Pigeons and Doves: A Guide to Pigeons and Doves of the World

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This book is the first full-color illustrated guide to the field identification of the pigeons and doves of the world. The authors incorporate much recent information about this large family of birds that includes specialist frugivores, seed-eaters, brightly colored tropical species, gregarious migratory species, shy ground-dwellers, tree inhabiters, and more.

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David Gibbs Delivers.......2007-01-10

An excellent reference to the Pigeons and Doves of the world. The color drawings and maps are unbelievable. I was able to identify a lot of birds after reading this book that I could not earlier. I give it two thumbs up.

great book for the family columbidae.......2006-11-26

I am an avid bird man. Love birds from foreign countries, and Pigeons and Doves are a special affection of mine. This book is detailed and complete. A great asset to my collection of bird books.
any one needing a great reference book on Pigeons and Doves would surely buy this book.

Worth every penny.......2004-05-12

This is an excellent book, giving full details on all the pigeon and doves species of the world. Excellent color plates also make the reader very familiar with the different types. I'd recommend this read to the budding aviculturist, old bird breeders, orinthologists, and even the average bird watcher.

Come Back, Salmon: How a Group of Dedicated Kids Adopted Pigeon Creek and Brought it Back to Life

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swim fishy swim
young environmentalists in training
A story well told that young and old alike can relate too.

Come Back, Salmon: How a Group of Dedicated Kids Adopted Pigeon Creek and Brought it Back to Life
Molly Cone
Manufacturer: Sierra Club Books for Children
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ASIN: 0871564890

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From Gisela Jernigan--Childrens Literature: "Although Pigeon Creek flows into Washington's beautiful Puget Sound, before it was adopted and cleaned up by Mr. Jackson's fifth grade class, it was so full of trash that you could barely see the water, let alone any fish. Just about everyone in Jackson Elementary, led by the dedicated fifth grade, helped to clean the creek and restock it with baby salmon. Throughout the project the kids learned a great deal about the ecology of the stream and the needs and life cycle of the Coho salmon. And even though many people told them the salmon would never return to Pigeon Creek, they were successful. The many colored photos and drawings enhance the lively text, which is informal, informational and inspiring. Orbis Pictus Award winner and a Horn Book Fanfare award."

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swim fishy swim.......2006-03-07

Very well written with beautiful photographs and helpful illustrations. This nonfiction book is the perfect length for younger elementary students. My 3rd grade class enjoyed the book and became interested in the project. We wrote the school and they were very good about answering emails.

young environmentalists in training.......2002-12-13

I used this book as part of a unit when I was student teaching and the children were enraptured with the theme of preservation. Perfect for the classroom setting, but don't underestimate the joy it'll bring the frog-lover in your family.

A story well told that young and old alike can relate too........1998-06-12

I first researched this project after reading newspaper accounts and was glad to see this story come into book form. It well illustrates the efforts of these determined students and even made the NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children list in 1992. It's a good example of a community service project for students and and teachers.

Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride (Chester Cricket and His Friends)

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Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride
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Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride (Chester Cricket and His Friends)
George Selden
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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ASIN: 0374411816

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Chester Cricket--the famous cricket in Times Square--is homesick. When his friend Mario takes him to a sky show at the Planetarium, Chester realizes how much he misses seeing real stars at night.

Happily, he finds his way out of the subway into Times Square, where he meets a new friend, Lulu Pigeon. Lulu takes him on a trip beyond his wildest dreams. From Central Park to the top of the Empire State Building, from the Statue of Liberty and back to Times Square, Chester sees Manhattan in style--and even finds a little bit of country in the city!

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Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride.......2007-01-15

Haven't read the book yet, bought it for me and my friend to read together, so can't rate it as yet, but I'm sure we'll enjoy it, as we've enjoyed all the books with Chester Cricket that we've read thus far. The delivery of the book was very timely.

