That Quail, Robert

James Prosek

Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish

From New Zealand to the Sargasso, Prosek delivers a detailed exploration of the world's most mysterious fish.

Tom Jackson

Animals, Birds & Fish of North America, the Illustrated Encyclopedia of: A Natural History and Identification Guide to the Captivating Indigenous Wild

The ultimate illustrated guide and identifier to the mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds and fish of the United States and Canada, with more than 1000 artworks, maps and colour photographs.

Rebecca Heisman (Author)

Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration

1,"Illuminating. . . . Flight Paths does what only the best science books do: It adds to our knowledge of the world without diminishing its wonder."--Wall Street JournalThe captivating, little-known true story of a group of scientists and the methods and technology they developed to uncover the secrets of avian migration.For the past century, scientists and naturalists have been steadily unravelling the secrets of bird migration. How and why birds navigate the skies, traveling from continent to continent--flying thousands of miles across the earth each fall and spring--has continually fascinated the human imagination, but only recently have we been able to fully understand these amazing journeys. Although we know much more than ever before, even the most enthusiastic birdwatcher may not know how we got here, the ways that the full breadth of scientific disciplines have come together to reveal these annual avian travels.Flight Paths is the never-before-told story of how a group of migration-obsessed scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries engaged nearly every branch of science to understand bird migration--from where and when they take off to their flight paths and ...