• Water, Prey, and Game Birds of North America by Alexander Wetmore, 1965 National Geographic hardcover - front of dust jacket
  • Water, Prey, and Game Birds of North America by Alexander Wetmore, 1965 National Geographic hardcover - rear of dust jacket and spine
  • Water, Prey, and Game Birds of North America by Alexander Wetmore, 1965 National Geographic hardcover - cloth boards and spine without jacket
  • Water, Prey, and Game Birds of North America by Alexander Wetmore, 1965 National Geographic hardcover - title spread
  • Water, Prey, and Game Birds of North America by Alexander Wetmore, 1965 National Geographic hardcover - copyright and credits page
  • Water, Prey, and Game Birds of North America by Alexander Wetmore, 1965 National Geographic hardcover - contents page
  • Water, Prey, and Game Birds of North America by Alexander Wetmore, 1965 National Geographic hardcover - pages 140-141 with color photographs
  • Water, Prey, and Game Birds of North America by Alexander Wetmore, 1965 National Geographic hardcover - inside of dust jacket with flaps
  • Water, Prey, and Game Birds of North America by Alexander Wetmore, 1965 National Geographic hardcover - Bird Sounds record album in rear
  • Water, Prey, and Game Birds of North America by Alexander Wetmore, 1965 National Geographic hardcover - bird sound records pages 3-4
  • Water, Prey, and Game Birds of North America by Alexander Wetmore, 1965 National Geographic hardcover - bird sound records pages 5-6
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Water, Prey, and Game Birds of North America

Water, Prey, and Game Birds of North America

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Condition: Like New

Book Notes: Cloth boards are clean and bright with minimal shelf wear. Binding is tight. Pages are clean. Dust jacket has light edge wear and a small discolored mark on the inside; $11.95 price not clipped. Bird Sounds record album (Peter Paul Kellogg) is present, spiral-bound inside the rear cover.

Author(s): Alexander Wetmore

Print: 1st Print

Publication year: 1965

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: National Geographic Society

Condition: Like New
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A National Geographic Society volume on the birds of North America, with Alexander Wetmore, former Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as chief author, and contributions from twenty scientists including Robert Cushman Murphy, Dean Amadon and Roger Tory Peterson. Its 464 pages and 643 pictures, 600 in color, describe 329 North American species, from loons and herons to hawks, owls and game birds.

The opening chapter traces the history of birds from lizardlike ancestors of 200 million years ago; other chapters cover migration, extinction and conservation. An album of six records by Peter Paul Kellogg of Cornell University, Bird Sounds of Marsh, Upland and Shore, is bound in the back. A companion to Song and Garden Birds of North America.

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