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The Complete Language of Birds A Definitive & Illustrated History

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By: Randi Minetor(Author)
256 pages, 100+ colour & b/w illustrations
Publisher: Wellfleet Press
The Complete Language of Birds
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Expand your bird knowledge with this gorgeous encyclopedia of nearly 400 bird species around the world, unique for its inclusion of both their physical and mythological characteristics. If you're a nature lover who thrives on bird videos and photography, go beyond the scope of standard field guides with this comprehensive reference. Each entry of The Complete Language of Birds provides not only the bird's name and physical qualities, but also its history, symbolic meanings, and hidden properties from mythology, legends, and folklore.

Contents

Introduction
How to Use This Book
A-Z
Fanciful & Mythical Birds Around the World
Works Consulted
Acknowledgments
Photo Credits
About the Author
Index of Common Names
Index of Birds According to IUCN Classification
Index of Common Meanings
 

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Biography

Randi Minetor is the author of more than ninety books, with a focus on birds, nature, travel, and America's National Parks. Her books about birds include backyard birding, bird-friendly gardening, local and regional birding field guides, quick-reference guides to the birds, trees, and wildflowers of the mid-Atlantic states; and the natural history and evolution of birds. She writes for Birding and North American Birds magazines, and has been published in Bird Watcher's Digest. In addition to writing about birds, Randi is best known for her non-fiction books on deaths in Glacier, Zion, Acadia, Rocky Mountain, and Everglades national parks, as well as New Hampshire's Mount Washington and Maine's Mount Katahdin.

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By: Randi Minetor(Author)
256 pages, 100+ colour & b/w illustrations
Publisher: Wellfleet Press
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