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9780548660423: How To Study Birds: A Practical Guide For Amateur Bird-Lovers And Camera-Hunters (1910)
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ISBN 10: 0548660425 ISBN 13: 9780548660423
Editorial: Kessinger Publishing, 2007

Sinopsis

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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HOW TO STUDY BIRDS CHAPTER I BEGINNINGS OF BIRD STUDY ONE auspicious day in June I discovered a hummingbird's nest. I was a small boy, and lived in a suburb of Boston called Rox-bury, near the edge of Brookline, on a fine old colonial estate, where the new Harvard Medical School buildings now stand. There were six acres of lawn, garden, shrubbery, and orchard, overarched by great elms and other shade trees. On one side of the house was a row of alternate Norway spruce and larch trees. A tiny hummingbird had been visiting the flowers about the house, and one day I saw her fly to her nest out near the end of one of the lower branches of the first larch tree. There were young in it at this particular time, but within a few days they had departed, and I brought a step-ladder and took down the nest. Never can I forget my feelings of wonder and admiration as I gazed upon the exquisite little cup built of silky fibers, coated with lichens. It was a revelation of loveliness which laid

Table of Contents

I Beginnings of Bird-Study 15; II Method and Equipment 25; III Identifying Birds 37; IV Where to Find Birds 49; V Learning Birds' Songs and Notes 63; VI The Spring Migration 75; VII The Nesting Season 87; VIII Nesting Episodes Near Home 101; IX The Autumnal Flighti 115; X Knowing the Winter Birds 127; XI How to Find Birds of Prey 141; XII Following the Water-Birds 155; XIII Camera Hunting and Outfit 169; XIV Using the Ordinary Camera 183; XV Shooting with Reflecting Camera 203; XVI Bird-Lovers' Vacation Expeditions 215; XVII Bird-Work for Indoors ; 229; XVIII Social Bird-Study 241; XIX Bird-Study for Schools 251; ix

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Editorial
Kessinger Publishing
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0548660425
ISBN 13 
9780548660423
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
340
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