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Alderfer, J. (Ed.) (2006). Complete Birds of North America. National Geographic Society
Armstrong, Edward. (1965) Bird Display and Behaviour. Dover Reprint..
Audubon Society. (1982). The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of Animal Life.
Bailey, F.M. (1902). Handbook of Birds of the Western United States. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Barton, roger. (1955). How to Watch Birds. McGraw Hill.
Beadle + Rising, Sparrows of the US and Canada
Bendire, North American Birds Vols. 1 + 2
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Wild Fowl Part One. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Wild Fowl Part Two. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Shore Birds, Part One. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Shore Birds, Part Two. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Blackbirds, Orioles Tanagers and Allies. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Cuckoos, Goatsuckers, Hummingbirds, and their Allies . Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Diving Birds. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Petrels and Pelicans and Their Allies. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Wood Warblers Part One. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Wood Warblers Part Two. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Cardinals, Grosbeaks, Buntings, Towhees, Finches, Sparrows and Allies Part One. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Cardinals, Grosbeaks, Buntings, Towhees, Finches, Sparrows and Allies Part Two Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Cardinals, Grosbeaks, Buntings, Towhees, Finches, Sparrows and Allies Part Three. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Marsh Birds . Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Jays, Crows and Titmice . Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Nuthatches, Wrens, Thrashers, and their Allies. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Woodpeckers. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Birds of Prey Part One. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Birds of Prey Part Two. . Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Flycatchers, Larks, Swallows, and Their Allies. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, and Their Allies. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Thrushes, Kinglets, and Their Allies. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Gulls and Terns. Dover Reprint.
Bent, A. C. (1963). Life Histories of North American Birds: Gallinaceous Birds. Dover Reprint
.Berry, R. J. (1977) Inheritance and Natural History
Birkhead, T.R. (1991). The Magpies- The ecology and behaviour of Black-billed and Yellow-billed Magpies. T & AD Poyser
Birkhead, T.R. (2009) The Wisdom of Birds. ( ) .
Blake, E.R. (1953). Birds of Mexico - A Guide for Field Identification. University of Chicago.
Blanchan, N. (1893). Bird Neighbors (With an introduction by John Burroughs.) Doubleday.
Blanchan, N. (1920). The Nature Library - Gamebirds. Doubleday.
Bond, J. (1974). Birds of the West Indies. Collins.
Bonta, Marcia Myers. (1991).Women in the Field - America's Pioneering Women Naturalists. College Station: Texas A & M University Press
Brandt, Herbert (1943) Alaska Bird Trails. The Bird Research Institute. .
Brooke, M. & Birkhead, T. (1991). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Ornithology. Cambridge University Press.
Bunn, D.S., Warburton, A.B., and Wilson R.D.S. (1982). The Barn Owl. T & AD Poyser
Burkhardt, Jr. R.W. (2005). Patterns of Behavior - Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology.
Burton, J.A. (Ed)(1973). Owls of the World. Dutton
Burgess, Thornton The Little Burgess Animal Book
Burgess, Thornton The Burgess Bird Book for Children. .
Burroughs, J. (1904). Wake Robin. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J. (1904). Winter Sunshine. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J. (1904). Birds and Poets. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J. (1904). Locusts and Wild Honey. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J. (1904). Pepacton. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J. (1904). Fresh Fields. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J. (1904). Signs and Seasons. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J. (1904). Indoor Studies. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J. (1904). Riverby. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J. (1904). Whitman. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J.(1904). The Light of Day. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J. (1904). Literary Values. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J. (1904). Far and Near. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J. (1905). Ways of Nature. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J. . (1908). Leaf and Tendrill. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J. (1912). Time and Change. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J. (1913). The Summit of the Years. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J. (1915). Breath of Life. New York: Houghton Mifflin. p. 174 - "To regard life as of non-natural origin puts it beyond the sphere of legitimate inquiry; to look upon it as of natural origin, or as bound in a chain of chemical sequences, as so many late biochemists do, is still to put it where our science cannot unlock the mystery."
