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What Bird Did That? : a driver's guide to some common birds of North America / Peter Hansard, Burton Silver.
LIBRA - Blank Collection QL681 .H26 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hansard, Peter.
- Silver, Burton, author, photographer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birds--North America--Identification.
- Birds.
- Bird droppings--North America--Identification.
- Bird droppings.
- Bird droppings--Humor.
- Bird droppings--Identification.
- Bird droppings--Pictorial works.
- Birds--Humor.
- Birds--Identification.
- North America.
- Local Subjects:
- Birds--North America--Identification.
- Bird droppings--North America--Identification.
- Bird droppings--Identification.
- Bird droppings--Pictorial works.
- Bird droppings--Humor.
- Birds--Humor.
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : Ten Speed Press, 1991.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Splay Topography
- Preface
- Introduction
- Collection
- Common Loon: Gavia immer
- AmericanWhite Pelican: Pelicanus eerythrorhynchos
- Great Blue Heron: Ardea herodias
- Canada Goose: Branta canadensis
- Whistling Swan: Cygnus columbianus
- Mallard: Anas platyrhynchos
- Blue-Winged Teal: Anas discors
- Turkey Vulture: Cathartes aura
- Red-Tailed Hawk: Buteo jamaicensis
- Peregrine Falcon: Falco peregrinus
- Bobwhite: Colinus virginianus
- Pheasant: Phasianus colchicus
- American Woodcock: Scolopax minor
- Herring Gull: Larus agentatus
- Common Tern: Sterna hirundo
- Feral Pigeon: Columba livia
- Mourning Dove: Zenaidura macroura
- Road-Runner: Geococcyx californicus
- Barn Owl: Tyto alba
- Great Horned Owl: Buba virginianus
- Common Nighthawk: Chordelles minor
- Chimney Swift: Chactura pelagica
- Ruby-Throated Hummingbird: Archilochus colubris
- Belted Kingfisher: Megaceryle alcyon
- Hairy Woodpecker: Picoides villosus
- Eastern Kingbird: Tyrannus tyrannus
- Barn Swallow: Hirundo rustica
- Purple Martin: Progne subis
- House Wren: Troglodytes aedon
- Mockingbird: Minus polyglottus
- American Robin: Turdus migratorius
- Black-Capped Chickadee: Parus atricapillus
- Cardinal: Cardinalis cardinalis
- Painted Bunting: Passerina ciris
- House Sparrow: Passer domesticus
- Starling: Sturnus vulgaris
- Blue Jay: Cyanocitta cristata
- American Crow: Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Bat Splay: A short note on the Chiroptera
- The Splay as Art.
- Notes:
- "Compiled by Silverculture Press, 487 Karaka Bay Road, Wellington"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 64).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- ISBN:
- 0898154278 (pbk.)
- 9780898154276 (pbk.)
- OCLC:
- 23463608
- Online:
- Publisher description
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