How to Be a Better Birder (eBook)

Derek Lovitch (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4177-6 (ISBN)

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The essential tools you need to become a better birderThis unique illustrated handbook provides all the essential tools you need to become a better birder. Here Derek Lovitch offers a more effective way to go about identification-he calls it the "e;Whole Bird and More"e; approach-that will enable you to identify more birds, more quickly, more of the time. He demonstrates how to use geography and an understanding of habitats, ecology, and even the weather to enrich your birding experience and help you find something out of the ordinary. Lovitch shows how to track nocturnal migrants using radar, collect data for bird conservation, discover exciting rarities, develop patch lists-and much more.This is the ideal resource for intermediate and advanced birders. Whether you want to build a bigger list or simply learn more about birds, How to Be a Better Birder will take your birding skills to the next level.Explains the "e;Whole Bird and More"e; approach to bird identificationDemonstrates how to use geography, habitats, ecology, and the weather to be a better birderShows how to bird at night using radar, collect conservation data, develop patch lists-and moreOffers essential tools for intermediate and advanced birders

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.8.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 53 color illus. 10 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Alder flycatcher • American Bird Conservancy • American Birding Association • American black duck • American crow • American Robin • American woodcock • Amphispiza • Biology • bird • bird atlas • Bird Conservation • Bird Day • bird dog • bird feeder • birdlife international • bird migration • Bird observatory • Birdwatching • Black-headed Gull • Blackpoll warbler • Bobolink • Breeding bird survey • Brown hawk-owl • buzzword • Career • Carolina Chickadee • Cave swallow • chickadee • Chipping sparrow • Christmas Bird Count • cold front • Columbidae • common species • Common starling • Connecticut warbler • Cordilleran flycatcher • Cornell Lab of Ornithology • crossbill • David Allen Sibley • dickcissel • Diving duck • doppler radar • Ecotourism • Elegant trogon • Emberizidae • Empidonax • Eurasian collared dove • fieldfare • Field guide • Finding • Forecasting • frigatebird • Gannet • Grace's warbler • Gray kingbird • Great egret • Greater yellowlegs • Grebe • gull • Handbook of the Birds of the World • Hermit Thrush • honeycreeper • House sparrow • Iceland gull • insect • Invasive species • Island hopping • Jack snipe • Kentucky warbler • kingbird • kinglet • Light pollution • Lincoln's sparrow • mallard • Melospiza • meteorology • Morus (plant) • moulting • mudflat • National Wildlife • NEXRAD • North America • Northwestern crow • Orange-crowned warbler • Ornithology • Pacific-slope flycatcher • Parasitic jaeger • Parula • Passerine • Patuxent Wildlife Research Center • peregrine falcon • phenology • phenomenon • Pied-billed grebe • Pine warbler • plumage • point reyes • Prairie Warbler • Ranch • Red crossbill • Red-tailed Hawk • Reproductive success • result • roseate spoonbill • Royal tern • sandpiper • Sharp-shinned hawk • Silence of the Songbirds • Song sparrow • Song Thrush • Sooty tern • Sparrow • State bird • Striped skunk • Suggestion • Summer tanager • swallow • Swamp sparrow • tanager • Tennessee warbler • thicket • Thrush (bird) • Townsend's warbler • Tropical kingbird • Volunteering • wader • warbler • Warm front • waterfowl • Weather • Weather map • weather radar • Western tanager • wetland • White-throated sparrow • wildlife management • Woodcreeper • Woodlot • year • Yellow-rumped warbler
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4177-1 / 1400841771
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4177-6 / 9781400841776