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A naturalist along the Jersey shore /
"Come for a journey along the Jersey shore with naturalist and ecologist Joanna Burger! In these deeply felt, closely observed personal essays and field sketches, Burger invokes the intertwined lives of naturalist and wild creatures at the ever-changing edge of ocean and land. Discover with her...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Where did the shore come from?
- Birds on salt marshes and beaches
- Sale hay, glasswort, and other commercial ventures
- Is global climate change a threat?
- Oystercatchers and Willets along the shore
- The spring chorus: Fowler's toads at Little Beach
- Fiddler crabs at Cheesequake
- Cattle egrets on Islajo Island
- Killifish move in
- Horseshoe crabs on Delaware Bay
- Shorebirds along Delaware Bay
- Laughing gulls at Stone Harbor marshes
- Civilized mallards at Manahawkin
- Common terns and skimmers at Barnegat Bay
- Piping plovers at Corson's Inlet
- Peregrines, ospreys, and harriers: diurnal predators
- Mink, mussels, and ghost crabs
- Diamondback terrapins at Little Beach
- Mosquitoes: the New Jersey state bird
- The shorebirds return
- Migrating monarchs at Cape May
- Hawks in Cape May
- Nocturnal wanderings at Higbee Beach
- Birding at Point Liberte: in search of a snowy owl
- Snow geese and Brant at Brigantine and Barnegat Bay
- A Killdeer's plaintive call on the Rutgers campus
- Herring gulls: newcomers to the Jersey shore
- Herons and egrets at Barnegat Bay and along the Kills
- Appendix: Scientific names mentioned in the book.