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1) Rare birds
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd. (stereo.), col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dave's marriage is dead and his restaurant just went belly up. Alphonse, Dave's neighbor, hatches a mad-yet-ingenious scheme in the hopes of saving his buddy's sagging fortune. After staging the sightings of an extremely rare bird in the neighborhood, bird watchers and hungry patrons the world over, flock to the area. But soon, Dave's restaurant is swimming in controversy.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Physical Desc
xiii, 268 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Every January 1, a quirky crowd storms out across North America for a spectacularly competitive event called a Big Year -- a grand, expensive, and occasionally vicious 365-day marathon of birdwatching. For three men in particular, 1998 would become a grueling battle for a new North American birding record. Bouncing from coast to coast on frenetic pilgrimages for once-in-a-lifetime rarities, they brave broiling deserts, bug-infested swamps, and some...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
ix, 326 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first person to see more than half the world’s 10,000 species of birds in one year.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xiv, 400 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Early in 2013 Neil Hayward was at a crossroads. He didn't want to open a bakery or whatever else executives do when they quit a lucrative but unfulfilling job. He didn't want to think about his failed relationship with "the one" or his potential for ruining a new relationship with "the next one." And he almost certainly didn't want to think about turning forty. And so instead he went birding. Birding was a lifelong passion. It was only among the birds...
Author
Series
Publisher
Point Blank
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A man falling to his death from a remote cliff sets off a high-stakes chase for Inspector Domenic Jejeune, who must protect his fugitive brother and pursue a maddening foe, while any misstep could bring down wrath from above on Domenic, his family, and the entire police force.
Author
Series
Publisher
Point Blank
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a senior attach©♭ with the Mexican Consulate is found dead alongside the director of a local bird sanctuary, many details pique Inspector Jejeune's interest, including a vacant field research position - a full-time job studying birds. Is this the escape from policing that he has been looking for? But first there's a murder to solve.
Author
Series
Birder murder mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Point Blank
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Newly appointed police inspector Domenic Jejeune doesn't mind ruffling a few feathers. Indeed his success has elevated him into a poster boy for the police. The problem is Jejeune doesn't really want to be a detective at all; he much prefers watching birds. Recently reassigned to the small Norfolk town of Saltmarsh, located in the heart of Britain's premier birding country, Jejeune's two worlds collide with the grisly murder of a prominent ecological...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Birder, environmentalist and activist Mya-Rose Craig is an international force. In her moving memoir, Birdgirl, she chronicles her mother's struggle with mental illness, and shares her passion for social justice and fierce dedication to preserving our planet. Meet Mya-Rose - otherwise known as "Birdgirl." In her words: "Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down, but a thread running through the pattern of my...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Christian Cooper is a self-described Blerd (Black nerd), an avid comics fan, and an expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. When birdwatching in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was engaged in the ritual that had been a part of his life since he was ten years old. But when a routine encounter with a dog-walker...
12) Welcome to subirdia: sharing our neighborhoods with wrens, robins, woodpeckers, and other wildlife
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.
Trish O’Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly two decades writing about justice as an investigative journalist, she'd never paid attention to nature. But then Hurricane Katrina destroyed her New Orleans home, sending her into an emotional tailspin.
Enter a scrappy cast of feathered characters—first...
14) The big year
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three men put their lives and careers on hold in an attempt to set a new record for the number of bird species spotted during a year.
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