Experienced birders use the most easily observed characteristics — size, structure, behavior, and general color patterns — to identify birds even before looking carefully at plumage details. Now birders at all levels can learn how to identify shorebirds quickly and simply. This guide includes more than 870 stunning color photographs, starting with a general impression of the species and progressing to more detailed images of the bird throughout its life cycle. Quiz questions in the captions will engage and challenge all birders and help them benefit from this simplified, commonsense approach to identification.

    A gripping account of the dramatic race to preserve one of America's most imperiled birds.

    Compiled by some of the country's leading experts in their fields, this book offers a detailed introduction to the natural and man-made environment of Scotland's mountains, written by hillwalkers for hillwalkers.

    Behind these poems lies the urge to engage the tectonics of planetary dwelling with the rickety contraption of language, and to register the stress, sheer and strain — but also the astonishment — engendered by that necessary failure.

    The book is illustrated by outstanding photographs coupled with informative personal essays, accented by visual representations of the sounds (sonagrams). What's more, the accompanying compact disc contains superb recordings of all the songs and calls discussed. 8.50 inches tall x 8.75 inches long x 0.25 inches wide