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    Beaks, Bones and Bird Songs: How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 442min
    When we see a bird flying from branch to branch happily chirping, it is easy to imagine they lead a simple life of freedom, flight, and feathers. What we don't see is the arduous, life-threatening challenges they face at every moment. Beaks, Bones and Bird Songs guides the listener through the myriad, and often almost miraculous, things that birds do every day to merely stay alive. Like the goldfinch, which manages extreme weather changes by doubling the density of its plumage in winter. Or urban birds, which navigate traffic through a keen understanding of posted speed limits. In engaging and accessible prose, Roger Lederer shares how and why birds use their sensory abilities to see ultraviolet, find food without seeing it, fly thousands of miles without stopping, change their songs in noisy cities, navigate by smell, and much more. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Constant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/007738/bk_tant_007738_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Red Bird in a Brown Bag
    A Red Bird in a Brown Bag ab 51.49 € als pdf eBook: The Function and Evolution of Colorful Plumage in the House Finch. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    The Birds of Canada
    The Birds of Canada ab 25.99 € als Taschenbuch: With Descriptions of their Plumage Habits Food Song Nests Eggs Times of Arrival and Departure. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,
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    The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, July-August 2003 (Unabridged Selections), Hörbuch, Digital, 411min
    Take Audible's July/August Fantasy & Science Fiction collection with you to the beach. It's got rich humor galore, as well as a couple of particularly evocative futures which offer new perspective on these troubled times.We begin with the latest installment of Paul Di Filippo's Plumage from Pegasus column, "Write What You Sell," providing a new twist on literature and publishing.Then, Al Michaud takes us Down East for the annual clambake in "Clem Crowder's Catch," a Maine horror story that will elicit both shivers and laughs.Benjamin Rosenbaum's surreal "Red Leather Tassels" introduces us to the sex life of a very special woodpecker. "Repository" by Carol Emshwiller is an edgy and powerful glimpse into the mind of "the universal soldier." Harlan Ellison reads Harvey Jacobs' existential fish story, "Spawning," with comic restraint.From the pen of the wonderful Pat Murphy comes "Dragon's Gate," a tale about a prince, a minstrel and, of course, a dragon, that sets the entire tradition of such stories on its ear.And finally, Adam-Troy Castro's stunning novella "The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes," explores the nature and purposes of art, humanity, and perhaps life itself. Language: English. Narrator: Arte Johnson, Stefan Rudnicki, Jason Cole, Harlan Ellison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/000015/bk_adbl_000015_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Biological similarities between Chilean Tapaculos
    Biological similarities between Chilean Tapaculos ab 48.99 € als Taschenbuch: Closer similarities among phenotype of the plumage and ecological traits in undergrowth-dwelling birds of Chilean Rhinocryptidae. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Biologie,
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    Game Birds And Shooting Sketches
    Game Birds And Shooting Sketches ab 23.99 € als Taschenbuch: Illustrating The Habits Modes Of Capture Stages Of Plumage And The Hybrids And Varieties (1894). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Romane & Erzählungen,
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    Penguin the Magpie: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 109min
    Penguin the Magpie is an extraordinary true story of recovery, hope, and courage as one injured bird and her human family learn to heal and celebrate life, told in a captivating narrative by New York Times best-selling author of The Blue Day Book, Bradley Trevor Greive. People around the world have fallen in love with Penguin the Magpie, a global social media sensation, and her adventures with her human family. But there is far more to Penguin's story than meets the eye. It all begins when Sam, Cameron Bloom's wife, suffers a near fatal fall that leaves her paralyzed and deeply depressed. One of their three sons, reeling from the tragic accident, discovers an injured magpie chick abandoned after she had fallen from her nest. The boys name the bird Penguin, for her black-and-white plumage. As they nurse Penguin back to health, the incredible joy, playfulness, and strength she exudes fortify the family and especially lift Sam's spirits. Penguin's resilience demonstrates that however bleak things may seem, compassion, friendship, and support can come from unexpected places, ensuring there will always be better days ahead. This plucky little magpie reminds us all that no matter how lost, fragile, or damaged we feel, accepting the love of others and loving them in return will help to make us whole. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Roxburgh, Edwina Wren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007833/bk_sans_007833_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds: Passerines
