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Spix's Macaw

2004-11-16 Nature
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Release : 2004-11-16
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 518/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Spix's Macaw by : Tony Juniper

Download or read book Spix's Macaw written by Tony Juniper. This book was released on 2004-11-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spix's Macaw tells the story of a unique band of brilliant blue birds - who talk, fall in love, and grieve - struggling against extinction. By the second half of the twentieth century the birds had become more valuable than heroin, worth thousands of dollars on the black market. In 1990, only one was found to be living in the wild and an emergency international rescue operation was launched, calling on private collectors to come forward with their birds to mate with the last wild Spix's." "In a breathtaking display of stoicism and endurance, the loneliest bird in the world had lived without a mate for fourteen years, outwitting predators and poachers. Would he take to a new companion? Like humans, Spix's Macaws can't be forced to love, but the stakes were as high as they could be: the survival of one of the world's most beautiful birds."--BOOK JACKET.

The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird

2008-03-12 Nature
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Release : 2008-03-12
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 29X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird by : Alvin Powell

Download or read book The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird written by Alvin Powell. This book was released on 2008-03-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Real-life scientific adventure • A thought-provoking exploration of how the Endangered Species Act works--and how it fails Thirty years ago, researchers discovered a previously unknown species of bird in the rain-soaked and remote mountains of Hawaii. As they studied the creature--which sported a black mask and was called the po'ouli--they soon learned that its population was shrinking quickly, and they worked frantically to find out what was killing the species and how they might prevent its extinction. This fast-paced account of their work, done in one of the world's most inhospitable environments, describes a stirring fight for survival. It also illustrates the challenge of protecting endangered species in a rapidly changing world.

Facing Extinction

2013-12-19 Nature
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Release : 2013-12-19
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 666/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Facing Extinction by : Paul Donald

Download or read book Facing Extinction written by Paul Donald. This book was released on 2013-12-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines extinction in birds, with case studies of critically endangered species and the research initiatives designed to save them.

The Race to Save the Lord God Bird

2014-08-26 Young Adult Nonfiction
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Release : 2014-08-26
Genre : Young Adult Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 964/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by : Phillip Hoose

Download or read book The Race to Save the Lord God Bird written by Phillip Hoose. This book was released on 2014-08-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces artists like John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell's Arthur A. "Doc" Allen and his young ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest to save the Ivory-bill culminates in one of the first great conservation showdowns in U.S. history, an early round in what is now a worldwide effort to save species. As hope for the Ivory-bill fades in the United States, the bird is last spotted in Cuba in 1987, and Cuban scientists join in the race to save it. All this, plus Mr. Hoose's wonderful story-telling skills, comes together to give us what David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds calls "the most thorough and readable account to date of the personalities, fashions, economics, and politics that combined to bring about the demise of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker." The Race to Save the Lord God Bird is the winner of the 2005 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2005 Bank Street - Flora Stieglitz Award.

Facing Extinction

2010 Extinct birds
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Release : 2010
Genre : Extinct birds
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Book Rating : 663/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Facing Extinction written by . This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative study of extinction in birds, with case studies of 20 critically endangered species and the research initiatives designed to save them.

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