| Description |
1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
A bur oak book
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Bur oak book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-270). |
| Summary |
Now available in paperback with a new foreword by Marcia Myers Bonta, Birds of an Iowa Dooryard contains Althea Sherman's often caustic, always careful studies of the phoebes, wrens, cuckoos, rails, catbirds, owls, flickers, and many other species that inhabited her Acre of Birds in northern Iowa. Birds of an Iowa Dooryard, first published in 1952, is full of Sherman's meticulous observations of species both avian and human. Her paintings, her notebooks and publications, and her innovative chimney swift tower form a remarkably rich legacy to be valued by naturalists and researchers alike. |
| Contents |
The Johnson County Songbird Project; Althea Rosina Sherman: Ornithologist of an Iowa Dooryard; Editor's Note; Foreword to the 1952 Edition; I. Watching the Birds of Our Dooryard; II. Feeding Winter Birds; III. The Home Life of the Chimney Swift; IV. Birds Near at Hand; V. The Phoebe; VI. The Nest Life of the Western House Wren; VII. The Cuckoos; VIII. Habits of the Short-billed Marsh Wren; IX. Notes on the Rails; X. Eleven Days in the Life of a Catbird; XI. The Strange Flycatcher; XII. The Nest Life of the Sparrow Hawk; XIII. Nest Life of the Screech Owl. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Birds -- Iowa.
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Birds. |
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Iowa. |
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Birds -- Behavior -- Iowa.
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Birds -- Behavior. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Pierce, Fred J.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sherman, Althea R. (Althea Rosina), 1853-1943. Birds of an Iowa dooryard. Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, ©1996 0877455686 (DLC) 96060645 (OCoLC)35983149 |
| ISBN |
158729219X (electronic book) |
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9781587292194 (electronic book) |
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0877455686 |
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