    THE BRITISH BIRDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 This unique and spectacular handbook is the most complete and comprehensive photographic guide to the passerines of the Western Palearctic. Written by two of the world's most respected ornithologists, Hadoram Shirihai and Lars Svensson, it contains the most up-to-date information available on bird identification covering all aspects of plumage, moult, ageing and sexing, with sections on voice and other identification criteria, and detailed taxonomic notes. The passerines are divided into two volumes, with the first covering larks, hirundines, pipits and wagtails, bulbuls, accentors, robins, chats, wheatears, thrushes, prinias and cisticolas, and warblers, and the second covering flycatchers, reedlings, tits, nuthatches, orioles and sunbirds, shrikes, corvids, finches and buntings, along with extreme vagrants. The exceptional text is backed up by a remarkable collection of more than 5,000 photographs, featuring a comprehensive range of plumages that illustrate every race and morph of each species in the region. This stunning handbook will be the definitive reference for the region for years to come - no birder's shelf will be complete without it.
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    Nighttime Is My Time, Hörbuch, Digital, 271min
    The definition of an owl had always pleased him: a night bird of prey...sharp talons and soft plumage which permits noiseless flight...applied figuratively to a person of nocturnal habits. 'I am The Owl,' he would whisper to himself after he had selected his prey, 'and nighttime is my time.'"Jean Sheridan, a college dean and prominent historian, sets out to her hometown to attend the 20-year reunion of Stonecroft Academy alumni, where she is to be honored along with six other members of her class. There is something uneasy in the air: one woman in the group about to be feted, Alison Kendall, a beautiful, high-powered Hollywood agent, drowned in her pool during an early-morning swim. Alison is the fifth woman in the class whose life has come to a sudden, mysterious end. Adding to Jean's sense of unease is a taunting, anonymous fax she received, referring to her daughter -- a child she had given up for adoption twenty years ago. At the award dinner, Jean is introduced to Sam Deegan, a detective obsessed by the unsolved murder of a young woman who may hold the key to the identity of the Stonecroft killer. Jean does not suspect that among the distinguished people she is greeting is The Owl, a murderer nearing the countdown on his mission of vengeance against the Stonecroft women who had mocked and humiliated him, with Jean as his final victim. Language: English. Narrator: Jan Maxwell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/001657/bk_sans_001657_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Nighttime Is My Time , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 558min
    The definition of an owl had always pleased him: a night bird of prey...sharp talons and soft plumage which permits noiseless flight...applied figuratively to a person of nocturnal habits. 'I am The Owl,' he would whisper to himself after he had selected his prey, 'and nighttime is my time.'" Jean Sheridan, a college dean and prominent historian, sets out to her hometown to attend the 20-year reunion of Stonecroft Academy alumni, where she is to be honored along with six other members of her class. There is something uneasy in the air: one woman in the group about to be feted, Alison Kendall, a beautiful, high-powered Hollywood agent, drowned in her pool during an early-morning swim. Alison is the fifth woman in the class whose life has come to a sudden, mysterious end. Adding to Jean's sense of unease is a taunting, anonymous fax she received, referring to her daughter -- a child she had given up for adoption 20 years ago. At the award dinner, Jean is introduced to Sam Deegan, a detective obsessed by the unsolved murder of a young woman who may hold the key to the identity of the Stonecroft killer. Jean does not suspect that among the distinguished people she is greeting is The Owl, a murderer nearing the countdown on his mission of vengeance against the Stonecroft women who had mocked and humiliated him, with Jean as his final victim. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jan Maxwell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/001658/bk_sans_001658_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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