Vanishing Songbirds: The Sixth Order : Wood Warblers and Other Passerine Birds (Constance Sullivan Book) - Hardcover

Kaufman, Kenn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821222252 ISBN 13: 9780821222256

Publisher: Bulfinch Pr, 1996

Synopsis

Shows and describes warblers, thrushes, flycatchers, meadowlarks, tanagers, sparrows, finches, grosbeaks, and orioles, including endangered and threatened species

About this title

From Library Journal:

One of the premier photographers of our time, Porter (1901-90) consorted with Alfred Stieglitz and Ansel Adams and was a pioneer in nature photography. This book is a selection of 160 stop-action color photographs of American songbirds at their nests. Just finding these nests, much less securing arresting photographs of their occupants in action, is a major accomplishment. Owing to tropical deforestation and habitat destruction in North America, many of these species, especially the so-called neotropical migrants, are in alarming decline. Amazing as these photographs are, the use of flash and harsh light does give many of them a frozen, dioramalike quality, as if they were taken at night. The text, mostly annotations of the photos by Kenn Kaufman, an outstanding contemporary ornithologist, is excellent. For larger natural history and photography collections.?Henry T. Armistead, Free Lib. of Philadelphia
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About this edition

• Publisher: Bulfinch Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0821222252
• ISBN 13: 9780821222256
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 159
• Editor: Porter Eliot