating species and variations exclusive to each region of the country. But while birders often spend their efforts in search of the rarest creatures, some of the most...
6) How to bird
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Pub. Date
[2024].
Description
"How to Bird is a culturally relevant, lyrical, succinct, and direct procedural text. Images and words on each page invite readers to try a new birding strategy, right then and there. How to Bird is a mentor text for educators teaching procedural writing.Additionally, a growing body of scientific evidence indicates that seeing and hearing birds makes people happier. How to Bird supports readers' social and emotional well-being by introducing birding...
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In an attempt to escape hellish matrimony, Rachel Stanhope sojourns to her Aunt Miriam's ranch in Colorado in search of some peace and comfort. As a favor to her aunt, a bird enthusiast, Rachel agrees to host meetings of the local birdwatching society. On her first expedition, however, instead of finding a LeConte's sparrow, she makes a much more disturbing discovery: a dead body. Identified as a reporter for Birds of a Feather magazine, this man...
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
This A-to-Z guide includes terrific tips for building bird feeders, birdbaths, and birdhouses. It includes recipes for making bird food, the 25 best plants to grow in your yard-including columbine and honeysuckle, and how to identify and attract more than 50 different kinds of birds to your yard.
10) Snapper
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Working as a birdwatching guide to scrape together enough money to survive, Nathan Lochmueller performs nature research in backwater Indiana, where he falls in love with a heartbreaking free spirit named Lola and confronts the accidental turns of his life.
11) Birding
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Describes many aspects of bird watching from the origin of birds, bird naming, and bird calls to birdfeeders, binoculars, and keeping notes. Identifier includes photographs, drawings of nests, maps, and information about migration.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
How to Know the Birds introduces a new, holistic approach to bird-watching, by noting how behaviors, settings, and seasonal cycles connect with shape, song, color, gender, age distinctions, and other features traditionally used to identify species. With short essays on 200 observable species, expert author Ted Floyd guides us through a year of becoming a better birder, each species representing another useful lesson: from explaining scientific nomenclature...
13) Bird watcher
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Includes information about a variety of birds and birdwatching along with hands-on activities for each topic.
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Sylvia has been nearly paralyzed with grief and anxiety since the tragic death of her husband, father, and brother in a traffic accident. She tries to help in the familys greenhouse while caring for her two young children, but she prefers not to have to deal with customers. Her mothers own grief causes her to hover over her children and grandchildren, and Sylvia seeks a diversion. She takes up birdwatching and soon meets an Amish man who teaches her...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Eli Knapp takes readers from a leaky dugout canoe in Tanzania and the mating grounds of Ecuador's cock-of-the-rock to a juniper titmouse's perch at the Grand Canyon and the migration of hooded mergansers in a New York swamp, exploring life's deepest questions all along the way. In this collection of essays, Knapp intentionally flies away from the flock, reveling in insights gleaned from birds, his students, and the wide-eyed wonder his children's...