1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462904003321

Autore

Beedy Edward C

Titolo

Birds of the Sierra Nevada : their natural history, status, and distribution / / Edward C. Beedy and Edward R. Pandolfino ; illustrated by Keith Hansen ; foreword by Rich Stallcup

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-520-95447-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (445 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

StallcupRich

HansenKeith

PandolfinoEdward R

Disciplina

598.09794/4

Soggetti

Birds - Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Birds of the Sierra Nevada -- Front matter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- ECOLOGICAL ZONES AND BIRD HABITATS -- RECENT TRENDS IN SIERRA BIRD POPULATIONS AND RANGES -- UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT SIERRA BIRDS -- BIRD CONSERVATION IN THE SIERRA -- Family and Species Accounts -- WATERFOWL · Anatidae -- QUAIL · Odontophoridae -- FOWL-LIKE BIRDS · Phasianidae -- LOONS · Gaviidae -- GREBES · Podicipedidae -- CORMORANTS · Phalacrocoracidae -- PELICANS · Pelecanidae -- HERONS AND RELATIVES · Ardeidae -- IBIS · Threskiornithidae -- NEW WORLD VULTURES · Cathartidae -- OSPREY · Pandionidae -- HAWKS AND RELATIVES · Accipitridae -- FALCONS · Falconidae -- RAILS AND RELATIVES · Rallidae -- CRANES · Gruidae -- PLOVERS · Charadriidae -- STILTS AND AVOCETS · Recurvirostridae -- SANDPIPERS AND RELATIVES · Scolopacidae -- GULLS AND TERNS · Laridae -- PIGEONS AND DOVES · Columbidae -- CUCKOOS AND ROADRUNNERS · Cuculidae -- BARN OWL · Tytonidae -- TYPICAL OWLS · Strigidae -- NIGHTHAWKS AND RELATIVES · Caprimulgidae -- SWIFTS · Apodidae -- HUMMINGBIRDS ·



Trochilidae -- KINGFISHERS · Alcedinidae -- WOODPECKERS · Picidae -- TYRANT FLYCATCHERS · Tyrannidae -- SHRIKES · Laniidae -- VIREOS · Vireonidae -- JAYS AND RELATIVES · Corvidae -- LARKS · Alaudidae -- SWALLOWS · Hirundinidae -- CHICKADEES AND TITMICE · Paridae -- VERDIN · Remizidae -- BUSHTIT · Aegithalidae -- NUTHATCHES · Sittidae -- CREEPERS · Certhiidae -- WRENS · Troglodytidae -- GNATCATCHERS · Polioptilidae -- DIPPERS · Cinclidae -- KINGLETS · Regulidae -- WRENTIT · Sylviidae -- THRUSHES AND RELATIVES · Turdidae -- MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS · Mimidae -- STARLINGS · Sturnidae -- PIPITS · Motacillidae -- WAXWINGS · Bombycillidae -- SILKY FLYCATCHERS · Ptilogonatidae -- WOOD-WARBLERS · Parulidae -- SPARROWS AND RELATIVES · Emberizidae -- GROSBEAKS AND RELATIVES · Cardinalidae -- BLACKBIRDS AND RELATIVES · Icteridae -- FINCHES AND RELATIVES · Fringillidae -- OLD WORLD SPARROWS · Passeridae -- Appendices -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index of Common Names Index of Common Names -- Index of Scientific Names -- About the Authors and Artist

Sommario/riassunto

This beautifully illustrated and user-friendly book presents the most up-to-date information available about the natural histories of birds of the Sierra Nevada, the origins of their names, the habitats they prefer, how they communicate and interact with one another, their relative abundance, and where they occur within the region. Each species account features original illustrations by Keith Hansen. In addition to characterizing individual species, Birds of the Sierra Nevada also describes ecological zones and bird habitats, recent trends in populations and ranges, conservation efforts, and more than 160 rare species. It also includes a glossary of terms, detailed maps, and an extensive bibliography with over 500 citations.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789685003321

Titolo

St. Oswald of Worcester : life and influence / / edited by Nicholas Brooks and Catherine Cubitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Leicester University Press, , 1996

ISBN

1-283-19690-5

9786613196903

0-567-34031-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 365 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Studies in the early history of Britain

The makers of England ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

BrooksNicholas

CubittCatherine

Disciplina

270.3/092

B

Soggetti

Great Britain Church history 449-1066

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; 1 St Oswald: monk, bishop and archbishop; 2 Oswald, Fleury and continental reform; 3 St Oswald's family and kin; 4 Byrhtferth and Oswald; 5 The community of Worcester, 961-c.1100; 6 St Oswald's tenants; 7 Oswaldslow: an 'immunity'?; 8 The city of Worcester in the tenth century; 9 The administrative landscape of the diocese of Worcester in the tenth century; 10 St Oswald and 10,000 West Midland peasants; 11 Book production and decoration at Worcester in the tenth and eleventh centuries

12 Saint-making and relic collecting by Oswald and his communities; 13 St Oswald and St Wulfstan; 14 The liturgical manuscripts of Oswald's houses; 15 Some reflections on liturgical music at late Anglo-Saxon Worcester; Index; Index of charters; Index of manuscripts

Sommario/riassunto

St Oswald was the youngest of the three great monastic reformers of tenth-century England, whose work transformed English religious, intellectual and political life. Certainly a more attractive and perhaps a more effective figure than either St Dunstan or St Ethelwold, Oswald's impact upon his cathedrals at Worcester and York and upon his West



Midland and East Anglian monasteries was radical and lasting. In this volume, researchers throw light on St Oswald's background, career, influence and cult and on the society that he helped to shape. His cathedral at Worcester and his monastery at Ramsey