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2003., Abrams Call No: B Audubon Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Briefly tells the story of this nineteenth-century painter and naturalist who is most famous for his detailed paintings of birds.
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c2004, Primary, Houghton Mifflin Co Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As a boy, John James Audubon loved to watch birds. In 1804, at the age of eighteen, he moved from his home in France to Pennsylvania. There he took a particular interest in peewee flycatchers. While observing these birds, John James became determined to answer a pair of two-thousand-year-old questions: Where do small birds go in the winter, and do they return to the same nest in the spring?
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c2004., Houghton Mifflin Call No: B AUD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of John James Audubon as a youth.
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c2004., Primary, Houghton Mifflin Co. Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As a boy, John James Audubon loved to watch birds. In 1804, at the age of eighteen, he moved from his home in France to Pennsylvania. There he took a particular interest in peewee flycatchers. While observing these birds, John James became determined to answer a pair of two-thousand-year-old questions: Where do small birds go in the winter, and do they return to the same nest in the spring?.
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c2011., Calkins Creek Call No: 598.092 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tracks the life of this American artist, activist, and passionate bird lover from his days as a child, to art student, to creator of the Peterson Field Guides, to global environmentalist.
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c2011., Juvenile, Calkins Creek Call No: B PETERSON Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Provides a biography of American artist, naturalist, and founder of the Peterson Field Guides, Roger Tory Peterson. Describes his childhood, days as an art student, and love of birds that became his legacy.
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-- Life of Roger Tory Petersonc2011., Pre-adolescent, Calkins Creek Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "To some, he was "Professor Nuts Peterson," but to the world he was Roger Tory Peterson. For the birds: the life of Roger Tory Peterson tracks this American artist, activist, and passionate bird lover from his days as a child, to art student, to creator of the Peterson Field Guides, to global environmentalist. Peterson's guides were revolutionary--simply written and drawn for everyone to enjoy the birds, animals, and plants of the outdoors. Millions of copies have sold to date. Author Peggy Thomas and artist Laura Jacques worked closely with the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, New York, to create the first children's book about this great naturalist."--book jacket.
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c1993., Millbrook Press Call No: B AUD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A Gateway green biographySummary Note: Traces the life of John James Audubon from his early childhood in France to his career in America and his eventual success as an artist and naturalist.
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1992, Juvenile, H.N. Abrams Call No: 598 .092 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: First impressionsSummary Note: Examines the noted artist whose passion for American birds dominated his life and his work.
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c1995., Juvenile, F. Watts Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A first bookSummary Note: A biography of the nineteenth-century ornithologist, naturalist, and artist famous for his accurate paintings of birds and animals.
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[2022]., Primary, Clarion Books Call No: HI-INT 598.9 WIL Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientists in the field.Summary Note: It's July on Alaska's North Slope, and scientist Denver Holt is in Utqiagvik surveying nests. Denver has been coming here since 1992, and the snowy owls he studies have been coming here much longer: thousands of years. With its mix of coastal, low-elevation tundra and a rich presence of lemmings, the North Slope is the only area in Alaska where snowy owls regularly nest. How do snowy owls decide where they will nest? How do they manage to arrive at locations where food will be abundant? What drives the success of these delicate tundra ecosystems? These are the mysteries Denver is trying to solve to help ensure a bright future for these elegant hunters.
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-- Life and art of John James AudubonBy Plain, Nancy[2015], University of Nebraska Press Call No: B Audubon Audubon Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Examines the life and art of ornithologist John James Audubon. Features color reproductions throughout.