paperback. Condition: New.
Language: English
Published by Jossey-Bass/ A Wiley Imprint/ John Wiley & Sons, Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2001
ISBN 10: 0787955841 ISBN 13: 9780787955847
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition/ 5th Printing. 168 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear and crisp pages. Occassional pen and highlighter markings on text/marginalia. No dj.
Language: English
Published by Louisiana State University Press for the Louisiana Wild Life and Fisheries Commission, Baton Rouge, 1974
ISBN 10: 0807100870 ISBN 13: 9780807100875
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Robert E Tucker, John P O'Neill, and H Douglas Pratt (illustrator). Third Edition. New, completely revised edition. HEAVY. xxx, 651pp, 14 full-page habitat photographs, 147 figures, 16 bar graphs showing seasonal distribution of all 411 species, bibliography, index, illustrated end-papers. Decorative cloth boards in price-clipped dust-jacket. In this new edition, the 411 species of birds observed in the state are described, including 43 species that have been discovered since the book was first published in 1955. Nearly every species account has been rewirtten and updated. The species descriptions are preceded by several general introductory chapters covering Louisiana as a place to see birds; how to identify birds; feathers, plumage, and molt; the migration of birds; the economic value of birds; attracting birds; conservation and wildlife management. Size: 8vo.
Published by Ithaca, NY : The Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell University; [color plates, Dallas, Pennsylvania : Payne Printery, Inc.], 1974., 1974
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 326, [1] p. ; (part col.) 25 cm. ; ISSN: 0459-6137 ; LCCN: 63-24447 ; OCLC: 1783015 ; Serial Publication : Periodical ; stiff paper wrappers with color illustration ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due pocket ; Contents: Breeding biology of two Cuckoos and their hosts in South West Africa / Rolf A C Jensen and C F Clinning -- The Plumbeous Heron of the Galapagos / Barbara K Snow -- Breeding biology of Swallow-Tailed Kites in Florida / Noel F R Snyder -- The Red-Billed Toucan in Guyana / Godfrey R Bourne -- Bird diversity and abundance in Amazon forest communities / Thomas E Lovejoy -- Acoustic behavior of the Northern Jacana / Donald A Jenni, Roger D Gambs, and Burr J Betts -- The evolution of clutch size and mal chauvinism in the White-Bearded Manakin / Alan Lill -- The Antarctic Terns of Anvers Island / David F Parmelee and Stephen J Maxson -- Social structure and reproductive behavior in the Greater Rhea / Donald F Bruning -- Patterns in the life histories of Storm Petrels on the Farallon Islands / David G Ainley, Steve Morrell, and T James Lewis -- The authors and artists briefly noted -- Staff, administration board, research collaborators, field-collaborators, and Arthur A Allen Medalists -- Members of the Laboratory of Ornithology ; illustrators, Martin Glen Loates, William C Dilger, John P O'Neill, Arthur Singer, Frederick Kent Truslow, Rolf Jensen, Robert Gillmor, Donald L Malick, Orville O Rice, Tony Angell, John A Gwynne, Jr., Albert E. Gilbert, Don Radovich ; crease to page 146-147 ; VG. Book.