Southern Wildlife Watcher

Southern Wildlife Watcher

Notes of a Naturalist

  • Auteur: Simbeck, Rob; Casada, Jim
  • Éditeur: University of South Carolina Press
  • ISBN: 9781643360928
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781643360935
  • Lieu de publication:  South Carolina , United States
  • Année de publication électronique: 2020
  • Mois : Août
  • DDC: 590.72/340975
  • Langue: Anglais

The Southern Wildlife Watcher is a colorful look at thirty-six common and not-so-common animals found in the southeastern United States—from the hummingbird to the bald eagle and from the bullfrog to the bobcat. Rob Simbeck, one of the Southeast's most widely read naturalists, combines a poet's voice with a journalist's rigor in offering readers an intimate introduction to the creatures around us.

Through delightful storytelling each vignette offers accessible information supported by quotes from noted naturalists and biologists. Simbeck covers habitat, diet, mating and reproduction, environmental challenges, and even folklore in outlining the lives of insects and other invertebrates, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans, and fish. The Southern Wildlife Watcher is a refresher course and handbook for veteran nature lovers, an introduction for young readers, and fireplace or bedtime reading for those wanting to reflect on nature's bounty.

A foreword is provided by Jim Casada, the author or editor of more than forty books and some five thousand magazine articles. He serves as editor at large for Sporting Classics magazine.

  • Cover
  • The Southern Wildlife Watcher
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • PART I. Air
    • American Crow
    • Monarch Butterfly
    • Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
    • House Fly
    • Eastern Screech Owl
    • Common Whitetail Dragonfly
    • Pileated Woodpecker
    • Luna Moth
    • American Robin
    • Carpenter Bee
    • Bald Eagle
    • Blue Jay
  • PART II. Land
    • Eastern Gray Squirrel
    • Wolf Spider
    • Black Rat Snake
    • Eastern Cottontail Rabbit
    • Groundhog
    • Red Fox
    • Eastern Mole
    • Copperhead
    • Bobcat
    • Earthworm
    • Red Velvet Ant
    • Coyote
  • PART III. Water
    • Bullfrog
    • Shrimp
    • Loggerhead Sea Turtle
    • Bottlenose Dolphin
    • Atlantic Horseshoe Crab
    • Crayfish
    • Starfish
    • Atlantic and Gulf Sturgeon
    • Manatee
    • Eastern Oyster
    • Striped Bass
    • Great White Shark
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributing Wildlfie Experts
  • Photography Credits
  • Index

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