Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City
«'Take this guide wherever you go,' [Day] implores readers in the introduction. And we hope many do, since it reveals a New York we long to see, the wild, beautiful city of birds known to Audubon, Chapman, and Griscom. -- Chuck Hagner BirdWatching Magazine An excellent guide for New York City residents. If you have any interest in the birds around you (and there are plenty of birds around you, even in NYC), this guide will really open your eyes. Birder's Library Day's deeply researched and richly illustrated Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City will be indispensable to locals and tourists alike. Sierra Will fill a niche for beginning birders and backyard watchers in the northeastern US... Choice You don't have to live in or be visiting New York to enjoy this book. Times Literary Supplement These three fabulous New York women have been to every park in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx, seeking out their feathered material. Their pooled talents have yielded a field guide that runs from Double-Crested Cormorants to Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers, revealing the richness of diversity in the lives of our fellow New Yorkers from the natural world. Huffington Post Overall, this guide is not just a source of information, but fosters an appreciation for the wildlife that surrounds us every day. American Reference Books Annual»
Look around New York, and you'll probably see birds: wood ducks swimming in Queens, a stalking black-crowned night-heron in Brooklyn, great horned owls perching in the Bronx, warblers feeding in Central Park, or Staten Island's purple martins flying to and fro. Les mer
The hundreds of stunning photographs by Beth Bergman and gorgeous illustrations by Trudy Smoke will help you identify the ninety avian species commonly seen in New York. Once you enter the world of the city's birds, life in the great metropolis will never look the same.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781421416175
- Utgivelsesår
- 2015
- Format
- 21 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Illustrated Text 2017
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«'Take this guide wherever you go,' [Day] implores readers in the introduction. And we hope many do, since it reveals a New York we long to see, the wild, beautiful city of birds known to Audubon, Chapman, and Griscom. -- Chuck Hagner BirdWatching Magazine An excellent guide for New York City residents. If you have any interest in the birds around you (and there are plenty of birds around you, even in NYC), this guide will really open your eyes. Birder's Library Day's deeply researched and richly illustrated Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City will be indispensable to locals and tourists alike. Sierra Will fill a niche for beginning birders and backyard watchers in the northeastern US... Choice You don't have to live in or be visiting New York to enjoy this book. Times Literary Supplement These three fabulous New York women have been to every park in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx, seeking out their feathered material. Their pooled talents have yielded a field guide that runs from Double-Crested Cormorants to Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers, revealing the richness of diversity in the lives of our fellow New Yorkers from the natural world. Huffington Post Overall, this guide is not just a source of information, but fosters an appreciation for the wildlife that surrounds us every day. American Reference Books Annual»