Burroughs, J. (1916). Under the Apple Trees. New York: Houghton Mifflin. p. 236 - "There could be no life as we know it till the earth was ripe for it, till the waters were gathered together with the air swimming above them, and the crust of the earth cooled and became comparatively stable. And all these things were the result of the operation of irrefragable physical laws - not of the order or relation of parts that result from intelligent design, but of the equipoise and adjustment that come from the conflict of blind, irrational material forces."
Burroughs, J. (1919). Field and Study. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Burroughs, J. (1987). John James Audubon. The Overlook Press.
Burroughs, J. (1997). John Burroughs' America. Dover Press.
Burt, W. (2001). Rare and Elusive Birds. Universe Publishing.
Butcher, Russell. (2008). America's National Wildlife Refuges. Taylor Trade.
Byrkjedal, I. and Thompson, D. (1998). Tundra Plovers. T & AD Poyser
Calder, W.A., (1993). Rufous Hummingbird. The Birds of North America - Life Histories for the 21st Century.
Callicott, J.B. (Ed) (1987) A Companion to A Sand County Almanac. University of Wisconsin Press. "Leopold was not one of those throbbing Nature lovers who, as he said, "write bad verse on birchbark". He was a scientist, one of the first to profess the new science of ecology. As a forester and game manager he had seen for himself, in many places, the slow death of the land, and he knew that our unchecked effort to make everything safe and comfortable for our own species at the expense of all others could eventually destroy us along with the earth we depend on." Wallace Stegner, The Legacy of Aldo Leopold, in Companion to A Sand County Almanac.
Campbell B. & Lack, E. (eds). 1985. A Dictionary of Birds. Calton (Poyser) and Vermillion (Buteo
Chandler, Richard. 2009) Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia. Princeton University Press.
Chapman, F.M. (1899). Birds of Eastern North America. Appleton.
Chapman, F.M. (1914). The Warblers of North America. D. Appleton and Co.
Chapman, F.M. (1916). The Travels of Birds. Appleton.
Chapman, F.M. (1924) Bird Life. Appleton.
Chipley, R.M., Fenwick, G.H., Parr, M.J. and Pashley, D.N. (2003). The American Bird Conservancy Guide to the 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the United States. Random House
Chu, Miyoko (2007). Songbird Journeys. Walker.
Clark, W.S. and Wheeler, B.K. (1987). Peterson Field Guides - Hawks. Houghton Mifflin.
Cloud, P. (1970). Adventures in Earth History. W. H. Freeman and Co.
Coates, P. (1998). Nature - Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times. University of California Press.
Cokinos,C. (2000) Hope is the Thing with Feathers. Tarcher/Putnum.
Collar, N.J., Crosby, M.J., Stattersfield A.J. (1994). Birds to Watch 2 - The World List of Threatened Birds. Bird Life International.
Collar, N.J., and Andrew P. (1988). Birds to Watch. ICBP Technical Publication No. 8. Smithsonian.
Comstock, A. (1967). Handbook of Nature Study. Cornell. Originally published in 1911. Anna Botsford Comstock was unique in that she took school children outside for their nature lessons. This volume is unique in that it asks questions of students that they can only solve after doing their own research on the behavior of animals.
Connor, J. (1988). The Complete Birder - A Guide to Better Birding
Connor Season at the Point .
Cooksey and Weeks Birders Guide to Texas
Coues, E. (1874). Birds of the Northwest. Government Printing Office
Coues, E. (1883). New England Birdlife. Being a Manual of New England Ornithology (Vols. 1 and 2). Lee and Shepard Publishers
Coues, E. Field and General Ornithology (1890) MacMillan and Co. .
Craighead, J.J. and Craighead, F.C. Jr. (1969). Hawks, Owls and Wildlife. Dover Reprint.
Croker, Robert A. Stephen Forbes and the Rise of American Ecology . (2001) Smithsonian Press
Croxall, J.P., Evans, P.G.H. and Schreiber, R.W. (1984). Status and Conservation of the World's Seabirds. ICBP Technical Publication No. 2.
Cruickshank, A.D. and Cruickshank, H.G. (1958).1001 Questions Answered about Birds. Dover.
Cruickshank, A.D. (1960). A Pocket Guide to Birds. Washington Square Press Book.
Curson, J. , Quinn, D. and Beadle, D. (1994). Warblers of the Americas. Houghton Mifflin.
