Flight of the Bluebird (The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters Book 3)
Flight of the Bluebird (The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters Book 3)

Author: Kara LaReau

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2019-01-08

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1683353919

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Fasten your seat belts for some unexpected turbulence ahead, as Jaundice and Kale Bland are back for their final unintentional adventure! Now that they’ve returned from the Uncanny Valley to find their home in Dullsville in absolute shambles, the sisters are rescued by high-flying aviatrix Beatrix Airdale. This time, they’re jetting off (literally) to Egypt to uncover the mysteries of a magical scarab. By way of Casablanca and after foiling multiple attacks along the way (thanks to Jaundice’s nautical knot-tying skills and Kale’s super-sleuth powers of observation), the Bland Sisters are reunited with their parents. But it turns out that Mom and Dad aren’t as bland—or as “Bland”—as Jaundice and Kale remember. Thanks to their mother’s old archeology notebook, the Bland Sisters uncover their parents’ real identities and help them achieve victory in one final, family-filled adventure.

Bluebirds and Their Survival
Bluebirds and Their Survival

Author: Wayne H. Davis

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0813183227

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Bring more bluebirds into your life with this “lavishly illustrated [and] easy-to-read” how-to book (Manchester Enterprise). Bluebird expert Wayne H. Davis tells how to attract and care for this beautiful and gentle bird and offers solutions to the most common bluebird problems. Since bluebirds are almost entirely dependent on people for providing nesting sites, the book contains plans for erecting a structure that will attract bluebirds to a safe habitat. Instructions for building and maintaining a “bluebirds trail,” complete with drawings of various bluebirds houses and guards against predators, are also included. Davis shares his plans for his specially designed Kentucky Bluebird Box?a unique bird house attractive to the Eastern Bluebird but unsuitable for the bluebird’s rivals?as well a variety of other plans for using materials as inexpensive as milk cartons and scavenged pipes. A chapter by professional photographer Philippe Roca offers tips on photographing bluebirds. Whether you’re a beginning birder or an expert, Davis will help ensure your success in attracting and raising bluebirds. “To ensure the survival of bluebirds (a North American native threatened by sparrows and starlings), the authors instruct on how to build habitats, distribute winter feed, and foil enemies, both feathered and furred. Scientific research is cited to back the authors’ claims on the best diet, nesting locations, and shelters. Finally offered are photography lessons and specific birdhouse designs, from simple milk jugs to a sparrow-inhibiting nest box. Bird-watchers, earnest and casual, will benefit from this guide.” —Booklist

Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Bluebird

Author: Gary Ritchison

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780811727457

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A complete natural history of one of the best-loved birds in America--illustrated with brilliant color photos from some of the country's top nature photographers. It's all here: where the bluebird lives, what it eats, how it catches its food and communicates with other bluebirds, how it breeds and takes care of its young, and how humans have helped it survive in the wild.

A Place for Birds (Third Edition)
A Place for Birds (Third Edition)

Author: Melissa Stewart

Publisher: Holiday House

Published: 2024-08-20

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 1682636623

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The latest updated edition of this fact-filled, colorful look at the amazing world of birds includes two brand new illustrations and a call to action to protect these beautiful creatures. In simple yet informative language, A Place for Birds introduces young readers to the ways human action or inaction can affect bird populations and opens kids’ minds to a wide range of environmental issues. Describing various examples, the text provides an intriguing look at birds, at the ecosystems that support their survival, and at the efforts of some people to save them. At the end of the book, the author offers readers a list of things they can do to help protect these special creatures in their own communities.

Bluebird Seasons
Bluebird Seasons

Author: Mary Taylor Young

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2023-05-02

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1641608153

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"This wonderful book is faithful both in its witness to the world's beauty and to our need to act now to preserve something of that wonder and grace. It brings the bracing air of the Rockies to us all." —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature In this A Sand County Almanac for the twenty-first century, nature writer and zoologist Mary Taylor Young tells the story of the growing effects of climate change on her land in the pine-covered foothills of southern Colorado. Climate change wasn't yet on the public radar when Young and her husband bought their piece of the wild in 1995. They built a cabin, set up a trail of bluebird nest boxes, and began a nature journal of observations, delighting in the ceaseless dramas, joys, and tragedies that are the fabric of life in the wild. But changes greater than the seasonal cycles of nature became evident over time: increasing drought, wildfires, bears delaying hibernation, and the decline of familiar birds and appearance of new species. Their journal of sightings over twenty-five bluebird seasons, she realized, was a record of climate change happening, not in an Indonesian rainforest or on an Antarctic ice sheet but in their own natural neighborhood. Using the journal as a chronicle of change, Young tells a story echoed in everyone's lives and backyards. But it's not time to despair, she writes. It's time to act. Young sees hope in the human ability to overcome great obstacles, in the energy and determination of young people, and in nature's resilience, which the bluebirds show season after season.

Baby Birds
Baby Birds

Author: Julie Zickefoose

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2016-04-12

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0544207777

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If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in bird nests, or what happens after a fledgling leaves the nest, come along on Julie’s sensitive exploration of often-uncharted ornithological ground. This beautiful book is as much an art book as it is a natural history, something readers have come to expect from Julie Zickefoose. More than 400 watercolor paintings show the breathtakingly swift development of seventeen different species of wild birds. Sixteen of those species nest on Julie's wildlife sanctuary, so she knows the birds intimately, and writes about them with authority. To create the bulk of this extraordinary work, Julie would borrow a wild nestling, draw it, then return it to its nest every day until it fledged. Some were orphans she raised by hand, giving the ultimate insider’s glimpse into their lives. In sparkling prose, Julie shares a lifetime of insight about bird breeding biology, growth, and cognition. As an artist and wildlife rehabilitator, Julie possesses a unique skill set that includes sketching and painting rapidly from life as well as handling delicate hatchlings. She is uniquely positioned to create such an opus, and in fact, nothing like it has ever been attempted. Julie has many fans, and she will gain many more with this unparalleled work.

Birder's Handbook
Birder's Handbook

Author: Paul Ehrlich

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 820

ISBN-13: 0671659898

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On t.p.: A field guide to the natural history of North American birds : including all species that regularly breed north of Mexico.

Primitive Living and Wilderness Survival
Primitive Living and Wilderness Survival

Author: Terry Floyd

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-06-04

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 1365165930

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Primitive Earth living at its best. You will live and learn the old ways like the Native Americans did. You will experience the rapture of the wilderness.