Author: WAHL, TERENCE R. ; BILL TWIET, STEVEN G. MLODINOW, EDITORS
Title: Birds of Washington Status and Distribution
Description: Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2005. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 0870710494. Illustrated by Kelly M. Cassidy, Shaneen Finnegan, G. Scott Mills. Hardcover is blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. Other than previous owner's name on front end paper, book appears as If unsed. Pages are clean and tight. Exhaustively illustrated with hundreds of b/w maps, drawings and charts. Sections include: bird Habitats of Washington; Maps of Seasonal Distribution; Avian Conservation; Evolution of Field Ornithology in Washington; Changes in Status and Distribution since 1950; Species Accounts; references; appendix; author biographies; index of birds; definitions. "Unlike many other state bir books, this wolumed relates changes in the avian population to the effects of human population, habitat modification, and natural events, and identifies curent threats such as forest practices, farming, fishing, irrigation, and waste management..." Very oversized/heavy; 6#. ; Maps, drawings, charts; 1.6 x 10.9 x 8.2 Inches; ix, 436 pages; Hardcover has very slight bumping; previous owner's name tidily written in upper corner of front end paper. DJ has faint rubbing; in a mylar cover.. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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