Birds of Delaware (Pitt Series in Nature and Natural History)
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Book Description
This scholarly compendium is primarily concerned with species accounts for breeding birds, migrants, and rare visitors. Written for both the ornithologist and the enthusiast alike, the authors have included short original essays on geese, hawk migration, spring shorebird migration, blackbird floods, irruptive winter visitors, and other subjects that will give the reader added pleasure. Gene K. Hess is the collections manager (vertebrates) for the Delaware Museum of Natural History. He teaches bird identification at the museum and in the field.
About the Author
Richard L. West, Ph.D., was a research chemist and manager for ICI Americas until he elected early retirement in 1987 to devote himself to ornithology. He now lives in Florida where he continues to write and study about birds.
Maurice V. Barnhill III is a physics professor at the University of Delaware, with a strong avocational interest in ornithology.
Lorraine M. Fleming, the Delaware Nature Society's assistant director for consming, the Delaware Nature Society's assistant director for conservation and preservation, has been a strong advocate for sound conservation policy in Delaware. She is the author of Delaware's Outstanding Natural Areas and Their Preservation (1978).
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