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Nature watch Big Bend : a seasonal guide /

In this information-packed, month-to-month guide to the wildlife, plants, and natural events that define the seasonal cycles in Big Bend National Park, naturalists Lynne and Jim Weber offer a richly illustrated guide to the natural rhythms of this beautiful and remote region in far West Texas. If yo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Weber, Lynne, 1961- (Autor), Weber, Jim, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2017]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:W.L. Moody Jr. natural history series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • January
  • Undaunted ungulates
  • Fragmented forests
  • Leave it to beavers
  • Clever corvids
  • February
  • Roving ringtails
  • Ancient art
  • Furtive felines
  • A plethora of pteridophytes
  • March
  • Lanky lupines
  • Causing a stink
  • Return of the wanderer
  • Lilies in the desert
  • April
  • Bear aware
  • Chasing colimas
  • Spiny succulents
  • Beautiful buntings
  • May
  • Splitting hares
  • Scutes and scales
  • A parliament of owls
  • Armored arthropods
  • June
  • A sense of place
  • Riparian raptors
  • Amorous anurans
  • Damsels and dragons
  • July
  • Century plants
  • Borderland bats
  • Lubbers and quonkers
  • Ephemeral oases
  • August
  • Hummingbird haven
  • Wild woodland orchids
  • Jeweled nightwings
  • Traveling tarantulas
  • September
  • A mariposa medley
  • High-country wildflowers
  • Aridland aves
  • A lounge of lizards
  • October
  • Common columbids
  • Fish so fragile
  • Shadow tails
  • Liking lichens
  • November
  • Coyote courtship
  • Autumn blaze
  • Splendid sparrows
  • Texastronomy
  • December
  • Fossiliferous
  • A descent of woodpeckers
  • Telltale tracks
  • Wintry wonders
  • References
  • Index.