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By Leslie Day,Don Riepe,Trudy Smoke,Beth Bergman

ISBN-10: 1421416174

ISBN-13: 9781421416175

ISBN-10: 1421416182

ISBN-13: 9781421416182

Look round ny, and you’ll most likely see birds: wooden geese swimming in Queens, a stalking black-crowned night-heron in Brooklyn, nice horned owls perching within the Bronx, warblers feeding in crucial Park, or Staten Island’s crimson martins flying from side to side. you could spot hawks and falcons nesting on skyscrapers or robins belting out songs from bushes alongside the road.

America’s biggest city teems with birdlife partially since it sits in the nice Atlantic flyway the place migratory birds commute seasonally among north and south. the large Apple’s miles of beach, marvelous parks, and hundreds of thousands of timber allure dozens of migrating species each year and also are domestic year-round to rankings of resident birds.

There is not any greater approach to determine and know about New York’s birds than with this finished box advisor from ny urban naturalist Leslie Day. Her ebook will fast train you what every one species feels like, the place they construct their nests, what they consume, the sounds in their songs, what time of 12 months they seem within the urban, the shapes and colours in their eggs, and the place within the 5 boroughs you will discover them—which is usually locally you name domestic. the masses of gorgeous pictures by means of Beth Bergman and beautiful illustrations through Trudy Smoke may help you determine the 90 avian species quite often noticeable in long island. when you input the realm of the city’s birds, existence within the nice city won't ever glance the same.

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Go searching long island, and you’ll most likely see birds: wooden geese swimming in Queens, a stalking black-crowned night-heron in Brooklyn, nice horned owls perching within the Bronx, warblers feeding in important Park, or Staten Island’s red martins flying backward and forward. chances are you'll spot hawks and falcons nesting on skyscrapers or robins belting out songs from timber alongside the road.

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