Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Second Edition

Birds of the Middle East is now the most field-ready and comprehensive guide to the fantastic birds of this region. This fully revised and updated second edition covers all species--including vagrants--found in the Arabian Peninsula (including Socotra), Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Cyprus. It features 176 superb color plates depicting more than 800 species, as well as 820 color distribution maps that show the breeding range for almost every species. In this upgraded edition, maps and detailed species accounts are now located opposite the plates, making this stunningly illustrated field guide easier to use than ever.


 * The most comprehensive field guide to the birds of the Middle East
 * Covers more than 800 species--including 100 not covered in the first edition
 * Features 176 color plates depicting all species
 * Includes detailed species accounts and 820 color distribution maps
 * Text and maps now located opposite the color plates

Birds of the Middle East

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

North Carolina

David Allen Sibley, America's most gifted contemporary painter of birds, is the author and illustrator of this comprehensive guide. His beautifully detailed illustrations-more than 6,600 in all-and descriptions of 810 species and 350 regional populations will enrich every birder's experience.

The Sibley Guide's innovative design makes it entirely user friendly. The illustrations are arranged to facilitate comparison, yet still capture the unique character of each species.

The Sibley Guide to Birds provides a wealth of new information:
-Captioned illustrations show many previously unpublished field marks and revisions of known marks
-Nearly every species is shown in flight
-Measurements include length, wingspan, and weight for every species
-Subspecies and geographic varients are covered thoroughly
-Complete voice descriptions are included for every species
-Maps show the complete distribution of every species: summer and winter ranges, migration routes, and rare occurrences

Both novice and experienced birders will appreciate these and other innovative features:
-An introductory page for each family or group of related families makes comparisons simple
-Clear and concise labels with pointers identify field marks directly
-Birds are illustrated in similar poses to make comparisons between species quick and easy
-Illustrations emphasize the way birds look in the field

With The Sibley Guide to Birds, the National Audubon Society makes the art and expertise of David Sibley available to the world in a comprehensive, handsome, easy-to-use volume that will be the indispensable identification guide every birder must own.

The Sibley Guide to Birds

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Massachusetts

“Lovely, celebratory. For all the belittling of ‘bird brains,’ [Ackerman] shows them to be uniquely impressive machines . . .” —New York Times Book Review “A lyrical testimony to the wonders of avian intelligence.” —Scientific American An award-winning science writer tours the globe to reveal what makes birds capable of such extraordinary feats of mental prowess Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores their newly discovered brilliance and how it came about. As she travels around the world to the most cutting-edge frontiers of research, Ackerman not only tells the story of the recently uncovered genius of birds but also delves deeply into the latest findings about the bird brain itself that are shifting our view of what it means to be intelligent. At once personal yet scientific, richly informative and beautifully written, The Genius of Birds celebrates the triumphs of these surprising and fiercely intelligent creatures. Ackerman is also the author of Birds by the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast.

The Genius of Birds

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3 vintage books - these are the actual books you will receive. 1: “Of Human Bondage” 1936. The first and most autobiographical of the author’s masterpieces. Book Club Edition. 2: “That Quail, Robert” 1966. True story of a bobwhite who refused to leave her human family on Cape Cod and became a bit famous. 3: “Bring Me a Unicorn” 1972. Diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928. She would go on to marry Charles Lindbergh, infamous aviator, in 1929. And of course, a few years later there were the worldwide headlines of the kidnapping of their son. Book Club Edition. All have lightly tanned pages and bumped corners and spines. No writing except one states “Christmas 1966” on ffep. All DJ show wear, as shown in photos. #vintage #bundle #autobiography #classics #birds #Lindbergh (Shelf 9B)

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

Vintage BUNDLE 

Idaho

For avian enthusiasts, from armchair observers to dedicated life-listers, this brilliant book from acclaimed National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore celebrates the beauty of all birds, great and small.



This elegantly packaged celebration of birds from around the world unites incredible animal portraits from Joel Sartore's distinguished National Geographic Photo Ark project with inspiring text by up-and-coming birder Noah Strycker. It includes hundreds of species, from tiny finches to charismatic eagles; brilliant toucans, intricate birds of paradise, and perennial favorites such as parrots, hummingbirds, and owls also make colorful appearances. Everyone who cares about birds--from the family with a bird feeder outside the kitchen window to the serious birder with a life list of thousands--will flock to this distinctive and uplifting book.

