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The Imperative Call
Alexander Skutch portrays his life as an intrepid naturalist in his own personal style. This autobiography and natural history recounts his early years growing up in Maryland and …
Orioles, Blackbirds, and Their Kin
From blackbirds and orioles to meadowlarks, grackles, and cowbirds, the variety and variation shown by members of the family Icteridae is legend. The family exhibits great …
Armonización: Aportes filosóficos para la biología y la ética ambiental: una antología
Alexander Skutch, el renombrado naturalista que vivi m s de 60 a os en P rez Zeled n, siempre ubicaba sus investigaciones ornitol gicas y bot nicas en una dimensi n filos fica. El …
Helpers at Birds' Nests
In this work naturalist and ornithologist Alexander Skutch provides detailed accounts of a remarkable aspect of bird behaviour - the aid that one bird gives another who is neither …
Trogons, Laughing Falcons and Other Neotropical Birds
This book reveals the lifetime dedication of an expert naturalist who for seventy years has studied birds in tropical America, from Mexico to Peru and Venezuela.
Golden Core of Religion
First Published in 1970, The Golden Core of Religion develops the view that religion's chief contribution to humanity has been its capacity to care deeply about things. More than …
Birds of Costa Rica
At the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts an astonishing array of plants and animals—over half a million species! Ecotourists, birders, and biologists come …
The Minds of Birds
In this controversial culmination of a lifelong quest, Alexander F. Skutch, a well-known ornithologist who has studied birds for more than sixty years, makes a case for "believing …
Antbirds and Ovenbirds
Western Books Exhibition, Rounce and Coffin ClubAntbirds and ovenbirds, two of the five largest families of birds found only in the Western Hemisphere, have been among Alexander …
A Naturalist in Costa Rica
A Naturalist in Costa Rica picks up Alexander Skutch's story when he went to that country in 1935, the year ""The Imperative Call"" ends. There his dream of establishing a …
A Naturalist amid Tropical Splendor
La finca de un naturalista
Durante casi 70 años, Alexander Skutch residió en su finca Los Cusingos, ubicada cerca de San Isidro de El General, en Pérez Zeledón. Allí, al borde de un río claro y el verdoso …