Bøker i Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series-serien

After nearly 20 years of travelling around the globe searching for toads, frogs, salamanders, snakes, lizards and turtles, herpetologist Paul Freed pauses to tell stories of his adventures finding and collecting reptiles and amphibians from the tropics of Costa Rica to the deserts of Namibia.

Changes in chimney construction and homeowner attitudes had contributed to a major decline in the numbers of Chimney Swifts. With narrative, photos, and drawings, this book explores Chimney Swift natural history and provide practical guidelines for homeowners to coexist peacefully with these remarkable spring and summer guests.

Living and gardening in Central Texas since 1969, Bill Scheick has celebrated successes and analysed failures; techniques and plants that worked in one yard did not necessarily work in another just a few miles away. In Adventures of Texas Gardening, Scheick shares, through personal accounts as well as stories from fellow gardeners, big gardening efforts.

A photographic guide to seventy-seven species of grass that grow in the Texas Hill Country and beyond. It contains: handy thumb guides to seed head type; color photographs of stands of grasses and close-ups; information about economic uses, habitat, range, and flowering season; and quick-reference icons for native status, toxicity, and others.

Some 111 million years ago, deep in the heart of Texas, a herd of twenty-ton dinosaurs sauntered across a wet mud flat. Their footprints eventually became frozen in stone, leaving a sign of one fleeting moment of a particular day in the lives of these magnificent creatures. Today, after mountains of time have passed, the story of dinosaurs in what is now Texas is being reconstructed, footprint by footprint, bone by bone. Lone Star Dinosaurs tells that story, along with the exciting tale of the discoveries that have opened a peephole into the past. Behind each fossil find, there is not just a dinosaur but a person-- sometimes a child--whose spark of curiosity lights the picture of prehistory. This is a thrilling story, engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, through which young and old alike can enter the world of the dinosaurs and the world of the dinosaur hunters. Dinosaurs are a Texas legacy from worlds long past. Pleurocoelus, Alamosaurus, Acrocanthosaurus, Chasmosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, and Tenontosaurus are among the representatives Texas boasts of every basic group of dinosaurs--a remarkable diversity that samples nearly the entire range of dinosaurian development over an immense expanse of time. In fact, the three dinosaur-bearing areas within the state--the Panhandle, Central Texas, and Big Bend--yield treasures of vastly different ages, from the beginning of the Mesozoic Era more than 200 million years ago to the time of the big extinction some 66 million years ago. These dinosaurs lived in such different arrangements of the continents and oceans that they may as well have lived in different worlds. Their stories offer a compelling picture of the history of life on our planet.

With more than a hundred color photographs, this book reflects the author's penchant for the state's insect life, especially dragonflies, as well as his long affection for Texas birds.