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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Author's Note; Part I: WHY WE SHOULD CARE ABOUT BIRDS; Prologue: Hemlock Lake, January 1976; Chapter 1 Nature's Winged Warning System; Chapter 2 All Those Trees Out There: Of Humans, Habitat, and Birds; Part II: THE RESCUERS; Chapter 3 The Bird That Owned the Sky: Tom Cade and the Peregrine Falcon; Chapter 4 The Great Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project; Chapter 5 The Last Pair of Eagles in New York: Hemlock Lake, 1976; Chapter 6 So Wild and Free: Bringing Bald Eagles Back to New York; Part III: WHERE WILL THEY BE IN ONE HUNDRED YEARS? |
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Chapter 7 Toxic Summer: Loons, Lead, and Our Poisoned LakesChapter 8 Our Winter Visitors: Short-eared Owls and New York's Endangered Grasslands; Chapter 9 The Most Beautiful Sound on the Mountain: The World of the Bicknell's Thrush; Part IV: A BRIEF AND DANGEROUS LIFE; Chapter 10 Windows, Windmills, and Lights: The Many Ways We Kill Birds; Chapter 11 A Billion Dead Birds a Year? The Controversy about Cats; Part V: THE WORLD WE'VE MADE; Chapter 12 Comeback: The Astonishing Return of the Peregrine Falcon; Chapter 13 Up in the New York Skies: Bald Eagles Everywhere |
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Epilogue: Everything is ConnectedThe Rescuers: Where are They Now?; Common and Scientific Names of Bird Species, Cited in Order of Appearance in Text; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Birds -- Conservation -- New York (State)
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Birds -- Conservation. |
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New York (State) |
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Birds -- Effect of human beings on -- New York (State)
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Birds -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Birds. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McGrath, Darryl, 1957- author. Flight paths 9781438459264 (DLC) 2015006734 (OCoLC)927241475 |
| ISBN |
9781438459271 electronic book |
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1438459270 electronic book |
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9781438459264 |
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1438459262 |
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9781438459257 |
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1438459254 |
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