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Flight paths : a field journal of hope, heartbreak, and miracles with New York's bird people /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Author's Note; Part I: WHY WE SHOULD CARE ABOUT BIRDS; Prologue: Hemlock Lake, January 1976; Chapter 1 Nature's Winged Warning System; Chapter 2 All Those Trees Out There: Of Humans, Habitat, and Birds; Part II: THE RESCUERS; Chapter 3 The Bird That Owned the Sky: Tom Cade and the Peregrine Falcon; Chapter 4 The Great Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project; Chapter 5 The Last Pair of Eagles in New York: Hemlock Lake, 1976; Chapter 6 So Wild and Free: Bringing Bald Eagles Back to New York; Part III: WHERE WILL THEY BE IN ONE HUNDRED YEARS?
- Chapter 7 Toxic Summer: Loons, Lead, and Our Poisoned LakesChapter 8 Our Winter Visitors: Short-eared Owls and New York's Endangered Grasslands; Chapter 9 The Most Beautiful Sound on the Mountain: The World of the Bicknell's Thrush; Part IV: A BRIEF AND DANGEROUS LIFE; Chapter 10 Windows, Windmills, and Lights: The Many Ways We Kill Birds; Chapter 11 A Billion Dead Birds a Year? The Controversy about Cats; Part V: THE WORLD WE'VE MADE; Chapter 12 Comeback: The Astonishing Return of the Peregrine Falcon; Chapter 13 Up in the New York Skies: Bald Eagles Everywhere.
- Epilogue: Everything is ConnectedThe Rescuers: Where are They Now?; Common and Scientific Names of Bird Species, Cited in Order of Appearance in Text; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Index.