Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives

Mark E Hauber

ISBN 10: 022681940X / ISBN 13: 9780226819402

Edité par The University of Chicago Press, 2023

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An hourly guide that follows twenty-four birds as they find food, mates, and safety from predators.   From morning to night and from the Antarctic to the equator, birds have busy days. In this short book, ornithologist Mark E. Hauber shows readers exactly how birds spend their time. Each chapter covers a single bird during a single hour, highlighting twenty-four different bird species from around the globe, from the tropics through the temperate zones to the polar regions. We encounter owls and nightjars hunting at night and kiwis and petrels finding their way in the dark. As the sun rises, we witness the beautiful songs of the ?dawn chorus.? At eleven o?clock in the morning, we float alongside a common pochard, a duck resting with one eye open to avoid predators. At eight that evening, we spot a hawk swallowing bats whole, gorging on up to fifteen in rapid succession before retreating into the darkness.   For each chapter, award-winning artist Tony Angell has depicted these scenes with his signature pen and ink illustrations, which grow increasingly light and then dark as our bird day passes. Working closely together to narrate and illustrate these unique moments in time, Hauber and Angell have created an engaging read that is a perfect way to spend an hour or two?and a true gift for readers, amateur scientists, and birdwatchers.

N° de réf. du vendeur CIN022681940XVG

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives
• Éditeur: The University of Chicago Press
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 022681940X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780226819402
• Reliure: Hardback
• Illustrateur: Angell, Tony
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

An hourly guide that follows twenty-four birds as they find food, mates, and safety from predators.

From morning to night and from the Antarctic to the equator, birds have busy days. In this short book, ornithologist Mark E. Hauber shows readers exactly how birds spend their time. Each chapter covers a single bird during a single hour, highlighting twenty-four different bird species from around the globe, from the tropics through the temperate zones to the polar regions. We encounter owls and nightjars hunting at night and kiwis and petrels finding their way in the dark. As the sun rises, we witness the beautiful songs of the "dawn chorus." At eleven o'clock in the morning, we float alongside a common pochard, a duck resting with one eye open to avoid predators. At eight that evening, we spot a hawk swallowing bats whole, gorging on up to fifteen in rapid succession before retreating into the darkness.

For each chapter, award-winning artist Tony Angell has depicted these scenes with his signature pen and ink illustrations, which grow increasingly light and then dark as our bird day passes. Working closely together to narrate and illustrate these unique moments in time, Hauber and Angell have created an engaging read that is a perfect way to spend an hour or two--and a true gift for readers, amateur scientists, and birdwatchers.

À propos des auteurs

Mark E. Hauber is professor and executive director at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and previously served as the Harley Jones Van Cleave Professor of Host-Parasite Interactions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Book of Eggs, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Tony Angell is the author and illustrator of over a dozen books related to natural history, including The House of Owls and In the Company of Crows and Ravens. He lives in Seattle, WA.