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Red Knot (Calidris canutus) research : preliminary results and future opportunities
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Reston, Virginia : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,

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Red Knot (Calidris canutus) research : preliminary results and future opportunities
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Reston, Virginia : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,

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The narrow edge
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ISBN: 0300213719 9780300213713 9780300185195 0300185197 9780300219692 0300219695 Year: 2015 Publisher: New Haven

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In a volume as urgent and eloquent as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, this book-winner of the Southern Environmental Law Center's 2016 Reed Environmental Writing Award in the book category-reveals how the health and well-being of a tiny bird and an ancient crab mirrors our own Winner of the 2016 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award given by the Society of Environmental Journalists Each year, red knots, sandpipers weighing no more than a coffee cup, fly a near-miraculous 19,000 miles from the tip of South America to their nesting grounds in the Arctic and back. Along the way, they double their weight by gorging on millions of tiny horseshoe crab eggs. Horseshoe crabs, ancient animals that come ashore but once a year, are vital to humans, too: their blue blood safeguards our health. Now, the rufa red knot, newly listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, will likely face extinction in the foreseeable future across its entire range, 40 states and 27 countries. The first United States bird listed because global warming imperils its existence, it will not be the last: the red knot is the twenty-first century's "canary in the coal mine." Logging thousands of miles following the knots, shivering with the birds out on the snowy tundra, tracking them down in bug-infested marshes, Cramer vividly portrays what's at stake for millions of shorebirds and hundreds of millions of people living at the sea edge. The Narrow Edge offers an uplifting portrait of the tenacity of tiny birds and of the many people who, on the sea edge we all share, keep knots flying and offer them safe harbor. Winner of the 2016 National Academies Communications Award for best book that honors the best in science communications. Sponsored by the Keck Futures Initiative-a program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, with the support of the W.M. Keck Foundation


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The Crossley ID guide.
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ISBN: 1400848083 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Crossley Books, Princeton University Press,

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A groundbreaking and accessible field guide to the birds of Britain and IrelandThis guide is a celebration of the beauty of birds and the British and Irish countryside. Aimed at beginner and intermediate birders, yet suitable for all levels, this new volume in the groundbreaking Crossley ID Guide series is the most user-friendly guide to the birds of Britain and Ireland. Following The Crossley ID Guides' award-winning design, this book looks at all regularly occurring species in Britain and Ireland, and shows readers how to identify birds in their natural habitats using size, structure, shape, probability, and behavior—just like the experts do! Stunning images are accompanied by the colorful and compelling text of Dominic Couzens, one of Britain's leading nature writers.This unique book treats more than 300 species—all the regularly occurring birds likely to be encountered by observers--and the guide's attractive pages provide a real-life approach to bird identification. Beautiful, in-focus scenes present birds in various plumages and in lifelike poses set in identifiable British and Irish habitats. The plates also illustrate how a bird's appearance changes with distance. Organizing images in cohesive, easy-to-understand plates rather than as separate photographs, this book also sets itself apart by containing more images that demonstrate flight, behavior, habitat, and plumages than any other volume available. Not only is this field guide a reference book, it is also a spectacular teaching resource that makes it easy for nature enthusiasts to see and appreciate the big picture of bird identification.The most user-friendly guide to the birds of Britain and IrelandA close look at more than 300 regularly occurring speciesAward-winning Crossley ID Guide designLifelike images of birds from near to farA celebration of the British and Irish countrysideA teaching and field guide and essential referenceConcise and compelling text by Dominic Couzens and Richard Crossley

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Birds --- Bird watching --- Accipiter. --- Anatidae. --- Atlantic Ocean. --- Auk. --- Azure kingfisher. --- Barnacle goose. --- Barred warbler. --- Beak. --- Bee-eater. --- Bird feeder. --- British Isles. --- Buoy. --- Butcherbird. --- Chisel. --- Common buzzard. --- Common gull. --- Common ringed plover. --- Contact call. --- Courtship. --- Crex. --- DNA profiling. --- Dachshund. --- Distraction display. --- Diving duck. --- Domestic duck. --- Doppler effect. --- Duck call. --- Dunlin. --- Eurasian curlew. --- Eye color. --- Eyelash. --- Facial disc. --- Field guide. --- Flight feather. --- Freshwater marsh. --- Garden pond. --- Godwit. --- Great grey shrike. --- Great skua. --- Grey plover. --- Grooves (archaeology). --- Handkerchief. --- Hoopoe. --- Hornsea Mere. --- Invertebrate. --- Jack snipe. --- Larus. --- Little stint. --- Machair. --- Mammal. --- Marsh warbler. --- Mealworm. --- Mergus. --- Mimicry. --- Minutiae. --- Moulting. --- Mussel. --- Neck ring. --- Nest box. --- North America. --- Northern gannet. --- Nostril. --- Olive-backed pipit. --- Ornithology. --- Osprey. --- Peregrine falcon. --- Pipit. --- Plumage. --- Purr. --- Quantity. --- Red kite. --- Red knot. --- Red-backed shrike. --- Rodent. --- Salt marsh. --- Scaup. --- Sedge warbler. --- Sexual dimorphism. --- Shelduck. --- Shrike. --- Skua. --- Sternum. --- Storm petrel. --- Supercilium. --- Temminck's stint. --- Tern. --- Thrush (bird). --- Tit (bird). --- Velvet scoter. --- Vole. --- Wader. --- Warbler. --- Water pipit. --- Water rail. --- Weather. --- Whimbrel. --- Whispering. --- Whooper swan. --- Windbreak. --- Woodland edge.

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