A photographic exploration of America's great swamplands. Text and photographs by Brooke Meanley; illustrations by John Taylor. 142 pages; b&w photos, illustrations, and maps throughout; 7.5 x 10.25 inches. Bibliography, index of flora and fauna.

Swamps, river bottoms, and canebrakes

Meanley, Brooke

Barre Publishers

<p>A remarkably diverse population of bird life, migratory and indigenous, lives in the region known as the Chesapeake Bay country. It is one of the finest locations on the eastern seaboard for observing wild birds. Among the cattail and wild rice, the cordgrass and loblolly, from the countryside north of Baltimore to the windswept beaches of the Atlantic, are the imperiled canvasback, the boat-tailed grackle, the secretive king rail, the fragile egret, and the evasive snowy owl. Illustrated with photographs and line drawings, this book is indispensable to bird watchers and conservationists in the Chesapeake Bay region.</p>

Birds & Marshes of the Chesapeake Bay Country

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Schiffer

Blackwater

Biological Sciences

Tidewater Pub

<p>The seventy-mile chain of largely uninhabited islands along the Eastern shore of Virginia is one of the last remaining natural seashore areas of the Atlantic coast. These barrier islands and bordering marshlands exist today pretty much as they must have in pristine times. Because of its wilderness aspect, diversity, and location of the islands, this region has the richest assortment of bird life in the Middle Atlantic states. The Eastern Shore is known for its numerous nesting colonies of terns, skimmers, laughing gulls, herons, egrets, and ibises; large breeding clapper rail populations; large concentrations of migratory birds of various species and for its large segment of the Atlantic brant and greater snow goose populations that winter there. This book deals with the nearly 200 species of shorebirds, seabirds, and marsh birds that have attracted bird-watchers to the area since the late 1800s.</p>

Birdlife at Chincoteague and the Virginia Barrier Islands

The Marsh Hen: A Natural History of the Clapper Rail of the Atlantic Coast Salt Marsh

Cornell Maritime Pr/Tidewater Pub

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