Cutright, N.J., Harriman, B.R. and Howe, R.W. (2006). Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Society for Ornithology.
Daily, G.C. (Ed) (1997). Nature's Services - Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems. Island Press. p. 3 - "Ecosystem services are the conditions and processes through which natural ecosystem, and the species that make them up, sustain and fulfill human life. They maintain biodiversity and the production of ecosystem goods, such as seafood, forage, timber, biomass fuels, natural fiber, and many pharmaceuticals, industrial products, and their precursors."
Davis, L.I. (1972). A Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Central America. Texas University Press.
Davis, W.A. and Russell, S.M. (1990). Birds in Southeastern Arizona. Tucson Audubon Society.
Dawson, W.L. (1923). The Birds of California in Three volumes. South Moulton Company
Dee, Tim. (2009) A Year on the Wing. Free Press
Dorst, Jean. (1974) The Life of Birds Vol. 1,2. Columbia University Press
Dunn, J.L. and Garrett, K. (1997). Peterson Field Guides - Warblers. Houghton Mifflin.
Dunn, J.L and Blom, E.A.T. (1987). Field Guide to the Birds of North America. National Geographic Society.
Dunne, P., Sibley, D. and Sutton, C. (1988). Hawks in Flight. Houghton Mifflin.
Edwards, E.P. (1968). Finding Birds in Mexico. Ernest P. Edwards.
Elphic, Birds - The Art of Ornithology
Ennor, H.R. (1991). Birds of the Tri-Cities and Vicinity. Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society.
Ehrlich, P.R., Dobkin, D.S., and D. Wheye (1988). The Birder's Handbook - A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds. Fireside Books.
Ehrlich, P.R., Dobkin, D.S., and Darryl Wheye (1992). Birds in Jeopardy. Stanford University Press.
Evanich, Jr. J.E. (1990). The Birder's Guide to Oregon. Portland Audubon Society.
Evans, P.R., Goss-Custard, J.D. & Hale, W.G. (1984). Coastal waders and wildfowl in winter. Cambridge University Press.
Evens, J.G. (2005). Introduction to California Birdlife. Text by Jules Evens, photography by Ian Tait. University of California Press. I got to know Jules Evens a bit while I lived in California and when I saw that he had written this book I was very excited. When I read the book I was not disapointed. This introduction to birds takes geology, and ecosystem knowledge into account as a way of introducing the birds of this interesting state. I think that it sets new standards on what to expect from a natural history book. I learned so much from it.
Evens, J.G. (1998). The Natural History of the Point Reyes Peninsula. Point Reyes National Seashore Association.
Fawks, E. (1975). Bird Finding in Illinois. Illinois Audubon Society.
Feduccia, A. (1980). The Age of Birds. Harvard University Press
Farris, Allen. 1977). The Ring-necked Pheasant in Iowa. Iowa Conservation Commission.
Flader, S.L. (1974). Thinking Like a Mountain - Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude toward Deer, Wolves and Forests. University of Wisconsin Press
Forbush, E.H. (1907). Useful Birds and their Protection. Massachusetts Board of Agriculture.
Forbush, E.H. (1916). A History of the Game Birds, Wild-Fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and Adjacent States. Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture.
Forbush, E.H. (1925). Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States, Vols. 1-3.
Forbush, E.H. and May, J.R. (1955). A Natural History of American Birds of Eastern and Central North America. Bramhall House.
Frankel, O.H. & Soule, M.E. (1981). Conservation and Evolution. Cambridge University Press.
Gallagher, Tim. (2008). Falcon Feveer. Houghton Mifflin.
Gessner, D. (2001). Return of the Osprey. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Gilliard, E.T. (1958). Living Birds of the World. Doubleday
Gilliard, E.T. (1969) Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds. Natural History Press
Goodfellow, Shakespeare's Birds .
Gould, J.L. & Gould, C.G. (1994) The Animal Mind. Scientific American Library.
Gould, S.J. (1977). Ever Since Darwin. Norton
Gould, S.J. (1980). The Panda's Thumb. Norton
Gould, S.J. (1981). The Mismeasure of Man. Norton.
Gould, S.J. (1977). Ontogeny and Phyogeny. Harvard.
