Listening to a Continent Sing : Birdsong by Bicycle from the Atlantic to the Pacific /

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Join birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma on a ten-week, ten-state bicycle journey as he travels with his son from the Atlantic to the Pacific, lingering and listening to our continent sing as no one has before. On remote country roads, over terrain vast and spectacular, from dawn to dusk and sometimes t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kroodsma, Donald (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Birdsongs.
Bird watching.
Bicycle touring.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Ornithology.
NATURE > Birdwatching Guides.
NATURE > Animals > Birds.
Cyclotourisme > Amerique du Nord.
Oiseaux > Observation.
Oiseaux chanteurs > Moeurs et comportement.
Oiseaux > Chant.
Bicycle touring > North America.
Songbirds > Behavior.
North America.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • How to Listen Using the QR Codes
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • 1. Beginnings
  • 2. Peace, and War
  • 3. Lemonade
  • 4. Blue Ridge Dawn
  • 5. A Virginia High
  • 6. Appalachia
  • 7. Boone Country
  • 8. A Ride in Heaven
  • 9. Laid Up
  • 10. On the Road Again
  • 11. Dawn Sweeps the Shawnee
  • 12. The Ozarks
  • 13. A Prairie Gem
  • 14. Kansas Oceans
  • 15. Shortgrass Prairie
  • 16. Western Birds
  • 17. Riding the Rockies
  • 18. Sage and Song
  • 19. Hello, Wyoming
  • 20. The Oregon Trail
  • 21. Grand Tetons
  • 22. Into the Fire
  • 23. Caterpillars Marching
  • 24. Chief Joseph Pass
  • 25. Lewis and Clark
  • 26. Pacific Islands Incoming
  • 27. Ascending into Oregon
  • 28. Geological Chaos
  • 29. Over the Cascades
  • 30. A Homecoming
  • 31. Land's End
  • Epilogue-- Where Are They Now?
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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