So, I rated it 4 stars, just figuring it would be at least that good

review for chester cricket.......2005-11-18

Chester crickets pigeon ride is about a cricket named chester who lives in a sub way in New York with a boy who cares for him and two friends that is a cat and a mouse and they are maried(The cat and mouse are the ones who are maried.)Also when Chester started to feel home sick from his origonal home in the country he began to smell some oak trees.(Their are barly any trees in New York.)So now Chester is tring to find out were the tree sent was coming from,but when he found out were the oak trees were their was a big problem Chester had to cross a bissy,bissy road called Park ave.(The oak trees are on the other side of Park ave,the trees are in a park called Central Park.)Now to get to the park Chester took a cople leeps to the other side and he jumped to the bigest oak tree he layed his eyes on.Next when Chester the cricket landed onthe tree he started to nibble on leafs,but then a pigeon flew right next to him and said,what is a cricket like you doing here in the city?(He is in Time Square,New York.)All Chester did was get scared,but then the pigeon saw that he was scaring Chester so he wanted to make it up to him by showing him the sights in New York like the Statue of Liberty.Also now every time Chestergoes to Central Park he has a new friend who is a pigeon.

review for chester.......2005-11-18

Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride is about a cricket named chester who lived in a sub way with a boy who cares for him and two friends who is a cat and a mouse and they are maried (the mouse and cat are maried.)Also chester lived in time square were their are rarly any trees,but when chester was feeling home sick from his origonal home in the country he started to smell oak trees.So now chester is tring to figure out were the sent of the oak trees are coming from.When chester found out were the trees were he started to them,but he had to cross a bissy,bissy road.(The oak trees are in a park called Central Park.)Now that chester hopped accros the road he took a giant leep onto the bigest tree he saw and began to nibble on some leafs.But then a pigeon flew right next to chester the cricket and said,What is a cricket doing all the way in the city?All Chester did was get scared and the pigeon said don't be scared I'll show you something that will cheer you up(This is when chester is told to go on the pigeons back.)Since chester is on the pigeons back the pigeon takes off into flight to show chester the Statue of Liberty,then after that the pigeon and the bird become friends and every time chester goes to Central Park chester always sees the pigeon

Hi.......2000-05-03

This is a preety good book. I know it can have better details. All of his other books are great! I just love them!

Hi.......2000-05-03

This is a preety good book. I know it can have better details. All of his other books are great! I just love them!

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Life of the Pigeon
Alexander F. Skutch
Manufacturer: Comstock Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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"Skutch combines his personal knowledge of pigeons that he has watched near his Costa Rican home with a masterful summary of the published literature on Columbids of the world. . . . The doves and pigeons of the world are a fascinating lot. Alexander Skutch, aided by Dana Gardner, captures the essence of their life and presents it in an easily digestible form. Although scientists may be exasperated by some of the elements of the presentation, any student of birds will be enlightened and entertained by reading Life of the Pigeon."--Ornithological Literature

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Incredible!
Is there a better book of stories anywhere?
short stories
Top of his craft
To Discover it again...

Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories
John Updike
Manufacturer: Knopf
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0394440560
Release Date: 1962-03-12

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"Some of the most beautiful writing in contemporary American literature is between the covers of this book . . ." BOSTON HERALD

The triumphant collection of short stories by America's most acclaimed novelist.

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Incredible!.......2006-03-28

This is an incredible book, which features many of Updike's earlier stories. The title story is amazing in its meaning and moral complexity. FIVE STARS!!!

Is there a better book of stories anywhere?.......2004-03-08

If there is, you have my attention. Maybe Isaac Babel's Collected Stories or Fitzgerald's Selected Stories. I've been writing for 27 years; I may have written three sentences that compare with the average in an Updike story. In "Flight" he captures in several sentences more about family than I've discovered through an entire life. Sorry for being self-referential; it's a measure of my awe. Updike's magic is that he can tell a story in a single sentence. If you only know Updike through his novels, you're in for a treat. By my lights, this is the greatest living story writer and this is the book that made that clear.

short stories.......2003-12-07

Good short stories from thr great Updike. Each one uniqely different.

Top of his craft.......2002-01-22

I'm a budding short story writer, myself; and no course, no workshop, no amount of instruction can subsitute for the lessons one learns leafing through and ingesting these exquisite paragraphs of John Updike. I find myself, in this volume, more than other Updike works, reading and re-reading the prose, even emailing sections to friends. Like a fine restaurant I want to tell people about, like a band that plays exceptionally well live which you get to catch on a great night, Updike, here, is "on"; he is at the absolute peak of his craft. I only wish there were more collections of short stories written as well as these.

To Discover it again..........2001-11-14

There is little, if anything, one is able to say that can possibly capture the beauty or majesty of a great Updike story. The gentle yet exact measure of his sentences, the bewilderingly complex yet infinitely fluid (and eventually near-epiphanic) weaving of narratives, his control of internal characterization--few are masters in the manner that John Updike is a master.