Birds of the Photo Ark

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#paperback #nature #birds #wildlife #rainforest #animals #animalwelfare #sanctuary #wildlifedefender #globalization #southamerica

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird

Caring for orphaned animals at her own zoo in the tropical country of Belize, Sharon Matola became one of Central America’s greatest wildlife defenders. And when powerful outside forces conspired with the local government to build a dam that would flood the nesting ground of the only scarlet macaws in Belize, Matola was drawn into the fight of her life. In The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, award-winning author Bruce Barcott chronicles Sharon Matola’s inspiring crusade to stop a multinational corporation in its tracks. Ferocious in her passion, Matila and her confederates–a ragtag army of courageous locals and eccentric expatriates–endure slander and reprisals and take the fight to the courtroom and the boardroom, from local village streets to protests around the globe. Barcott explores the tension between environmental conservation and human development, puts a human face on the battle over globalization, and ultimately shows us how one unwavering woman risked her life to save the most beautiful bird in the world.

The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw

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Wonderful read even if youre not into hawks. The autobiography of a woman grieving a death with a goshawk. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Washington

An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.

H Is for Hawk

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A Checklist

Birds of the World

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Texas





Spread your wings! Amelia Bedelia watches two birds build a nest and hatch their eggs in this funny story about families.

Amelia Bedelia Is for the Birds

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#dinosaurs #birds #evolution #flight #paleontology

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds

The discovery of stunning, feathered dinosaur fossils coming out of China since 2006 suggest that these creatures were much more bird-like than paleontologists previously imagined. Further evidence--bones, genetics, eggs, behavior, and more--has shown a seamless transition from fleet-footed carnivores to the ancestors of modern birds.

Mixing colorful portraits with news on the latest fossil findings and interviews with leading paleontologists in the United States, China, Europe, and Australia, John Pickrell explains and details dinosaurs' development of flight. This special capacity introduced a whole new range of abilities for the animals and helped them survive a mass extinction, when thousands of other dinosaur species that once populated the Earth did not. Pickrell also turns his journalistic eye toward the stories behind the latest discoveries, investigating the role of the Chinese black market in trading fossils, the controversies among various dinosaur hunters, the interference of national governments intent on protecting scientific information, and the race to publish findings first that make this research such a dynamic area of science.

Flying Dinosaurs

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#paperback #nature #birds #nationalgeographic #fieldguide #beautifulbirdpictures
Some water puckering on first pages.

Maryland

A completely revised and updated new edition of the popular birding handbook provides identification tips, full-color artwork, new locator and range maps, information on behavior and nesting, new plumage and species classification data, and other valuable facts about more than eight hundred North American birds. Original.

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds: North America

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A Step-By-Step Book About Finches 1988. Softcover. Color illustrated. Nice clean previously owned copy. #finches #birds #breeding #songbirds 

A Step-By-Step Book About Finches 1988

A Step-By-Step Book About Finches

Indiana

Let's face it--all birds are fascinating, wonderful, idiotic jerks--no matter where in the world they reside.

Following in the footsteps of the bestselling book The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America, this hilarious sequel ventures beyond to identify the stupidest birds around the world. Featuring birds from North and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, author Matt Kracht identifies the dumb birds that manage to live all over the freaking place with snarky, yet accurate, names and humorous, anger-filled drawings.

This guide book details exactly how much these morons suck with facts about each bird's (annoying) call, its (stupid) migratory pattern, and its (downright tacky) markings. Complete with a matching game, bird descriptor checklist, tips on how to identify a bird (you can tell a lot by looking into a bird's eyes, for example), this profanity-laden book offers a balance of fact and wit that will appeal to hardcore birders and casual bird lovers (and haters) alike.

A MUST-HAVE: A must-have sequel to the bestselling parody book The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America.

UNIQUE & LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY: This is a great coffee table or bar top conversation-starting book. And a bonus, while the content is humorous, it is practical and useful!

A GREAT PRESENT: This is the perfect gift for the bird lovers and haters in your life. It also makes a great Mother's Day, Father's Day, birthday, retirement, or gag gift.

Perfect for:

* Birdwatching and nature enthusiasts
* Armchair birders (or nonbirders)
* Someone who needs a quirky gift for an animal lover friend
* People with serious birders in their lives who want something lighthearted

The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World

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Write your own book with the illustrations provided! #birds #childrens #writeityourself #paperback 

California

Three Brainy Birds Spreading the Word

#angeybirds #birds #funny #nationalgeographic #humour #humor #games #pigs #ya #paperback 

A Furious Flight into the Final Frontier

Introduces facts about the solar system, outer space, and the mysteries of the universe as the Angry Birds explore the galaxy on their quest to rescue their precious eggs.

