Indiana is proud to publish this lavish book, the first properly designed and professionally illustrated edition of any of Arthur Cleveland Bent's Life Histories of North American Birds. For the first time in this century, one of Bent's books is now available in an appropriate format, handsome library bindings, a modern attractive typeface, and with magnificent original paintings. Eventually, Zimmerman and the Press expect to republish the entire series in this new format. Everyone who develops a serious interest in birds soon discovers Bent's Life Histories. He began work on the project in 1910 at the request of the Smithsonian Institution and continued gathering and publishing material until his death in 1954. The Histories provide the most comprehensive and interesting collection of field observations of North American birds ever made. Anyone observing a particular bird for the first time, at the backyard bird feeder or in the field, quickly wants more information than the standard field guides provide. Bent never disappoints. His books are a naturalist's delight. No ornithologist or nature lover of any stripe, professional or amateur, should be without these books. All of the woodpeckers seen in North America are covered in this volume. In enthusiastic, readable prose, Bent and his collaborators give us information about courtship, nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, range, behavior, voice, enemies, distribution, migratory habits, and much, much more. Added to this handsome republication are the original paintings of one of America's finest bird painters. Zimmerman says: "In rereading Bent's Life Histories of North American Woodpeckers in preparation for illustrating this book, I became newly inspired by the vivid descriptions of how the Harris's Woodpecker takes cover during downpours in the rain forest of western Washington; the White-headed Woodpecker in California's pine-forested highlands coming down to drink from a mountain stream; the male and female Williamson's Sapsucker, so different they were originally believed to be two separate species; the Nuttall's Woodpecker with its habit of landing nuthatch-style on the underside of tree limbs; the flycatching behavior of the Lewis's; and much more. I have tried to present this kind of detail in the plates."

Life Histories of North American Woodpeckers

Science & Math

Bent, Arthur Cleveland

Nature & Ecology

Indiana University Press

The most used, most comprehensive source of information available on American birds. Covers about 73 subspecies of ducks, geese, and swans. Describes nesting and migratory habits, plumage, behavior, food, fieldmarks, courtship procedures, and much more.

Life Histories of North American Wild Fowl, Part 2

Sports & Outdoors

Dover Publications

Photographs depicting nesting habits accompany descriptions of more than one hundred subspecies of hawks, eagles, falcons, buzzards, condors, and owls.

Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey PART 1

Biological Sciences

Dover Pubns

Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey, Part Two

Dover Publications. Inc.

Bent, Arthur Cleveland, Life Histories Of North American Shore Birds, Part 1: Woodcocks,

Life Histories of North American Shore Birds: Part One

Life Histories of North American Shore Birds: Part Two

Bent, Arthur Cleveland, Life Histories Of North American Gallinaceous Birds

Life Histories of North American Gallinaceous Birds

Arthur Cleveland Bent was one of America's greatest ornithologists. The all-inclusiveness of his volumes on North American birds has made them classics of our time. Published under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, this historic 20 volume series forms the most comprehensive, most complete, and most-used source of information in existence on the birds of our continent. No ornithologist, conservationist, amateur naturalist or birdwatcher should be without these books. In this volume the reader will find an encyclopedic collection of information about 54 different kinds of marsh bird (flamingo, ibis, bittern, heron, egret, crane, crake, rail, coot, etc.) Not a group of general descriptions but a collection of detailed, specific observations of individual flocks throughout the country, it describes in readable language and copious detail the nesting habits, plumage, egg form, distribution, food, behavior, field marks, voice, enemies, winter habits, range, courtship procedures, molting information, and migratory habits of every known North American marsh bird. Completely modern in its approach, this work was prepared with the full recognition of the difficulties inherent in the observation and interpretation of wild life behavior. The author utilized first-hand reports of contemporary observers and writings of America's great naturalists of the past--Audubon, Burroughs, William Brewster. The complete textual coverage is supplemented by 98 full-page black &amp; white plates containing 179 photos of nesting sites, eggs, and the young of important species at various stages in their growth, etc. This is an unabridged republication of the first edition.

Life Histories of North American Marsh Birds (Dover Birds)

The all-encompassing series on North American birds prepared by Arthur Cleveland Bent forms the most complete, most comprehensive, most-used single source of information in existence on the subject. Bent was one of America's greatest ornithologists. His historic studies, published originally under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, have all now been reprinted by Dover, in their complete, unabridged version. These works rank as classics of our time. No ornithologist, conservationist, amateur naturalist or birdwatcher should be without them. In this volume the reader will find an encyclopedic collection of information about 64 kinds of woodpecker (hairy, downy, pileated, red-headed, cactus, Nuttail's, white-headed, three-toed, etc.), sapsucker, and flicker. Not a group of generalized descriptions, but a compilation of detailed, specific observations of individual birds and flocks throughout the country, it describes in readable language and copious detail the nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, range, behavior, field marks, voice, enemies, winter habits, distribution, courtship procedures, molting information, migratory habits--whatever you want to know about these birds. Completely modern in approach, the study was made with the full recognition of the difficulties inherent in the observation and interpretation of wild life behavior. For that reason, the author utilized not only the reports of hundreds of contemporary observers all over the country, but also the writings of America's great naturalists of the past--Audubon, Burroughs, William Brewster. The complete textual coverage is supplemented by 39 full-page black &amp; white plates, containing 74 photos of adults and young, nesting sites, the feeding of nestlings, eggs, woodpecker damage to trees, and the like.

Includes pipits, waxwings, starlings, etc. 72 photographs.

Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, and Their Allies

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Life Histories of North American Woodpeckers

Life Histories of North American Wild Fowl, Part 2

Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey PART 1

Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey, Part Two

Life Histories of North American Shore Birds: Part One

Life Histories of North American Shore Birds: Part Two

Life Histories of North American Gallinaceous Birds

Life Histories of North American Marsh Birds (Dover Birds)

Life Histories of North American Woodpeckers

Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, and Their Allies