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Informationen zum Autor TIMOTHY BRUSH is an associate professor of biology at the University of Texas - Pan American in Edinburg. He has been observing, studying, and writing about the birds of the Lower Rio Grande Valley for over a decade. Klappentext Halfway between Dallas and Mexico City! along the last few hundred miles of the Rio Grande! lies a subtropical outpost where people come from all over the world to see birds. Located between the temperate north and the tropic south! with desert to the west and ocean to the east! the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas provides habitat for a variety of birds seen nowhere else in the United States. If you want to see a Hooked-billed Kite! Muscovy Duck! or Altamira Oriole! this is the place. Drawing on years of personal observation and study! Timothy Brush has written a classic work of natural history about the little-known breeding bird communities of the Valley and the diversity of nesting strategies and behaviors that can be seen. Brush estimates that there are more than 150 current breeding species in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. In Zusammenfassung Drawing on years of personal observation and study! the author writes a work of natural history about the little-known breeding bird communities of the Valley and the diversity of nesting strategies and behaviors that can be seen. Art and color photographs by several of Texas' top nature photographers show off some of the Valley's famous birds.