National Geographic Angry Birds Space

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Amazon has this book for $174.62!
coffee table size book. 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Virginia

An Artist in Nature

Robert Bateman

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#hardcover #children #birds #randmcnally #elfbook #antique #old #classic #johnny

Johnny and the Birds

The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of North American Birds

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#paperback #birdfeeding #birdhouses #birdwatching #backyards #birds

Kentucky

How to Attract, House and Feed Birds

#hardcover #birding #birds #birdwatching #history

Ohio

A Brief History of American Birding

From the moment Europeans arrived in North America, they were awestruck by a continent awash with birds--great flocks of wild pigeons, prairies teeming with grouse, woodlands alive with brilliantly colored songbirds. Of a Feather traces the colorful origins of American birding: the frontier ornithologists who collected eggs between border skirmishes; the society matrons who organized the first effective conservation movement; and the luminaries with checkered pasts, such as Alexander Wilson (a convicted blackmailer) and the endlessly self-mythologizing John James Audubon. Scott Weidensaul also recounts the explosive growth of modern birding that began when an awkward schoolteacher named Roger Tory Peterson published A Field Guide to the Birds in 1934. Today birding counts iPod-wearing teens and obsessive "listers" among its tens of millions of participants, making what was once an eccentric hobby into something so completely mainstream it's now (almost) cool. This compulsively readable popular history will surely find a roost on every birder's shelf.


Of a Feather

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Book 9 of the Guardians of Ga’Hoole series.

Book worn at edges. Pages are in good shape with no writing, highlighting or stains.

Books 2, 3, 7 also available.

When Ezylryb tells Soren and Coryn to read the legends of Ga'Hoole hidden in his library, they find a world of treachery and magic in which the rulers struggle to keep peace.

The First Collier (Guardians of Ga'Hoole #9)

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Book 7 of the Guardians of Ga’Hoole series.

Good used condition with little wear at edges. Pages are in good shape with no writing, highlighting or stains.

Books 2, 3, 9 also available.

Ga'Hoole is victorious, but far from the great tree, in the bitter ashes of defeat under a full moon, Nyroc is born. And he will be bred to monstrous evil.

Kludd is dead. Nyra, his mate, is determined that her hatchling, Nyroc, will fulfill his father's destiny: the vicious oppression of all the owl kingdoms. But Nyroc is a poor student of evil. A light grows in his heart, fed by scraps of forbidden legend and strange news of a place where goodness and nobility reign. He must summon all his courage to defy his destiny -- and the embodiment of evil that is his mother.



The Hatchling (Guardians of Ga'Hoole #7)

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NOTE: This is a book for teachers not storybook

Book full of lesson plans and coloring pages revolving around eggs! 

Publisher recommends this book for PreK to 1st grade. More info here: https://www.lhsgems.org/GEMSeggs.html

Science

Teacher's Guide

This guide introduces children, grades Preschool-1, to the wonder of eggs and provides them with experience to begin developing key concepts in biology and the life sciences. The activities are noteworthy for their interdisciplinary richness, interweaving literature, math, life science, physical science, drama, role-playing, and art.

Eggs Eggs Everywhere

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#winniethepooh #pooh #encyclopedia #animals #mammals #reptiles #firstread #insects #birds 

Richard Porter; Simon Aspinall

Birds of the Middle East

David Allen Sibley (Illustrator); National Audubon Society Staff (Editor)

The Sibley Guide to Birds

Jennifer Ackerman

The Genius of Birds

Various

Vintage BUNDLE

Joel Sartore; Noah Strycker

Birds of the Photo Ark

Bruce Barcott

The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw

Helen Macdonald

H Is for Hawk

James F. Clements

Birds of the World

Herman Parish; Lynne Avril (Illustrator)

Amelia Bedelia Is for the Birds

John Pickrell

Flying Dinosaurs

National Geographic Society

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds: North America

Elaine Radford

A Step-By-Step Book About Finches

Matt Kracht

The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World

Jeannie Winston

Three Brainy Birds Spreading the Word

Amy Briggs; Peter Vesterbacka (Foreword by)

National Geographic Angry Birds Space

Rick Archbold; Random House Value Publishing Staff

Robert Bateman

Ian Munn

Johnny and the Birds

David Chandler

The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of North American Birds

Walter E. Schutz

How to Attract, House and Feed Birds

Scott Weidensaul

Of a Feather

Kathryn Lasky

The First Collier (Guardians of Ga'Hoole #9)

Kathryn Lasky

The Hatchling (Guardians of Ga'Hoole #7)

Jean C. Echols

Eggs Eggs Everywhere

Disney Book group

My very first encyclopedia