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  • Songbirds of the West
    Roland H. Wauer
    Songbirds of the West includes more than four dozen songbirds that occur within the western United States. The majority are found in America’s western National Parks, especially in parks where the author worked for more than a quarter of a century. Big Bend National Park is where he encountered Black-capped and Gray Vireos, Vermilion Flycatchers, Curve-billed and Crissal Thrash...
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    17,52 €

  • Mountainous West
    Roland H. Wauer
    Mountainous West, Denali to Pico de Orizaba includes the author’s personal experiences within many of North America’s highest mountains. They include Alaska’s Denali; Rocky Mountain’s Mount Revelstoke, The Whistlers, and the Grand Tetons; Cascade’s magnificent Mount Rainier, Lassen, and Shasta; Death Valley’s Panamint Mountains; Sky Islands include the Chiricahua, Santa Rita, a...
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    33,84 €

  • Favorite Things
    Roland H. Wauer
    Some of My Favorite Things reflect my many years of birding. As a hobby, an obsession, birds have dominated a substantial part of my life. To support my birding activities, I have been fortunate to have worked/lived in several national park areas and/or National Park Service offices. In succeeding order, they included Crater Lake in Oregon, Pinnacles and Death Valley in Califor...
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    24,17 €

  • Catching Up
    Roland H. Wauer
    Catching Up provides the reader with an amazing number and variety of the author’s personal adventures in the outdoors. These include such experiences as encountering mountain lions in the wild, being treed by a moose in the Grand Tetons, encountering a fierce javelina boar in Big Bend, studying ferruginous pygmy-owls on the King Ranch, restoring Ridley sea turtles to Padre Isl...
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    20,13 €

  • Ruins to Ruins
    Roland H. Wauer
    Ruins to Ruins, partly autobiographical, is a story of Robert, a young naturalist, and Johnathan, a budding archeologist, who travel to southern Mexico to visit the ancient Mayan ruins. As they travel from ruins to ruins, they learn about the ruins and also encounter a variety of natural wonders: army ants and howler monkeys at Chichen Itza, orange breasted falcon at Tikal, and...
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    6,99 €

  • Borderland Birds
    Roland H. Wauer / Roland HWauer
    Borderland Birds includes almost 100 birds that I have encountered along the southern border from Arizona to the Gulf. Many are 'specialty birds, species that cannot be found elsewhere in the U.S. Examples include chachalaca, red-billed pigeon, hook-billed kite, aplomado falcon, ferruginous pygmy-owl, elegant trogon, blue-throated and lucifer hummingbirds, Mexican and green jay...
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    50,58 €

  • Wild Bird Encounters
    Roland 'Ro' Wauer
    Wild Bird Encounters consists of 442 groupings of quotes, from my earlier books, about my personal encounters with birds. They are listed in ​ alphabetical order from Abert’s Towhees to Zone-tailed Hawks. Each includes material I consider unusual, unexpected, or exceptional. ...
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    13,70 €

  • Songbirds of the West
    Roland H. Wauer / Roland HWauer
    Songbirds of the West includes more than four dozen songbirds that occur within the western United States. The majority are found in America’s western National Parks, especially in parks where the author worked for more than a quarter of a century. Big Bend National Park is where he encountered Black-capped and Gray Vireos, Vermilion Flycatchers, Curve-billed and Crissal Thrash...
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    89,24 €

  • Ruins to Ruins
    Roland Wauer
    The subtitle to Ruins to Ruins, From the Mayan Jungle to the Aztec Metropolis, defines the extent of the sites visited by Robert, a young naturalist, and Johnathan, a budding archeologist. A third subtitle might be Finding Wildlife at the Ancient Ruins. Examples include army ants and howler monkeys at Chichén Itza, orange-breasted falcon at Tikal, and king vulture at Yaxchilan....
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    23,61 €

  • Bighorn, Pelicans and Wild Turkeys
    Roland 'Ro' Wauer / Roland Ro Wauer
    Bighorn, Pelicans and Wild Turkeys was written by Roland 'Ro' Wauer who, throughout his 32-year career in the National Park Service, personally encountered all of the animals included. He wrote about the Beavers he found along the Rio Grande and the Scaled Quail on the open desert at Big Bend National Park (NP). He includes Nelson’s Bighorn and Rock Wrens in the Panamint Mounta...
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    27,52 €

  • Wild Critters I Have Known
    Roland 'Ro' Wauer / Roland Ro Wauer
    Wild Critters I Have Known includes more than two dozen wildlife species that the author has encountered over the years in a wide variety of areas. A few of these range from alligators at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge; mountain lions, black bears and javelinas at Big Bend National Park; moose at Grand Teton National Park; peregrines in Mexico’s Maderas del Carmens; great gra...
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    17,46 €

  • Natural Inclinations
    Roland H. Wauer / Roland HWauer
    Born in the Virgin Islands, educated in New York, Greg was an adventurer who took every opportunity available to travel the world. He joined several expeditions to such distant places as Panama, Easter Island, Galapagos, and the Marquesas Islands. In each place he visited, he found unusual wildlife and friendships. ...
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    23,72 €

  • Naturally . . . South Texas
    Roland H. Wauer / Roland HWauer
    The Golden Crescent of South Texas, a fifteen-county region along and inland from the middle Gulf Coast, is often called 'the Crossroads' because of its natural diversity. Located in the heart of the Gulf Coast Prairie and Marshes, the area also encompasses the trailing edges of the South Texas Plains, Post Oak Savannah, and Blackland Prairie. This confluence of ecological zone...
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    22,00 €

  • Birds of the Northwestern National Parks
    Roland H. Wauer / Roland HWauer
    From the bald eagle to the pileolated woodpecker, the varied and abundant birdlife of the northwestern national parks is as impressive as the parks’ dramatic scenery. To help both beginning and advanced birders make the most of their visits to these parks, Roland Wauer has written this finding guide, which introduces the most common birds and the most likely places to see them....
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    17,83 €

  • For All Seasons
    Roland H. Wauer / Roland HWauer
    Something about Big Bend National Park draws visitors again and again. Maybe it’s the spare beauty of the mountains and desert, the dawn chorus of birds, or the vivid stars in the velvet night. All of these things have made it Roland Wauer’s favorite place. In this book, he shares his love of the Big Bend through journal entries that chronicle a year in the life of the park. Wa...
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    21,95 €