And this volume contains his greatest story--possibly what I feel to be the greatest piece of literature in all of latter-half 20th century American literature (and we're including it all here, not just short stories). The last story of the volume: Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, A Dying Car, A Traded Car.

Enough with the theoretics and generalities here. This story can change your life. Or, at the very least, it can alter the way in which you interact with literature--what you can expect out of literature.

One piece of advice, though: read it in one sitting.
Seriously.
Don't get up, even just for a little while to fix something to eat. Don't read it bit by bit (it's long, so you may be tempted). And, whatever you do, don't look at the last page before it's time.

It may seem disjointed. It may seem an odd accumulation of narratives. Don't stop reading.

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From a pigeon's-eye view, a city is a marvelous place, full of adventure and surprise! See and feel a pulsing city from the unique perspective of a pigeon! In the process, the reader gains a new appreciation for this special bird that has chosen to live in urban canyons all over the world. The colorful illustrations are entirely constructed from polymer clay by award-winning artist, Jeanette Canyon, illustrator of the popular Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef.

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Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near?.......2006-03-29

It's not as if New York City has the copyright out on pigeons. Every major metropolitan city you enter is home to those animals some dub, "rats with wings". Still, when I heard about "City Beats: A Hip-Hoppy Pigeon Poem", I thought it would be a pretty safe bet that this was a book by New Yorkers for New Yorkers. Apparently living in Manhattan has fried my otherwise cute little brain. This book was written by Ohioans and was published in Nevada City, CA. So if you want to see this as a reflection of the birdies of the Big Apple, all power to you. Just bear in mind that pigeons have a long and colorful history and they're too big a species to be limited to any one town. In the case of "City Beats", the book does a remarkable thing. It brings to our attention the fact that pigeons are beautiful birds. Birds that are victims of their own success, no less. And in doing so we get glimpse of what the world must look like to them every day.

Open the book and the first thing you see the a sentence that asks, "Have you ever stopped to admire a pigeon?". Expecting (and 9 out of 10 times getting) a no, the book explains on a single page the history of the city pigeon and how these former Rock Doves adapted brilliantly to our human cityscapes. Then the real fun begins. A poem begins in the early hours of the day, wondering what pigeons might see during a typical day. Suddenly we're avoiding the gigantic feet of humans who are, "Brimming, bustling" as the birds snap up an abandoned doughnut. There are vehicles to pass, city construction to hear, delicious food scattered everywhere, a cool calming park to perch in. Rammell brings together everything from a candy-laden carnival-like atmosphere to cool jazzy evenings. Then we're back to the same window at the end of the day. Two pigeons doze off with the moon rising above them. "To feel the city's life / In its people, in its streets / But now the day is over / As we dream of city beats". I should note that with each page in the book, you read a poem referring to a scene on the opposite page. A scene that is glimpsed only through a small window. Then you turn the page, the window disappears, and while the poem is still visible you get to witness a full riot of color and pageantry all with the turn of a page.

The phrase, "A Hip-Hoppy Pigeon Poem" might be enough to scare off even the most committed of parents. Hip-Hoppy? The person picking up this book may dread opening it for fear that a pigeon in gold medallions starts beat-boxing at them. Allow me to allay your fears then. This book is all poetry and doesn't contain a single lame attempt to "speak to today's youth". The words describing each scene vary according to the images. When we witness construction, the words become onomatopoetic with lots of "Screech! Hiss! Pop! Pound!". Other times we're offered introspective looks at city life. "Candy rain, sirens wail / Booming low - blaring high /Rainbow dreams on wheels / Animals in the sky". As you can see from that last line, not every portion of this book scans perfectly. Still, they fit the book nicely enough.

Honestly? I could take or leave the words in this book. Rammell had a good idea, sure. No question. But the star of this show is Jeanette Canyon. The book says that she created the pictures with polymer clay, "a medium which complements her talents as both a painter and sculptor". Polymer clay. It sounds so very simple. Well... that is until you actually look at the pictures. I don't know how Rammell did it, but she's doing stuff with clay here that I've never seen anyone do before. I was willing to accept that clay might be used to fashion an intricate window frame. But the stained glass windows within it? Foggy city streets? The veins on a leaf of ivy? Heck, she's gone so far as to delineate each pigeon's iridescent feathers in clay, as well as the teeny tiny pieces of gravel that lie between a building's bricks. And the scary part? Everything I just mentioned appears on the cover of the book. Open it up and suddenly everything gets even more complex. I've seen some breathtaking pictures in my day, but Canyon takes the cake.

