Behrens, Ken.
Summary: Seawatching is the challenging act of identifying waterbirds in flight. Since more than one hundred different species can fly past an observation point, often at great speed or in tightly packed, mixed-species flocks, identification of these distant shapes can be a mystery. The keys to the mystery—the subtle traits that unlock the identity of flying waterbirds, be it wingbeat cadence,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The experts at Florida Sportsman bring you the most colorful, indepth book on snapper and grouper ever written. Learn how to catch more and bigger grouper and snapper than ever before. The best baits and rigs, new hotspots, and tips from the pros!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Florida Sportsman 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799 SPOSibley, David
Summary: "Covering North American species east of the Rocky Mountains, [offering] a wealth of improvements and updates"--Front flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Each year, red knots, sandpipers weighing no more than a coffee cup, fly a near-miraculous 19,000 miles from the tip of South America to their nesting grounds in the Arctic and back. Along the way, they double their weight by gorging on millions of tiny horseshoe crab eggs. Horseshoe crabs, ancient animals that come ashore but once a year, are vital to humans, too: their blue blood safeguards...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 CRAHays, Daniel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.6 HAYCalloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon)
Summary: " ... A large number of Native leaders were well acquainted with city life. In fact, over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were in town often, regularly traveling to Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York and New Orleans -- primarly to conduct diplomatic or trade business, but often from a sense of curiosity and adventure. Some were even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.2 CALProctor, Noble S.
Summary: Discusses how, why, and when birds choose to sing, offers advice on recognizing the song of individual birds, and presents specific information on one hundred songbirds commonly found in the countryside.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Press 1988
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 598.2 PROOffley, Edward.
Summary: "On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began to sink. Then a small escort warship blew apart in a violent explosion. Navy warships and aircraft...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars OffleyAnderson, Tom
Summary: Two childhood friends from Wales meet in Miami for a summer road trip they've always dreamed of : to chase a hurrican swell along the US east coast in search of the perfect wave. As they journey up the coast, the embark on an hilarious journey of self-discovery and a travel experience like no other. -- P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summersdale Publishers Ltd 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.32 ANDTroupe, Thomas Kingsley
Summary: "When Spanish gold is found on the North Carolina coast, your mind begins to race. Through your studies, you know that the infamous pirate Blackbeard was active in that area in the 1700s. Could this be the first clue to finding his long-lost treasure? It's up to YOU to find out! With dozens of choices and clues to follow, which path will YOU choose to dig up the riches left behind by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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Summary: "Sometimes, an ordinary walk can become something ... magical! Tag along with Ruby as she discovers that even big cities have a wild side"--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Cornell Lab Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOJenkins, Peter
Summary: Photographic record of the author's two-year trip around the Gulf Coast, from the Florida Keys to the Texas/Mexico border, with stories about some of the people he met and places he visited along the way. Companion piece to the author's book, Along the edge of America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutledge Hill Press 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 976 JENBurgess, Douglas R.
Summary: "From previously undiscovered archives in England, the Carolinas, Rhode Island, Jamaica, and elsewhere, Douglas Burgess has synthesized a fascinating retelling of the "Golden Age of Piracy", from 1660 to 1725. Pirates needed patrons, the fragile American colonies needed maritime wealth and coastal protection, and everyone except the English crown benefited from untaxed and unregulated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 BURChowdhury, Bernie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.23 CHOWynne, Kate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rhode Island Sea Grant, University of Rhode Island 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.5 WYNSummary: First in a series of beginner to novice birding books based on the #1 birding website (16MM unique users), AllAboutBirds.org from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the leading authority and voice for birders. "All About Backyard Birds" builds on the huge success of the Cornell Lab's renowned website to translate and deliver best-in-class content and proven user-friendly formats into print....
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Cornell Lab of Ornithology 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.072 ALLChowdhury, Bernie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 363.14 CHOWDLester, David
Summary: "Under the Banner of King Death explores the sub-culture and resistance of eighteenth-century pirates, telling the tales of John Gwin, an African American fugitive from bondage in South Carolina; Ruben Dekker, a common seaman from Amsterdam; and Mark/Mary Reed, an American woman who dressed as a man and went to sea"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 LESMcCracken, James A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Press : distributed by Crowell 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.4 MCCSummary: Takes the viewer on three different tours of the United States, with footage of the most beautiful scenic drive in the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Assoc. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 AMEStokes, Donald W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.2974 STOSpectre, Peter H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sheridan House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.82 SPEHoekwater, Dorothy I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prime Time Pub. 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 HOEFarrand, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1988