Gould, S.J. (1985)The Flamingo's Smile. Norton
Grant, P.J. (1982). Gulls - a guide to identification. T & AD Poyser
Gretchen, C. Daily (Ed.) (1997). Nature's Services - Societal Dependence on Natural Resources. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Griffin, D.R. (1964). Bird Migration. Doubleday.
Grove, N. (1996). Birds of North America. Beaux Arts Editions.
Grinnell, J. (1915). A Distributional List of the Birds of California. Cooper Ornithological Club.
Grinnell, J. (1924). A Bibliography of California Birds. Cooper Ornithological Club.
Grinnell, J., and Alden, H.M. (1944). The Distribution of the Birds of California. Cooper Ornithological Club.
Grinnell, J., Bryant, H.C., Storer, T.I. (1918). The Game Birds of California. University of California Press.
Grinnell, J., (1943). Joseph Grinell's Philosophy of Nature. University of California Press.
Griscom, Ludlow. (1950). Audubon's Birds of America
Grossman, M.L. (1964). Birds of Prey of the World. Potter.
Grosvenor, G. and Wetmore, A. (1939). The Book of Birds (In Two Volumes). National Geographic Society.
Grub, T.C. (1986). Beyond Birding - Field Projects for Inquisitive Birders. The Boxwood Press.
Gruson, E.S. (1972). Words for Birds. Quadrangle.
Guggisberg,C.A.W. (1980). Birds of East Africa. Mount Kenya Sundries Lt
Gunter, Pete. (1993). The Big Thicket - An Ecological Reevaluation. University of North Texas Press.
Gustafson, A. (1981). Burrowing Birds. Lothrop.
Guttman, Burton. (2008). Finding Your Wings. Houghton Mifflin. Includes Birdcentral.net in its list of references.
Hall, H.M. (1960). A Gathering of Shore Birds. Devin-Adair Compan
Halle, Louis. (1989) The Appreciation of Birds. John Hopkins
Hardy, Alister, Sir (1976). The Open Sea: II Fish and Fisheries. .
Harris, J.T. (1979). The Peregrine Falcon in Greenland - Observing an Endangered Species. University of Missouri Pres
Harrison, Colin (2002) Birds of the World. Smithsonian Press
Heinrich, Bernd. (1999) Mind of the Raven. Harper Perennial
Heinroth, Oska and Katharina. The Birds. (1958) University of Michigan Press
Herklots, G.A.C, (1961) The Birds of Trinidad & Tobago. Collins. .
Hoffman, R. (1927). Birds of the Pacific States. Houghton Mifflin. I was given this book in 1959 as I prepared to move with my family to the west. It is a classic and written in a very wonderful style. This is Hoffman's introduction to the Marbled Murrelet whose nest was not discovered until the 1970s. "An especial interest always attaches to a bird which can hide its nest and eggs from man's indefatigable search. the Black Swift gave up its secret in 1901; the Wandering Tattler and the Surf-bird have been run down in the mountains of Alaska; of all the birds occurring commonly on our coast only the Marbled Murrelet still keeps its breeding haunts a mystery. We know that it remains off our coast in summer even as far south as northern California. The rocky islands and steep cliffs where its relatives breed have been searched again and again but in vain. There is strong suspicion that unlike the other Murrelets it breeds inland, perhaps far up the sides of mountains. Some one has a tremendous thrill before him when he first takes a Marbled Murrelet off her eggs."
Hoyo, J., Elliot, A. and Sargatal, J. Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 1 - Ostrich to Ducks
Hoyo, J., Elliot, A. and Sargatal, J. Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 2 - New World Vultures to Guineafowl
Hoyo, J., Elliot, A. and Sargatal, J. Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 3 - Hoatzin to Auks
Hoyo, J., Elliot, A. and Sargatal, J. Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 4 - Sandgrouse to Cuckoos
Hoyo, J., Elliot, A. and Sargatal, J. Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 5 - Barn-owls to Hummingbirds
Hoyo, J., Elliot, A. and Sargatal, J. Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 6 - Mousebirds to Hornbills
Hudson, W.E. (ed).(1991) Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity. Island Press.
Hudson, W.H. (1919). The Book of a Naturalist. George Doran Company.
