The Behavior of Texas Birds

Kent Rylander

• Paperback | Engels | Corrie Herring Hooks Series | nr. 53
• Whether it's the sudden, plunging dives of Brown Pelicans, the singing and aerial displays of Northern Mockingbirds, or the communal nesting of Purple... Lees meer

Birds of the Trans-Pecos

Jim Peterson

• Paperback | Engels | Corrie Herring Hooks Series | nr. 37
• The Trans-Pecos, that huge region of Texas west of the Pecos River, is richer in recorded bird species than all but three of the United States. Hundre... Lees meer

Birds and Other Wildlife of South Central Texas

Edward A Kutac

• Paperback | Engels | Corrie Herring Hooks Series | nr. 24
• Nature takes a surprising turn in the heart of Texas. The flat Gulf Coastal Plains, which become the fertile Blackland Prairies in Central Texas, end ... Lees meer

Antbirds and Ovenbirds

Alexander F Skutch

• Paperback | Engels | Corrie Herring Hooks Series | nr. 31
• Western Books Exhibition, Rounce and Coffin Club Antbirds and ovenbirds, two of the five largest families of birds found only in the Western Hemispher... Lees meer

Golden Wings

Pete Dunne

• Paperback | Engels | Corrie Herring Hooks Series | nr. 56
• Dubbed the "Bard of America's Bird-Watchers" by the Wall Street Journal, Pete Dunne knows birders and birding-instinctively and completely. He underst... Lees meer

Chasing Neotropical Birds

Bob Thornton, Vera Thornton

• Hardcover | Engels | Corrie Herring Hooks Series | nr. 61
• From Belize to Brazil, the forests of the American neotropics are home to an astonishing array of birds--over 3,700 different species, or nearly 40 pe... Lees meer

Birds of the Northwestern National Parks

Roland H Wauer

• Paperback | Engels | Corrie Herring Hooks Series | nr. 45
• From the bald eagle to the pileolated woodpecker, the varied and abundant birdlife of the northwestern national parks is as impressive as the parks' d... Lees meer

God's Country or Devil's Playground

• Paperback | Engels | Corrie Herring Hooks Series | nr. 54
• The dramatic desert landscapes of the Big Bend country along the Texas-Mexico border reminded historian Walter Prescott Webb of "an earth-wreck in whi... Lees meer

Peregrine Falcon

James H Enderson

• Paperback | Engels | Corrie Herring Hooks Series | nr. 61
• A superb success as a bird, combining great speed, aeronautical grace, and fearlessness...inhabitant of wild places, inaccessible cliffs, and skyscrap... Lees meer

Saving Migrant Birds

John Faaborg

• Paperback | Engels | Corrie Herring Hooks Series | nr. 55
• In the 1980s, numerous scientific surveys documented both declining bird populations, especially among Neotropical songbirds that winter in the tropic... Lees meer

Earth, Water, and Sky

Paul A Johnsgard

• Paperback | Engels | Corrie Herring Hooks Series | nr. 41
• "As I write this, I am sitting in a cabin at Cedar Point Biological Station in southwestern Nebraska.... The glorious elemental mixture of earth, wate... Lees meer

The Lizard Man Speaks

Eric R Pianka

• Paperback | Engels | Corrie Herring Hooks Series
• Alone on the endless red-sand desert in the Australian outback, tracking Varanus giganteus, the perentie lizard that grows to be more than six feet lo... Lees meer

Birds of Tropical America

Steven Hilty

• Paperback | Engels | Corrie Herring Hooks Series | nr. 62
• The guide to neotropical bird behavior that picks up where field guides leave off. Why are tropical birds like parrots and quetzals so much more color... Lees meer

Birds of Belize

H Lee Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Corrie Herring Hooks Series | nr. 57
• With nearly six hundred identified species of birds--and an average of five "new" species discovered annually--Belize is becoming a birding hotspot fo... Lees meer

Birds of the Texas Hill Country

Mark W. Lockwood

• Paperback | Corrie Herring Hooks Series
• Situated in the centre of a state renowned for its abundant and varied birdlife, the Texas Hill Country provides habitat for 419 resident and migrator... Lees meer

Tricholomas of North America

Alan E Bessette, Arleen R Bessette, William C Roody, Steven A Trudell

• Paperback | Engels | Corrie Herring Hooks Series
• More than 100 mushrooms in the genus Tricholoma have been reported in North America. Most are relatively large, showy mushrooms that grow on the groun... Lees meer

The Ruby-throated Hummingbird

June Osborne

• Hardcover | Corrie Herring Hooks Series
• This title paints a detailed portrait of the best-known hummingbird in the US, recounting its life cycle through accounts of a typical day in its life... Lees meer