The book asks you in the end to, "gain a respect for the unsung pigeon, the dove that chooses to live with humans". We forget that pigeons are doves or that with their shiny purple/black feathers we might find them beautiful if they were a little less common (or friendly). Certainly it makes a strong case for loving this universally recognized boid. With the window scheme and clever cut-out construction, "City Beats" would pair beautifully with the wordless but artistically similar, "Home" by Jeannie Baker. If you are looking for a good rhyming selection with lots of excellent onomatopoetic words and art that'll knock your socks off (and keep on knocking), grab yourself this gem of a publication. And hopefully, like the pigeon it praises, it'll start appearing in every city too.

Avian Navigation: Pigeon Homing as a Paradigm

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Avian Navigation: Pigeon Homing as a Paradigm
Hans G. Wallraff
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 3540223851

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How migratory birds can navigate home from their wintering grounds to their breeding sites over hundreds and thousands of kilometres has been an admired mystery over more than a century. Profound advances towards a solution of this problem have been achieved with a model bird, the homing pigeon. This monograph summarizes our current knowledge about pigeon homing, about the birds' application of a sun compass and a magnetic compass, of a visual topographical map within a familiar area and -- most surprisingly -- of an olfactory map using atmospheric chemosignals as indicators of position in distant unfamiliar areas.

The Passenger Pigeon: Its History and Extinction

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The Passenger Pigeon: Its History and Extinction
A., W. Schorger
Manufacturer: The Blackburn Press
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ASIN: 1930665962

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Published in 1955 by the University of Oklahoma Press, this is the classic study of the extinction of the passenger pigeon. The passenger pigeon, once probably the most numerous bird on the planet, made its home in the billion or so acres of primary forest that once covered North America east of the Rocky Mountains. Their flocks, a mile wide and up to 300 miles long, were so dense that they darkened the sky for hours and days as the flock passed overhead. Population estimates from the 19th century ranged from 1 billion to close to 4 billion birds. Total populations may have reached 5 billion birds and comprised up to 40% of the total number of birds in North America. This may be the only species for which the exact time of extinction is known. No appreciable decline in the numbers was noted until the late 1870s but, thereafter, their destruction took only twenty-five years. The immense roosting and nesting colonies invited over-hunting. Tens of thousands of individuals were harvested daily from nesting colonies, and shipped to markets in the east. Modern technology hastened the demise of the passenger pigeon. With the coming of the telegraph, the locations of flocks could be ascertained, and the birds relentlessly pursued. The last bird died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden before any competent ornithologists could write an account of the species. A. W. Schorger reconstructed the life history of the passenger pigeon. Through painstaking research, he examined every aspect of the species -- behavioral characteristics, feeding methods, traveling and roosting habits, nesting - and the various stages of the species encounter with man, from utilization by the Native American to extinction at the hands of white settlers. From the original reviews: "This really shocking book ought to be required reading for every thoughtful citizen" Audubon Magazine "Reads as fascinatingly as many a novel" Cleveland Plain Dealer "Prodigious" Newsweek "Absorbing" Scientific American "An excellent book" Michigan History

Pigeon Hill: Growing Up Romanian and Mom's Story : Short Stories of the Life and Times 1908-1932 in Aurora Illinois

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Childhood memories

Pigeon Hill: Growing Up Romanian and Mom's Story : Short Stories of the Life and Times 1908-1932 in Aurora Illinois
George W. Trippon , and Mary Trippon
Manufacturer: Writers Club Press
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ASIN: 0595208991

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A heartwarming sharing of one's youth as one grows up in two cultures.

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Childhood memories.......2006-11-03

My Grandparents lived on Pigeon Hill and I remember a lot of the things talked about in the book. My Grandfather was one of the founders of St. Michael's Church in the early 1900's and I remember going to weddings there. Good book to read for how Romanian immigrants lived at the turn of the century.

A Visitor's Guide To The After Life: Where to Go, What to Do, Where to Eat, and Other Heavenly Hints

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HEAVENLY HA-HA!

A Visitor's Guide To The After Life: Where to Go, What to Do, Where to Eat, and Other Heavenly Hints
Annie Pigeon
Manufacturer: Zebra
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ASIN: 0821749870

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HEAVENLY HA-HA!.......1999-02-04

The Visitor's Guide to the Afterlife is a sure hit for those who

a) Travel alot

b) Are spiritually aware & just a tad sarcastic

c) Just want a good laugh

The Visitor's Guide: Don't leave life with out it!

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