Bob Thornton,Vera Thornton's Chasing Warblers (Corrie Herring Hooks Series) PDF

By Bob Thornton,Vera Thornton

ISBN-10: 0292781628

ISBN-13: 9780292781627

ISBN-10: 0292781636

ISBN-13: 9780292781634

"I am very inspired through Bob and Vera Thornton's e-book. The pictures are excellent.... i'm particularly inspired through the keenness they create to their subject."

—Victor Emanuel, President, Victor Emanuel Nature Tours

Known to many as "the butterflies of the chicken world," wooden warblers attract even the main skilled and discriminating birders. Their annual migrations to and from nesting components within the usa and Canada draw millions of birders to locations similar to excessive Island, Texas; Crane Creek, Ohio; and element Pelee, Ontario, the place warblers cease to relaxation and feed throughout the lengthy trip. There birders have an opportunity to determine and picture those colourful, elusive songbirds whose fast, darting flight between excessive branches and thick conceal makes them probably the most demanding birds to monitor and identify.

In this unique, superbly illustrated publication, Bob Thornton recounts his and Vera Thornton's cross-continent adventures find and photographing all fifty two species of wooden warblers that nest within the usa. as well as describing the place and the way they photographed every one species, Thornton tells extraordinary tales of the colourful characters they encountered alongside the way in which. He additionally touches at the present human threats to wooden warblers that come from lack of habitat.

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