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Author
Publisher
Cornell Lab Publishing Group
Pub. Date
20160412
Language
English
Description
GET TO KNOW BIRDS BY EAR WITH THIS ENGAGING, ONE-OF-A-KIND BOOK
Discover seventy-five unique birds from Eastern and Central North America as you enjoy their sounds at the touch of a buttonreproduced in high quality on the attached digital audio modulewhile reading vivid descriptions of their songs, calls, and related behaviors. Learn what Black-capped Chickadees are thinking as they give their unmistakable namesake call, or find out why many songbirds...
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Here are the best stories about our avian friends from the public radio show BirdNote, each brief essay illuminating the life, habits, or songs of a particular bird. Why do geese fly in a V-formation? Why are worms so good for you--if you're a robin? Which bird calls, "Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all?" From wrens that nest in cactuses to gulls that have a strange red dot on their bills--these digestible and fascinating bird stories are a...
Author
Publisher
Clavis
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Get up very early on a spring day. If you stay very still and listen closely, you'll hear a marvelous sound--the musicians of the Big Woods Orchestra are tuning up. Hoo-hoo! Tut-tut! Coo-coo! Frweet-weet! And then, the conductor announces it's time to begin. The birds of the Big Woods Orchestra welcome the morning in one voice!"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A month-by-month celebration of birdsong shares accessible insights by a leading scientific authority and presents the stories of such varieties as a pileated woodpecker, scrub-jays, and scarlet tanagers, complemented by CD recordings.
12) Froodle
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
One day, amidst the usual chirps, tweets, and caws, a little brown bird decides to try singing a new song and sets off an interesting reaction.
13) North American songbirds: identify the most common songbirds and hear their calls on your smartphone
Author
Series
Publisher
Cool Springs Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Provides information about the habits and habitats of North America's 100 most common birds. Includes information on how to attract birds as well as how to identify their songs with a QR code that links directly to a recording of each bird's song"--
15) Chirp!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this ode to individuality and a celebration of the joy of sound, each bird wakes up to a new day and gives voice to its own song.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Join birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma on a ten-week, ten-state bicycle journey as he travels with his son from the Atlantic to the Pacific, lingering and listening to our continent sing as no one has before. On remote country roads, over terrain vast and spectacular, from dawn to dusk and sometimes through the night, you will gain a deep appreciation for the natural symphony of birdsong many of us take for granted. Come along and marvel at how expressive...
17) Duet
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The life of a musically gifted bird changes forever after she discovers the music of Chopin and helps a talented young pianist solve the mystery of a long-lost Chopin piano.
18) Bird songs
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Throughout the day and into the night various birds sing their songs, beginning with the woodpecker who taps a pole ten times and counting down to the hummingbird who calls once.
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