Louder Birds
Louder Birds

Author: Angela Voras-Hills

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2020-02-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0807172995

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Angela Voras­-Hills’s Louder Birds, her debut collection of poetry, is a beautiful study of the natural world, motherhood, and the inherent desire for meaning. This collection of complex lyric poems holds a haunting absence at its center, an absence that is “impossible to navigate.” Yet Voras-Hills presses on, untangling the distinctions that surround her (human and animal, domestic and wild) with both bravery and respect. She writes, “The boundaries between home and the road / are insecure: it’s impossible to navigate this landscape. / We’ve all been in the presence of something dark / and have chosen not to seek shelter.” As the poet hones in on naming the void, her surroundings grow more threatening—but not once does she surrender or turn back. Voras-Hills’s poems are smart enough to know the distinctions themselves are tenuous at best, and wise enough to know that we must always pay our dues to the world beyond our door. Wondrous, ruminative, and revelatory, Louder Birds is a collection that is not to be missed.

How to Know the Birds
How to Know the Birds

Author: Ted Floyd

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1426220030

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"In this elegant narrative, celebrated naturalist Ted Floyd guides you through a year of becoming a better birder. Choosing 200 top avian species to teach key lessons, Floyd introduces a new, holistic approach to bird watching and shows how to use the tools of the 21st century to appreciate the natural world we inhabit together whether city, country or suburbs." -- From book jacket.

Ari and the Very Loud Bird!
Ari and the Very Loud Bird!

Author: Tina Capalbo

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2024-02-08

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 1039186580

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One noisy bird. One determined kiddo. Unpredictable consequences. Ari is a boisterous, nonbinary kiddo who loves to sleep in. But there’s a problem: one very loud songbird that likes to sit outside their window. When that bird wakes Ari up on Saturday morning, Ari is very annoyed. Then they get busy trying to solve the problem. Ari asks Dad how to get the songbird to stop being so noisy. Then, they come up with a clever idea and get some help from Mom. After all their hard work, Ari is determined to sleep in the next day. But when they attempt to stop the bird, things don’t work out as expected. In fact, things go terribly wrong, and what happens the next morning is very funny! For parents: As a young, nonbinary protagonist, Ari is a kid doing kid things, and their gender is simply identified in the story by their pronouns. It’s accepted as a simple matter of fact, without putting Ari’s gender under scrutiny. Their stable and loving family affirms that Ari is both safe and supported to be expressively and uniquely themselves. This story’s rhyme, meter, humour, and dialogue make it fun to read aloud, particularly at bedtime!

Welcome to Subirdia
Welcome to Subirdia

Author: John M. Marzluff

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0300210302

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Welcome to Subirdia presents a surprising discovery: the suburbs of many large cities support incredible biological diversity. Populations and communities of a great variety of birds, as well as other creatures, are adapting to the conditions of our increasingly developed world. In this fascinating and optimistic book, John Marzluff reveals how our own actions affect the birds and animals that live in our cities and towns, and he provides ten specific strategies everyone can use to make human environments friendlier for our natural neighbors. Over many years of research and fieldwork, Marzluff and student assistants have closely followed the lives of thousands of tagged birds seeking food, mates, and shelter in cities and surrounding areas. From tiny Pacific wrens to grand pileated woodpeckers, diverse species now compatibly share human surroundings. By practicing careful stewardship with the biological riches in our cities and towns, Marzluff explains, we can foster a new relationship between humans and other living creatures—one that honors and enhances our mutual destiny.

The Complete Birds of the World
The Complete Birds of the World

Author: Norman Arlott

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-09-07

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 0691193924

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"This is a book like no other--the only truly comprehensive, one-volume illustrated guide to all of the world's birds, covering the complete International Ornithological Congress World Bird List. Featuring more than 300 stunning large-format, full-color plates, this accessible and authoritative encyclopedic reference presents incredibly detailed, accurate, and beautiful paintings of more than 10,700 species by some of the world's best bird artists, led by the legendary Norman Arlott and Ber van Perlo. In addition, The Complete Birds of the World provides detailed but concise identification information about each species on facing pages--including facts about voice, habitat, and geographic distribution. The result is a visual and verbal feast that captures the astonishing variety of bird life around the planet--and that will be cherished by any birder." -- Amazon.

Here I Am!
Here I Am!

Author: Pauline Holdstock

Publisher: Biblioasis

Published: 2019-09-24

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1771963107

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A 49th Shelf Editors’ Pick MyMum said sometimes refugees don’t eat anything for days and days. Sometimes weeks and months so I am really lucky. I think she exaggerates. But I think she is right about the lucky bit. Or maybe not. Sometimes I forget that MyMum is dead. But that is probably better than remembering. When Frankie’s mother dies, he tells his teacher, of course. But he can't seem to get anyone at his school in southern England to listen to him. So the six-year-old comes up with a plan: go to France, find a police station, and ask the officers to ring his father. Thus a stowaway’s view of the sea opens Giller-nominated Pauline Holdstock’s eighth novel, narrated in turns by Frankie—who likes cheese, numbers, the sea when it’s pink and “smooth like counting,” and being alone when he feels bad—and a cast of characters that includes his worried Gran, his callous teacher, and his not-so-reliable father. Set in the summer of Annichka the Soviet space dog, Here I Am! is a mesmerizing story about the lucidity of children and the shortsightedness of adults.

Amazing Bird Facts and Trivia
Amazing Bird Facts and Trivia

Author: Roger Lederer

Publisher: Chartwell

Published: 2011-03-31

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0785827587

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" Amazing Bird Facts and Trivia" has over 400 nuggets of information drawn from nature, science, history, and mythology are sure to astound, amuse, and entertain.

23 Minutes
23 Minutes

Author: Aleksandr Jarid

Publisher: The Blue Print Works Limited

Published: 2022-09-26

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1739763386

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Have you ever wondered why you make certain choices in life and not others? How certain are you that the choices you make are indeed made by you and not some other force outside your conscious control? What may seem like an unimportant event at a moment in your day, may actually have profound consequences from there onwards which you will not understand for many years yet. It took 92 years for him to find the true meaning of 23 minutes of his life that altered his world. A world that involved the globe, power, death but ultimately 23 minutes of pure love and lemons.

Liberia
Liberia

Author: Paul Rozario

Publisher: Gareth Stevens

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780836823660

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Liberia was a colony for freed and freeborn African Americans for twenty-five years before becoming the first republic on the African continent in 1847. Today, Liberia is recovering from over twenty years of violence, which include seven years of civil war (1989-1996). From depleted iron ore mines to enviable diamond reserves, from indiscriminate logging to the world's largest rubber plantation, from the shrieking pepper bird to the docile pygmy hippopotamus, this book is a spirited investigation of the sharp contrasts that define the Liberian land and its people. Book jacket.

The Sound Approach to Birding
The Sound Approach to Birding

Author: Mark Constantine

Publisher: The Sound Approach

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 9081093312

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"Combining anecdote, scientific theory and practical experience the Sound Approach to birding is a step-by-step guide through tone, pitch, rhythm, reading sonagrams, acoustics, and using sounds to age and sex birds." -- Back cover.