Hunting for frogs on Elston, and other tales from Field and street /

A selection of savvy observations on urban ecology from one of the Midwest's foremost authorities on the subject, Hunting for Frogs on Elston collects the best of naturalist Jerry Sullivan's weekly Field & Street columns, originally published in the Chicago Reader. Engaging, opinionate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sullivan, Jerry, 1938-2000
Otros Autores: Cassidy, Victor M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2004.
Temas:
Natural history.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Natural History
Sciences naturelles.
Écologie urbaine.
natural sciences.
urban environments.
NATURE > Essays.
NATURE > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
Natural history
urban ecology, naturalist, nature, environment, environmentalism, land management, prairie, indigenous, weather, seasons, animals, coyote, passenger pigeons, dog-faced butterflies, rattlesnakes, fireflies, industry, wild onions, gyrfalcons, sludge worms, community, nonfiction, science, plants, grasslands, deer, poplar creek preserve, lichen.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / by Glenda Daniel.
  • 1. State of the prairie. Prairie cathedral 9/27/85 ; Fragmented grasslands 5/22/87 ; Managing nature 10/9/87 ; Too many deer 1/3/92 ; Middle Fork savanna 7/9/93 ; Biodiversity 2/22/91 ; Transanimaling 6/26/92 ; Prairie September 9/25/98.
  • 2. The seasons. Spring comes to Chicago 2/24/95 ; Early Spring 3/13/98 ; Early risers 3/9/84 ; The ephemerals' moment 4/12/85 ; Cherries 7/11/97 ; Bees 7/3/98 ; Fall flora 10/17/97 ; Turkeys 11/16/84 ; Winter reading 12/20/85 ; Squirrels' nests 1/27/95 ; Ice fishing 1/20/84 ; Feeding urban birds 12/12/86.
  • 3. Creatures great and small. Hunting for frogs on Elston Avenue 5/16/86 ; Caterpillars 8/30/85 ; Woodchucks 3/8/91 ; Counting butterflies 7/15/88 ; Sludge worms 2/14/92 ; Rattlesnake hunting 8/14/92 ; Ant transplant 3/27/87 ; Searching for bats 8/10/84 ; Fireflies 7/19/85 ; Migrating Monarchs 9/7/84 ; Badgers 11/23/90 ; Chorus frogs 3/27/98 ; Coyotes in the city 9/11/87 ; Yellow jackets 9/11/87 ; Reading animal tracks 1/25/91.
  • 4. Birds and more birds. The bird hunter 5/10/85 ; Woodpeckers 1/16/87 ; Looking for a gyrfalcon 2/8/91 ; Sparrows 4/6/84 ; Red-tailed hawks 3/13/87 ; Birding in North Channel 7/17/92 ; Kestrels 1/18/85 ; Savanna birds 2/19/93 Feathers 4/10/87 ; Winter flocks 12/1/89 ; Christmas bird count 1/8/88 ; How to find nests 6/14/91 ; Mourning doves 3/24/95 ; Goldfinches 9/28/90 ; The passenger pigeon 4/4/86.
  • 5. Plants. Healthy communities 2/27/98 ; Oak trees 12/16/94 ; Sedges 6/27/97 ; Nightshade 6/13/86 ; Purple loosestrife 9/5/97 ; Jewelweed 10/3/86 ; Hazels 10/11/96 ; Raspberries 7/17/98 ; Wild onions 1/31/92 ; Eastern prairie fringed orchid 10/1/93.
  • 6. People and places. Field guides 9/8/89 ; Surveying Illinois 6/21/96 ; Inland marsh 1/5/96 ; Women naturalists 7/25/86 ; Bird-watchers 8/28/87 ; Henry Chandler Cowles 11/6/98 ; Poplar Creek Preserve 9/6/91 ; Lichen scholar 11/3/95 ; Dinosaurs and birds 11/9/90 ; Roger Tory Peterson 8/16/96.

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