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Some books about nature. Not even remotely comprehensive. Owl: A Year in the Lives of North American Owls Am Why Ducks do That: 40 Distinctive Waterfowl Behaviors Explained and Photographed Am The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals―and Other Forgotten Skills Am 100 Nature Hot Spots in Ontario: The Best Parks, Conservation Areas and Wild Places Pub How to Spot an Owl GB Includes tips on how to find an owl through its signs. Hawks and Owls of Eastern North America GB Coffee table book. North American Owls: Journey Through A Shadowed World GB Another coffee table book. A profile of each species of owl per chapter Chasing Warblers GB Describes the adventures of a couple trying to photograph 52 species of warblers. A Field Guide to Household Bugs GB Even your house has life in it... How to Spot Butterflies GB Has the most detailed information on how to find butterflies. Has a chapter on butterfly gardening. Quality of species profiles unknown. Covers common North American species. Extreme Insects Am A Dazzle of Dragonflies GB Coffee table book on dragonflies. *An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles GB A coffee table book for beetles. Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos GB *The Man Who Loved Wasps: A Howard Ensign Evans Reader GB *Solitary Wasps: Behavior and Natural History GB *Mayflies: Major Eastern and Midwestern Hatches GB Common mayflies. Great color photographs. *Fishbugs: The Aquatic Insects of an Eastern Fly Fisher GB Coffetable book Extraordinary Animals: An Encyclopedia of Curious and Unusual Animals GB Fish Watching: An Outdoor Guide to Freshwater Fishes GB Tips on how to find fish without a rod and reel. The Book of Forest and Thicket GB The Book of Swamp and Bog GB The Book of Field and Roadside GB The coverage of these three books is eastern North America. These books are not field guides in the conventional sense. Only common plants are covered but the write ups on each plant is superb. The write ups explores the connections between plants, bugs and their habitats. This makes these books more interesting than typical field guides and is likely to attract interest from bugsters. Ontario's Old Growth Forests Pub Am A field guide not on trees but where you can find pockets of the oldest forests in Ontario. Remarkable Trees of the World Pub GB Features many of the oddest trees in the world. A Natural History of Ferns GB Very few books cover the natural history of ferns, but this one does. Naturalist's Guide to Observing Nature GB This book encourages you to get the most out of your nature experience; to go beyond just identification to learning and understanding the interconnections in nature. How Long Things Live GB The Big, Bad Book of Beasts GB Dam Builders: The Natural History of Beavers and their Ponds Am [Not yet released] Eating Insects. Eating Insects As Food. Edible Insects and Bugs, Insect Breeding, Most Popular Insects to Eat, Cooking Ideas, Restaurants and Where To GB Edible Insects: Future Prospects for Food and Feed Security GB Natural History of Insects Am The Fireflies Book: Fun Facts About the Fireflies You Loved as a Kid Am The Mosquito Book: An Entertaining, Fact-filled Look at the Dreaded Pesky Bloodsuckers Am The Kingdom of Fungi Am An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles GB The Giant Silkmoths: Colour, Mimicry & Camouflage Am Landscape: Progress towards a philosophy of sustainable occupancy ISLAND OF BIODIVERSITY: natural history of the North Russell shale hill Art and Science in the South Nation Watershed A PLACE TO WALK: A Naturalists' journal of the Lake Ontario Waterfront Trail OWLS IN NORTH AMERICA (coloring book) QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS' CUMSHEWA HEAD TRAIL WILD SEASONS DAYBOOK How to Live in Eastern Ontario: A guide for Human People CANADIAN NATURE NOTEBOOK Pub A group of local Ontario books Beetles: The Natural History and Diversity of Coleoptera Am Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells Am |