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Lives of North American Birds Hardcover - 2001
by Kaufman, Kenn
- Used
- Hardcover
This is the book that goes beyond the field guides: not a guide for naming the birds, but a reference for understanding them -- a complete, handy, one-volume encyclopedia on the fascinating lives of our birds.
* Includes information about more than 900 birds: complete life histories for 680 species that occur regularly in North America and shorter accounts for more than 230 others that visit occasionally, with more than 600 beautiful photographs and more than 600 range maps.
* Gives every important detail about the lives of birds: what they eat, where they build their nests, how many eggs they lay, what habitat they choose, when they migrate, what their current conservation status is, and much more.
* Includes information about more than 900 birds: complete life histories for 680 species that occur regularly in North America and shorter accounts for more than 230 others that visit occasionally, with more than 600 beautiful photographs and more than 600 range maps.
* Gives every important detail about the lives of birds: what they eat, where they build their nests, how many eggs they lay, what habitat they choose, when they migrate, what their current conservation status is, and much more.
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- Title Lives of North American Birds
- Author Kaufman, Kenn
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Pages 704
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston
- Date 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 173682
- ISBN 9780618159888 / 0618159886
- Weight 2.82 lbs (1.28 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 7 x 1.22 in (22.86 x 17.78 x 3.10 cm)
- Ages 12 to 17 years
- Grade levels 7 - 12
- Library of Congress subjects Birds - North America
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96020285
- Dewey Decimal Code 598
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Summary
This is the book that goes beyond the field guides: not a guide for naming the birds, but a reference for understanding them -- a complete, handy, one-volume encyclopedia on the fascinating lives of our birds.
* Includes information about more than 900 birds: complete life histories for 680 species that occur regularly in North America and shorter accounts for more than 230 others that visit occasionally, with more than 600 beautiful photographs and more than 600 range maps.
* Gives every important detail about the lives of birds: what they eat, where they build their nests, how many eggs they lay, what habitat they choose, when they migrate, what their current conservation status is, and much more.
* Includes information about more than 900 birds: complete life histories for 680 species that occur regularly in North America and shorter accounts for more than 230 others that visit occasionally, with more than 600 beautiful photographs and more than 600 range maps.
* Gives every important detail about the lives of birds: what they eat, where they build their nests, how many eggs they lay, what habitat they choose, when they migrate, what their current conservation status is, and much more.
First line
These are long-bodied, low-slung divers of northern waters.
