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Title details for How to Know the Birds by Ted Floyd - Available

How to Know the Birds

The Art and Adventure of Birding

by Ted Floyd
Graham Winton
Audiobook
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Become a better birder with brief portraits of 200 top North American birds. This friendly, relatable book is a celebration of the art, science, and delights of bird-watching. How to Know the Birds introduces a new, holistic approach to bird-watching, by noting how behaviors, settings, and seasonal cycles connect with shape, song, color, gender, age distinctions, and other features traditionally used to identify species. With short essays on 200 observable species, expert author Ted Floyd guides us through a year of becoming a better birder, each species representing another useful lesson: from explaining scientific nomenclature to noting how plumage changes with age, from chronicling migration patterns to noting hatchling habits. Dozens of endearing pencil sketches accompany Floyd's charming prose, making this book a unique blend of narrative and field guide. A pleasure for birders of all ages, this witty book promises solid lessons for the beginner and smiles of recognition for the seasoned nature lover.

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  • Release date

    May 1, 2019

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781980038283
      • File size: 276130 KB
      • Duration: 09:35:16

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Sorting through all the new developments in birding for a newcomer takes an engaging, lightly humorous tone, and that's what Graham Winton brings to his narration. Ted Floyd starts with a trip to the park with his son, where their encounter with bush tits involves a smartphone, birding sites, and Facebook posts. Floyd breaks his introduction to birding into 200 small chunks. As each focuses on a specific bird, it also illustrates an aspect of birding, such as the phenomenon of the "Spark Bird," which is the one that begins a birder's fascination. Even as Winton describes how to use the internet on a birding trip, he conveys Floyd's fascination with nature's fliers. Listeners who've been curious after bird sightings will find a range of ways to dig deeper into birding. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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