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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Bird Biographies
Alice Eliza Ball and Robert Bruce Horsfall
248 pages~4 hr 57 min read150 chapters$4.99
Give a bird a life story and you never forget it. Alice Ball's biographies portray the common birds of the northeastern winter, describing each permanent resident and visitor around New York with warmth and a keen eye. Nature study made personal. Get to know your winter birds as neighbors with names and habits.
Every copy includes a printable PDF edition, a beautifully typeset book you can print, mark up in the margins, and keep on your shelf. Yours the moment you own it.
Inside this book
150 chapters
- 1BIRD BIOGRAPHIES A GUIDE-BOOK FOR BEGINNERS
- 2ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 3FOREWORD
- 4SPRING TWILIGHT
- 5CONTENTS
- 6LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 7DESCRIPTIONS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF OUR COMMON WINTER BIRDS PART TWO
- 8WINTER BIRDS Permanent Residents and Winter Visitors
- 9BIRDS SEEN DURING THE WINTER NEAR NEW YORK CITY[2]
- 10PERMANENT RESIDENTS
- 11WINTER RESIDENTS AND VISITORS
- 12DESCRIPTIONS AND BIOGRAPHIES THE BLUE JAY Crow Family—Corvidæ
- 13FLORIDA JAYS
- 14PACIFIC COAST JAYS
- 15THE CANADA JAY
- 16THE AMERICAN CROW Crow Family—Corvidæ
- 17THE RAVEN
- 18THE CARDINAL Cardinal Grosbeak, Redbird, Virginia Nightingale
+ 132 more. The full contents open with the book.
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