Hume, E.E. (1942). Ornithologists of the United States Army Medical Corps, Vol. 1. The Johns Hopkins Press.
Hunt, C. (1974). Natural Regions of the United States and Canada. W.H. Freeman and Co.
Inskipp, T. and Inskipp, C. (1985) A Guide to the Birds of Nepal. Tanager Books
Jaeger, E.C. (1965). The California Deserts. Stanford University Press.
Jaeger, E.C. (1961). Desert Wildlife. Stanford University Press.
Job, H. (1923). Propagation of Wild Birds. Doubleday, Page and Company. The author is noted as an Economic Ornithologist in Charge of the Department of Applied Ornithology.
Johnsgard, P.A. (1981). The Plovers, Sandpipers, and Snipes of the World. University of Nebraska Press.
Johnsgard, P.A. (1974). Song of the North Wind. University of Nebraska Press.
Johnsgard, P.A. (1981). Those of the Gray Wind. University of Nebraska Press.
Johnsgard, P.A. (1978). Ducks, Geese, Swans of the World. University of Nebraska Press.
Johnsgard, P.A. (1987). Diving Birds of North America. University of Nebraska Press.
Johnson, C. (1922). John Burroughs Talks. Houghton Mifflin.
Jonsson, Lars. (2006). Birds of Europe with North Africa and the Middle East. Helm.
Kaufman, K. (2000) Kingbird Highway. Mariner Books.
Kaufman, K. (2000) Lives of North American Birds. Houghton Mifflin.
Kaufman, K. (1990) Peterson Field Guides - Advanced Birding. Houghton Mifflin.
Kaufman, K. (2000) Birds of North America. Houghton Mifflin.
Keen, Sam. (1997). Sightings - Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds. Chronicle Press
Kent, thomas (1996) Birds in Iowa. Published by the Authors.
Koenig, W.D. and Mumme, R.L. (1987). Cooperatively Breeding Acorn Woodpecker. Princeton University Press
Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe .
Kroodsma, D. (2005). The Singing Life of Birds - The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 42 - "Listen to any bird sing, and one of the first questions that comes to mind is where he got his song. This is the question that compelled me to study birdsong, and it's the question that has fascinated many others, too, especially for songbirds."
Kroodsma, D. (2009). Birdsong by the Seasons. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Kruckeberg, A.R. (1991). The Natural History of Puget Soound Country. The University of Washington Press.
Kruuk, H. (2003). Niko's Nature. Oxford.
Kutac, E.A. (1989). Birder's Guide to Texas. Lone Star Books.
Leahy, C. (1982). The Birdwatcher's Companion. Hill and Wang. An encyclopedic handbook of North American birdlife. A good introduction to ornithology. Provides definitions for such terms as Bergmann's Rule to defining the origins of the name Whimbrel.
Leopold, Aldo. (1972) A Sand County Almanac. Oxford Press.
Leopold, A.S. (1972). Wildlife of Mexico - The Game Birds and Mammals. University of California Press.
Leopold, A.S. (1985). Wild California. University of California Press.
Lorbiecki, M. (1996). Aldo Leopold - A Fierce Green Fire. Falcon Press
MacArthur, R.H., Wilson, E.O. (1967). The Theory of Island Biogeography. Princeton University Press.
MacArthur, R.H., (1972). Geographical Ecology. Princeton University Press. From the Introduction: "To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts, and to do the science of geographical ecology is to search for patterns of plant and animal life that can be put on a map. The person best equipped to do this is the naturalist who loves to note changes in bird life up a mountainside, or changes in plant life from mainland to island, or changes in butterflies from temperate to tropics. But not all naturalists want to do science; many take refuge in nature's complexity as a justification to oppose any search for patterns. This book is addressed to those who do wish to do science. Doing science is not such a barrier to feeling or such a dehumanizing influence as is often made out. It does not take the beauty from nature. The only rules of scientific method are honest observations and accurate logic. To be great science it must also be guided by judgment, almost an instinct, for what is worth studying. No one should feel that honesty and accuracy guided by imagination have any power to take away nature's beauty."
