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Amelia Hansen has been a freelance illustrator since 1989, specializing in nature and natural history subjects. She lives near Kalamazoo, Michigan.
John Eastman is the author of several Stackpole Books. He lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
John Eastman is the author of several Stackpole Books. He lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Takes up where the field guides leave off,
By Jeff Curtis (Plainfield, IN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Birds of Lake Pond & Marsh: Water and Wetland Birds of Eastern North America (Paperback)
Field guides are great for helping you identify the bird you just scoped, but once you want to learn more about the birds you've been seeing the field guides aren't of much use. This book covers a limited number of birds, but the information provided is excellent. He covers the life history of the birds, including a season by season account of the typical year in the bird's life. Mating habits, habitat preferences, and threats to their enviroment are some of the topics covered. In general, there are 3-5 pages devoted to each species. The illustrations are black and white, but are well done.
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Great Trilogy,
This review is from: Birds of Lake Pond & Marsh: Water and Wetland Birds of Eastern North America (Paperback)
Author John Eastman has written a trilogy of very good, very useful, very readable books that nearly every level of bird enthusiast will value and return to time and again. "Birds of Forest, Yard and Thicket", "Birds of Field and Shore", and "Birds of Lake, Pond and Marsh" are well-organized and well-written books that could serve as auxiliary texts for a beginning Ornithology class but very enjoyable and informative references for anyone interested in the roles of familiar birds in their ecological niches. Any of the books, or all three, will be welcome additions to the birder's book shelf - but they probably won't spend much time sitting on the shelf.
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This book is the second of a 3-volume series on the most common and familiar bird species of eastern North America-birds that most of us can see in the appropriate season without traveling too far from home. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
foremost nest predators, annual plumage molt, wading rails, breeding range spans, previous breeding sites, annual feather molt, waterfowl family, northern breeding range, hatching asynchronous, most dabblers, other duck species, nestlings altricial, other dabblers, flightless period, new flight feathers, molt migrations, dense marsh vegetation, many drakes, loafing sites, nest rim, eclipse plumage, dummy nests, rail family, annual molt, sexes construct Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, United States, Great Lakes, Central America, South America, New England, Great Plains, West Indies, Chesapeake Bay, North Carolina, Birds of Forest, Aldo Leopold, Hudson Bay, James Bay, Northern Hemisphere, Albert Hochbaum, James Granlund, San Francisco Bay, South Carolina New!
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This book is the second of a 3-volume series on the most common and familiar bird species of eastern North America-birds that most of us can see in the appropriate season without traveling too far from home. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
foremost nest predators, annual plumage molt, wading rails, breeding range spans, previous breeding sites, annual feather molt, waterfowl family, northern breeding range, hatching asynchronous, most dabblers, other duck species, nestlings altricial, other dabblers, flightless period, new flight feathers, molt migrations, dense marsh vegetation, many drakes, loafing sites, nest rim, eclipse plumage, dummy nests, rail family, annual molt, sexes construct Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, United States, Great Lakes, Central America, South America, New England, Great Plains, West Indies, Chesapeake Bay, North Carolina, Birds of Forest, Aldo Leopold, Hudson Bay, James Bay, Northern Hemisphere, Albert Hochbaum, James Granlund, San Francisco Bay, South Carolina New!
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- Birds of Forest, Yard & Thicket by John Eastman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A World Checklist of Birds by Burt Monroe Jr. on page 2, and Back Matter
- The Birds of Michigan by James Granlund in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Atlas of Breeding Birds of Michigan by Richard Brewer in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Wild Geese by M. A. Ogilvie on page 34
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