Waterbirds
Title:
Waterbirds
Author:
Cross, Theodore L., 1924-2010
ISBN:
9780393072266
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York [etc.] : W. W. Norton & Co., 2009
Physical Description:
343 p. : ill. ; 31 cm
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Waterbirds. The reddish egrets of Green Island. Seabirds of Christmas Island. A day on the Funks. Journey to Johnston. Voyage to Ellesmere. The miracle of Delaware Bay. Rozovaya Chaika : the pink gull of Kolyma -- The birds.
Abstract:
A spectacular collection of the world’s most beautiful waterbirds, celebrating both those oceanic wanderers that live at sea, coming only land only to breed, as well as those shorebirds and so-called colonial nesters that live on land but are almost always found never water.
Subject:
| Water birds |
| Water birds -- Pictorial works |
Summary:
A spectacular collection of the world’s most beautiful waterbirds, celebrating both those oceanic wanderers that live at sea, coming only land only to breed, as well as those shorebirds and so-called colonial nesters that live on land but are almost always found never water.