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A comprehensive book on Rowe Sanctuary, which sits strategically along the central Platte River near Gibbon, Neb., located at the nexus of the migration routes for up to 600,000 sandhill cranes each spring.
Features of the Rowe Sanctuary book include
Steve and Jude have combined their skills to publish a book about cranes focused on strengthening our bonds with nature. The book is part biology, part poetry, part imagination, and a lot of unique art.
A pair of piping plovers struggle to raise their young on a beach where humans and their influence threaten both parents and chicks. Biologists help out by erecting a protective exclosure and all survive. Readers learn the importance of habitat for wild animals.
Appreciate the Adornment of Birds with this paperback book by Stan Tekeila, a National Outdoor Book Award Honorable Mention recipient
Feathers--possible the most amazing body covering in the entire animal kingdom. No other covering does all that feathers do. From the delicate down that keep birds warm to the sturdy flight feathers that allow them to soar, these marvelous structures are something to admire. This book is filled with stunning, incomparable photos, and it promises to delight as it walks you through the world of feathers.
The quintessential pocket guide to understanding crane behavior--ever wondered what wing positioning, neck posture, or movements are communicating between cranes? This handy guide can help you figure it out! Covering social body language, dancing, defense, attack, and nesting and more.
Looking to learn more about what's growing in Nebraska? This handy pocket guide gives a good overview of wildflowers, trees, shrubs, and grasses that are most common in the State. Color illustrations and descriptions help to jump-start your botanical exploration!
A folding guide to familiar species, this Pocket Naturalist guide provides beautiful illustrations of common birds of Nebraska, and is a great key to start birding with. Explore waterbirds, nearshore birds, birds of prey, perching berds, swifts, woodpeckers, and game birds!
Nebraska Off the Beaten Path features the things travelers and locals want to see and experience––if only they knew about them. From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales, Nebraska Off the Beaten Path takes the reader down the road less traveled and reveals a side of Nebraska that other guidebooks just don't offer.
By Jon Farrar, this guide is a go-to for how to find species of interest across Nebraska. Explore off-the beaten path birding locations, and revisit your favorites with new eyes!
Make bird watching in Nebraska even more enjoyable! With Stan Tekiela’s famous field guide, bird identification is simple and informative. There’s no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don’t live in your area. This book features 117 species of Nebraska birds, organized by color for ease of use. Do you see a yellow bird and don’t know what it is? Go to the yellow section to find out. Fact-filled information, a compare feature, range maps, and detailed photographs help to ensure that you positively identify the birds that you see.
Featuring 100 species of birds from coast to coast this colorful guide helps kids identify and understand birds. The National Geographic Kids Bird Guide of North America will be both accessible and tons of fun. Fifty of the country's most popular birds will be laid out in stunning two-page spreads that will include information such as their range,the sounds they make, and the food they like to eat. Each profile will also include a cool or weird fun fact, and a feature called "A Closer Look," which digs deeper into one aspect of the bird's life (eating habits, bird songs, etc.). Each profile will also display a fact box with the bird's scientific name, weight, length, and wingspan.
Kids will also find tons of fun facts, bright and bold colors, full-color photographs, and layering of information that makes everything jump off the page. Birds will be organized by habitat, and habitat spreads will show where different birds live within each environment. The guide also explains all the basics that kids need to know about spotting birds. Features will include activities, such as how to build a birdhouse and how to build a bird feeder, sidebars highlighting fascinating info, lists, range maps, and much more. Conservation information, a find out more section, glossary, and index will add ample back matter to round out this book.
I love you every day of all four seasons... for all you feel and do and share ..." A celebration of love and loving, from parent to child! I Love You...Unconditionally is the perfect book to share with a child, expressing the unconditional love offered by parent, grandparent, or caregiver, no matter what the child does or feels on any given day. Told through beautiful, original paintings of Sandhill Cranes as they care tenderly for their young from nest to migration, I Love You... Unconditionally creates a special moment of 'snuggle time' with your baby or child. The other neighbors of the Sandhill Crane habitat are present as well, to say 'Hi" to your child to help them learn about how we share our home and habitat with so many others in nature.The book includes brief educational text to help an older child understand the richness of the natural world we all share. Perfect for teachers, classrooms, early readers as well as pre-readers, and for all caregivers alike to open a child's eyes to the love felt for them, just as they are, and to the beauty around them!
Take a look inside the lives of sandhill cranes with this informative little book put together by Rowe's former Education Director, Keanna Leonard, and volunteer Caryl McHarney. Private Lives of Sandhill Cranes focuses on crane behavior, but includes lots of interesting facts about sandhill cranes and cranes in general.
"...and the sky blackened with dark, gray bodies. In the blurry confusion, John lost Mary." So begins Have You Seen Mary?, a fictional account of one sandhill crane's faithful search during spring migration for his lost mate. Set on Nebraska's Platte River, Jeff Kurrus weaves a tender story of love while also teaching us about these majestic birds. Supported with wondrous color photographs taken by Michael Forsberg, this paperback book will appeal to all ages for its ability to entertain as well as educate readers about sandhill cranes.
Cranes can soar with your support!