Birds of an Iowa dooryard /

Now available in paperback with a new foreword by Marcia Myers Bonta, Birds of an Iowa Dooryard contains Althea Sherman's often caustic, always careful studies of the phoebes, wrens, cuckoos, rails, catbirds, owls, flickers, and many other species that inhabited her Acre of Birds in northern Io...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sherman, Althea R. (Althea Rosina), 1853-1943
Other Authors: Pierce, Fred J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, ©1996.
Series:Bur oak book.
Subjects:
Birds > Iowa.
Birds > Behavior > Iowa.
Oiseaux > Iowa.
Oiseaux > Mœurs et comportement > Iowa.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Ornithology.
NATURE > Birdwatching Guides.
NATURE > Animals > Birds.
NATURE > General.
Birds
Birds > Behavior
Iowa
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Johnson County Songbird Project; Althea Rosina Sherman: Ornithologist of an Iowa Dooryard; Editor's Note; Foreword to the 1952 Edition; I. Watching the Birds of Our Dooryard; II. Feeding Winter Birds; III. The Home Life of the Chimney Swift; IV. Birds Near at Hand; V. The Phoebe; VI. The Nest Life of the Western House Wren; VII. The Cuckoos; VIII. Habits of the Short-billed Marsh Wren; IX. Notes on the Rails; X. Eleven Days in the Life of a Catbird; XI. The Strange Flycatcher; XII. The Nest Life of the Sparrow Hawk; XIII. Nest Life of the Screech Owl.

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