Biography - Skutch, Alexander F(rank) (1904-2004): An ...
This digital document, covering the life and work of Alexander F(rank) Skutch, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2105 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical ... [... more]
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Trogons, Laughing Falcons, and Other Neotropical Birds
Renowned naturalist Alexander F. Skutch's critically acclaimed book The Minds of Birds first introduced a controversial review of bird behavior. Now, in possibly his last book on birds, he reflects on a memorable career brimming with discovery and ... [... more]
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Naturalist In Costa Rica
In The Imperative Call, Alexander F. Skutch recounts his early years growing up in Maryland and Maine and his adventures in Central America and Jamaica during the 1920s and 1930s, well before modernization affected the region, when the began his classic ... [... more]
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The Minds of Birds (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural ...
"Soon after I began to study birds," writes Alexander Skutch, "I began to wonder about their psychic lives." After a lifetime of investigation, the esteemed ornithologist has come to believe that the tiny brain of a bird is indeed ... [... more]
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Trogons, Laughing Falcons, and Other Neotropical Birds ...
Insights on some interesting neotropical bird species. This may be Skutch's last book--the culmination of seven decades of careful observation of hundreds of bird species. Here he has selected some very interesting neotropicals and offers his own ... [... more]
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The Imperative Call: A Naturalist's Quest in Temperate ...
In The Imperative Call, Alexander F. Skutch recounts his early years growing up in Maryland and Maine and his adventures in Central America and Jamaica during the 1920s and 1930s, well before modernization affected the region, when the began his classic ... [... more]
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Costa Rican Bird Song Sampler
This compact disc contains 184 of the most often heard Costa Rican birds (nearly a third of the country's resident species). The sounds are numbered and sequenced to follow the order in which they appear in the plates in A Guide to the Birds of Costa ... [... more]
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A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica (Comstock Book)
Costa Rica, a country of no larger than West Virginia, hosts more than 830 species of birds, more than in all of North Amerian north of Mexico. It may well be the only country in the world with as many bird species and habitats to be found in such a ... [... more]
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Alexander Skutch: An Appreciation
In addition to being one of the most prolific nature writers of our time and the world's greatest expert on Central American birds, Alexander Skutch was an inspiring moral philosopher and original thinker in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau and John ... [... more]
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Journey Without Distance: The Story Behind A Course in ...
With more than 1.5 million copies in print, A Course in Miracles is one of the most popular texts for self-actualization. A self-study course designed to help change one's perceptions, A Course in Miracles was recorded over a seven-year period by Dr. ... [... more]
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Journey Without Distance : The Story Behind a Course in ...
With more than 1.5 million copies in print, A Course in Miracles is one of the most popular texts for self-actualization. A self-study course designed to help change one's perceptions, A Course in Miracles was recorded over a seven-year period by Dr. ... [... more]
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Birds of Tropical America: A Watcher's Introduction to ...
" Birds of Tropical America offers a comprehensive look into the lives of some of the most fascinating birds in the world. The book will entertain and educate the amateur birder and professional ornithologist alike and would be a valuable addition ... [... more]
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