MacRoberts, M.H. and MacRoberts, B.R. (1976). Social Organization and Behvavior of the Acorn Woodpecker in Central Coastal California. American Ornithologists' Union
Marzluff, John. (2005) In the Company of Crows and Ravens. Yale. .
Matthysen, Erik. (1998). The Nuthatches. T & AD Poyser.
Matthiessen, Peter. (1959). Wildlife in America Viking Press
Matthiessen, Peter (1967) The Shorebirds of North America. “The combination of abilities and experience doubtless differs from species to species. Certain sedentary birds have no homing ability whatsoever, while certain seabirds perform feats of navigation which confound the theorists, especially those who have left no place for metaphysics. None of the theories or combinations of theories presently considered reasonable, provides an explanation of how a shearwater released in Venice, on a sea that none of its species ever visit, could and did return on an unfamiliar east-west bearing, across the European land mass in all likelihood, to its nesting ledge on a sherry in the Irish Sea, not in the season following but in twelve and a half days."
Matthiessen, Peter (1973). The Wind Birds. Viking.
Matthiessen, Peter (2001). The Birds of Heaven. North Point Press
Matthiessen, Peter (1972). The Tree Where Man Was Born. Crescent.
Mayr, E. (1945). Birds of the Southwest Pacific. The MacMillan Company.
Mayr, E. (1970 ) Population, Species, and Evolution. Harvard Press
Mayr, E. ( 1982) The Growth of Biological Thought. Harvard Press
Mayr, E. ( 1991) One Long Argument. Harvard Press
Mayr, E. (1976) Evolution and the Diversity of Life. Harvard Press
Mayr, E. (1988) Toward a New Philosophy of Life, Harvard Press
McKibben, Bill (Ed) (2008) American Earth. The Library of America
McKibben, Bill (Ed) (2008). The End of Nature
Merriam, Florence. (1898). Birds of Village and Field. Houghton Mifflin.
Mowet, Farley (1983). Never Cry Wolf. Bantam Paperback.
Nelcon, Bryan (1978) The Gannet. Buteo Books.
Nero, R.W. (1984). Redwings. Smithsonian Press
Newton, I. (1979). Population Ecology of Raptors. Buteo Books.
Newton, I. (1998). Population Limitation in Birds. Academic Press.
Newton, Julianne L. (2008). Aldo Leopold's Odyssey. Island Press.
Nice, M. (1964) Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow (Vol. 1 & 2). Dover Reprint
Norton, Why Preserve Natural Variety
Nuttall, thomas (1903). Birds of the united States. Little Brown and Company. .
O'Brien, M. , Crossley, R. and Karlson, K. (2006). The Shorebird Guide. Houghton Mifflin.
Odum, E. P. Fundamentals of Ecology (Second Edition). Philadelphia. W. B. Saunders Company, 1959
Olson, Sigurd The Singing Wilderness.
Orians, G.H. (1985). Blackbirds of the Americas. University of Washington Press.
Orians, G.H. (1980). Marsh-nesting Blackbirds. Princeton University Press.
Paulson, D. (1993). Shorebirds of the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press.
Paulson, D. (1993). Shorebirds of North America. Princeton University Press
Peck. Robert. (1982) A Celebration of Birds - The Life and Art of Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Walker and Company.
Peterson, R.T. (1949). How to Know the Birds. New American Library.
Peterson, R.T. (1990) Peterson Field Guides Western Birds. Houghton Mifflin.
Peterson, R.T. (1973) Peterson Field Guides Mexican Birds. Houghton Mifflin.
Peterson, R.T. (1980) Peterson Field Guides Eastern Birds. Houghton Mifflin.
Peterson, R.T., Fisher, J. (1955). Wild America. Houghton Mifflin Company
Peterson, R.T., Mountfort, G., Hollom, P. and Geroudet, P. (1971). Guide des oiseaux d'Europe.
Peterson, R.T. , Mountfort, G., Hollom, P.A.D. (1974). A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe. Houghton Mifflin.
Peterson, R.T. (1963) A Field Guide to the Birds of Texas. Houghton Mifflin.
Pettingill, O.S. (1953). A Guide to Bird Finding. Oxford University Press.
Porter, E. (1972) Birds of North America - A Personal Selection. Dutton.
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