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The Goshawk

Written by T.H. White
Introduction by Marie Winn


Format: eBook
On Sale: April 25, 2012
Price: $16.95

What is it that binds human beings to other animals? T. H. White, the author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. A particular sentence—”the bird reverted to a feral state”—seized his imagination, and, White... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Sixth Edition
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Sixth Edition
Written by Jon L. Dunn and Jonathan Alderfer
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781426208287
Our Price: $27.95
 Quantity: 1 
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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Sixth Edition

Written by Jon L. Dunn and Jonathan Alderfer


Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $27.95

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 6th Edition contains the most all-new material since the first edition was published more than 25 years ago. The latest edition will include 300 new art figures; unique subspecies maps never before seen in a field guide; extensive migration information overlaid... Read more >
Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Headaches?
And Other Bird Questions You Know You Want to Ask
Written by Mike O'Connor


Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $12.00

In 1983, Mike O'Connor opened the Bird Watcher's General Store on Cape Cod, which might well have been the first store devoted solely to birding in the United States. Since that time he has answered thousands of questions about birds, both at his store and while walking down the aisles of... Read more >
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Soaring with Fidel
Soaring with Fidel
Written by David Gessner
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780807085790
Our Price: $15.00
 Quantity: 1 
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Soaring with Fidel
An Osprey Odyssey from Cape Cod to Cuba and Beyond
Written by David Gessner


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $15.00

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"As Gessner pursues [the ospreys] down the Eastern Seaboard and even into Cuba with a BBC documentary team at his heels, a lively tale of fish-eating raptors, broken embargoes and a nail-biting race to the finish line ensues . . . Gessner finds his Mecca not in... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Headaches?
Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Headaches?
Written by Mike O'Connor
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780807085745
Our Price: $14.95
 Quantity: 1 
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Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Headaches?
And Other Bird Questions You Know You Want to Ask
Written by Mike O'Connor


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2007
Price: $14.95

In 1983, Mike O'Connor opened the Bird Watcher's General Store on Cape Cod, which might well have been the first store devoted solely to birding in the United States. Since that time he has answered thousands of questions about birds, both at his store and while walking down the aisles of... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Soaring with Fidel
An Osprey Odyssey from Cape Cod to Cuba and Beyond
Written by David Gessner


Format: eBook
On Sale: April 1, 2007
Price: $13.95

One September, after writing about ospreys on Cape Cod for years, David Gessner impulsively decided to follow the birds on their annual migration. Each fall these graceful raptors, with wingspans of up to six feet, cruise over the eastern United States, then soar over Cuba and winter in South America, returning... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.
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