Bev Harvey

64 pages educational book about birds. Minor scuffs and creases.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

Children’s Nature Library 

Discusses important events and accomplishments, and reveals some startling information about the struggle for human and civil rights.

Birds

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Scott Weidensaul

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds

Scott Weidensaul follows hawks over the Mexican coastal plains, Bar-tailed Godwits that hitchhike on gale winds 7,000 miles nonstop across the Pacific from Alaska to New Zealand, and the Myriad Songbirds whose numbers have dwindled so dramatically in recent years.

Living on the Wind

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Paul Kerlinger

Book has slight bend. Former library book.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Excellent, popular, authoritative explanation of bird migration.

How Birds Migrate

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

California

The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds

In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the highest mountains, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch has exploded. What we've learned of these key migrations--how billions of birds circumnavigate the globe, flying tens of thousands of miles between hemispheres on an annual basis--is nothing short of extraordinary.Bird migration entails almost unfathomable endurance, like a sparrow-sized sandpiper that will fly nonstop from Canada to Venezuela--the equivalent of running 126 consecutive marathons without food, water, or rest--avoiding dehydration by "drinking" moisture from its own muscles and organs, while orienting itself using the earth's magnetic field through a form of quantum entanglement that made Einstein queasy. Crossing the Pacific Ocean in nine days of nonstop flight, as some birds do, leaves little time for sleep, but migrants can put half their brains to sleep for a few seconds at a time, alternating sides--and their reaction time actually improves.These and other revelations convey both the wonder of bird migration and its global sweep, from the mudflats of the Yellow Sea in China to the remote mountains of northeastern India to the dusty hills of southern Cyprus. This breathtaking work of nature writing from Pulitzer Prize finalist Scott Weidensaul also introduces readers to those scientists, researchers, and bird lovers trying to preserve global migratory patterns in the face of climate change and other environmental challenges.Drawing on his own extensive fieldwork, in A World on the Wing Weidensaul unveils with dazzling prose the miracle of nature taking place over our heads.

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Teri Crawford Jones

Birds

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Living on the Wind

Paul Kerlinger

How Birds Migrate

Scott Weidensaul

A World on the Wing

Scott Weidensaul

A World on the Wing

Christopher Perrins and Jonathan Elphick

The Complete Encyclopedia of Birds and Bird Migration