Provides a guide for all the flora, fauna, and natural phenomena found along the coast of North America.
KEY FACTs Frost can form on the ground when the official temperature—measured above ground level—is above freezing. + fact: “Black frost" occurs when frigid air kills plants without visible frost. + fact: The growing season runs from ...
From Your Back Door to the Great Outdoors National Geographic National Geographic Society (U.S.) ... Palefore. head streaks are blue on most, white on birds in southern Rockies. + voice: Piercing shack, shack, shack + habitat: Forest ...
Waxwings ( Family Bombycillidae ) Red , waxy tips on secondary wing feathers are often indistinct , and sometimes they ... Species : 4 World ; 2 N.A. Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus L 8/4 " ( 21 cm ) Larger and grayer than Cedar ...
Sized for backpack or pocket, each 272-page volume highlights a single state or two and covers 125 species (each with a photograph and range map), with local expertise provided by experienced birders.
Profiles one hundred-sixty of the most common North American wildflowers and weeds, accompanied by a color photograph and illustration for easy identification.
A guide to people and portrait photography, featuring advice from photographers for "National Geographic" magazine, discussing composition, cameras and lenses, lighting, action, and other topics.
... 192, CP 1 longshore sediment transport, 13, 192 Lost Tribes, 24, CP 4 Luer, George, x, 18, 20, 22, 18 MacDonald, ... 138, 139, 101 Panama City Beach, 179, 184, 197 Pangea, 7, 9 Patterson, Cissy, 92,93, 108, 204, 93 Pelican Press, ...
An authoritative series of compact regional bird field guides surveys the diverse bird species in a variety of popular birding hotspots, along with helpful identification tips, detailed descriptions, full-color artwork and photographs, new ...
head pattern more poorly defined than Bachman's Botteri's Sparrow streaked upperparts slightly larger bill than Cassin's buffy, unstreaked rear flanks - - - juvenile texana ...rather ...
This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers. In the eight years since the publication of the first edition of A Field Guide for Science Writing, much about the world has changed.