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Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City
Leslie Day
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Description for Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City
Hardback. Once you enter the world of the city's birds, life in the great metropolis will never look the same. Illustrator(s): Smoke, Trudy. Num Pages: 384 pages, 415, 61 colour plates, 354 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; WNCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 133 x 26. Weight in Grams: 771.
Look around New York, and you'll probably see birds: wood ducks swimming in Queens, a stalking black-crowned night-heron in Brooklyn, great horned owls perching in the Bronx, warblers feeding in Central Park, or Staten Island's purple martins flying to and fro. You might spot hawks and falcons nesting on skyscrapers or robins belting out songs from trees along the street. America's largest metropolis teems with birdlife in part because it sits within the great Atlantic flyway where migratory birds travel seasonally between north and south. The Big Apple's miles of coastline, magnificent parks, and millions of ... Read more
Look around New York, and you'll probably see birds: wood ducks swimming in Queens, a stalking black-crowned night-heron in Brooklyn, great horned owls perching in the Bronx, warblers feeding in Central Park, or Staten Island's purple martins flying to and fro. You might spot hawks and falcons nesting on skyscrapers or robins belting out songs from trees along the street. America's largest metropolis teems with birdlife in part because it sits within the great Atlantic flyway where migratory birds travel seasonally between north and south. The Big Apple's miles of coastline, magnificent parks, and millions of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421416175
SKU
V9781421416175
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-50
About Leslie Day
Leslie Day is a New York City naturalist and the author of Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City and Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City, also published by Johns Hopkins. Dr. Day taught environmental science and biology for more than twenty years. Today, she leads nature tours in New York City Parks ... Read more
Reviews for Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City
'Take this guide wherever you go,' [Day] implores readers in the introduction. And we hope many do, since it reveals a New York we long to see, the wild, beautiful city of birds known to Audubon, Chapman, and Griscom.
Chuck Hagner
BirdWatching Magazine
An excellent guide for New York City residents. If you have any interest in ... Read more
Chuck Hagner
BirdWatching Magazine
An excellent guide for New York City residents. If you have any interest in ... Read more