Magpie S Bend

Author : Maya Linnell
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781761061974

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Magpie's Bend by Maya Linnell Pdf

A pitch-perfect rural romance of community and family from the bestselling author of Bottlebrush Creek. 'A ripping good read...Maya's deep understanding of living in country Australia and down-to-earth good humour gives her story great authenticity...We can't wait for the next book to find out what happens to another member of the McIntyre sisterhood.' - Australian Country on Bottlebrush Creek 'Maya's books reek of authenticity and celebrate everything that's wonderful about small-town living' - Cassie Hamer, top 10 of 2021 Bush nurse Lara McIntyre and journalist Toby Paxton are thrust into the limelight when an accident puts the beating heart of their community in jeopardy. The small country town of Bridgefield can't manage without their general store and post office, but Lara can't stomach the idea of out-of-town buyers revamping it with no regard for what the residents want or need. She's also unsure about where Toby's allegiances lie in this fight. Loyalties are put to the test as the locals attempt to save the shop, with personal agendas, old grudges and misunderstandings threatening their best efforts. Featuring a black-tie ball, a fun run, a magpie called Vegemite and a snake-chasing kelpie called Basil, Magpie's Bend is a story about rural lives, family, love and letting go.

Author : Kate Blair
Publisher : DCB
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781770865556

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The Magpie's Library by Kate Blair Pdf

Silva and her family visit her grandfather, only to find his health has taken a bad turn. As they struggle with this news, Silva seeks escape in books – at the local library. But she gets more than she bargained for when a magpie guides her to a secret, magical room containing books that she can not only read, but that she can live. Silva finds herself in the worlds of the characters … who all turn out to be real people. People she knows. There’s a catch, though: she soon discovers that the magpie has lured her to these books for selfish and dark reasons. Going back to the books could mean losing her soul …

Author : Tim Birkhead
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781408137765

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The Magpies: The Ecology and Behaviour of Black-Billed and Yellow-Billed Magpies by Tim Birkhead Pdf

Magpies are unmistakeable in their appearance, voice and extrovert, arrogant manner. While their persecution at the hands of gamekeepers over the last hundred years has made them wary and difficult to approach, a number of recent field studies, both in Europe and North America, have successfully revealed the intricacies of the magpie way of life. Two species of magpie feature in this book, the Black-billed Magpie, familiar to most Europeans, which occurs throughout much of the northern hemisphere, and the Yellow-billed Magpie, which is confined to California. Tim Birkhead has studied both species, and has produced a fascinating account of their ecology and behaviour. Many of the results from his ten-year study of magpies in northern England are published here for the first time. Particularly revealing however is his comparison of the two species and of their different races. Magpies occur in a wide range of habitats, including English farmland, the deserts of North America, the mountains of Saudi Arabia and the windswept plateaus of Tibet. As this book explains, magpies are able to exploit this diversity of habitats largely through their remarkably flexible social behaviour. The Magpies covers all aspects of their lives, including their marital relationships, food hoarding behaviour, longevity and survival, nesting behaviour, breeding success and their controversial relationship with man. The text is supported by numerous photographs, diagrams and tables, and superb illustrations by David Quinn. Illustrated by David Quinn

Author : Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Birds
ISBN : MINN:31951000115767F

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Life Histories of North American [birds].: Jays, crows and titmice by Arthur Cleveland Bent Pdf

Author : Daniel Allen,Marc Allum,Simon Flynn
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781848317413

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A Charm of Magpies by Daniel Allen,Marc Allum,Simon Flynn Pdf

The Science Magpie is Simon Flynn's bestselling collection of enthralling facts, stories, poems and more from science's history, from the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton. With Antiques Roadshow regular Marc Allum as your guide, go in search of stolen masterpieces, explore the first museums, learn the secrets of the forgers and brush up on your auction technique with The Antiques Magpie . And with acclaimed nature writer Daniel Allen, join naturalists, novelists and poets as they explore the most isolated parts of the planet and discover which plants can be used to predict the weather in The Nature Magpie .

Author : Steve Burrows
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459737624

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A Tiding of Magpies by Steve Burrows Pdf

Domenic Jejeune finds himself looking back into the case that made him a star. Under a punishing spotlight and with his girlfriend, Lindy, in grave danger, Jejeune must catch a murderer on the loose while keeping his career — and life — intact.

Author : Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547189503

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Life Histories of North American Jays, Crows, and Titmice by Arthur Cleveland Bent Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Life Histories of North American Jays, Crows, and Titmice" by Arthur Cleveland Bent. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : George E. Hyde
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806174778

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Life of George Bent by George E. Hyde Pdf

George Bent, the son of William Bent, one of the founders of Bent's Fort on the Arkansas near present La Junta, Colorado, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, began exchanging letters in 1905 with George E. Hyde of Omaha concerning life at the fort, his experiences with his Cheyenne kinsmen, and the events which finally led to the military suppression of the Indians on the southern Great Plains. This correspondence, which continued to the eve of Bent's death in 1918, is the source of the narrative here published, the narrator being Bent himself. Almost ninety years have elapsed since the day in 1930 when Mr. Hyde found it impossible to market the finished manuscript of the Bent life down to 1866. (The Depression had set in some months before.) He accordingly sold that portion of the manuscript to the Denver Public Library, retaining his working copy, which carries down to 1875. The account therefore embraces the most stirring period, not only of Bent's own life, but of life on the Plains and into the Rockies. It has never before been published. It is not often that an eyewitness of great events in the West tells his own story. But Bent's narrative, aside from the extent of its chronology (1826 to 1875), has very special significance as an inside view of Cheyenne life and action after the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, which cost so many of the lives of Bent's friends and relatives. It is hardly probable that we shall achieve a more authentic view of what happened, as the Cheyennes, Arapahos, and Sioux saw it.

Author : Linda Rasmussen
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477288320

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Book Three: Spies at Rayon Junction by Linda Rasmussen Pdf

In Book Three: Spies at Rayon Junction, Gerry and his classmate, Shane, continue their journey through Cookie County, unaware that the gold keys they each carry have special powers. On their way to Balloon Field, where Trent, the hot air balloon pilot, is waiting to take them for a ride, they pass through the Rayon Junction Train Station. While they are there, they meet many peculiar citizens of Mydreama, including, Uncle David, the engineer of the Mountain Wildcat. They also find out that they are being followed by many ominous-looking blackbirds, but they have no clue that these birds are after their keys. When the boys finally reach the balloon, they are joined by the mysterious teacher that gave them the keys. With her is one their classmates, Dawnie, who joins Gerry and Shane on a very adventurous trip in the hot air balloon. While they are sailing across Cookie County, they see the Black-eyed Hills, just before a rare cotton ball storm disables their balloon, causing them to crash into the Raisin River. The adventure continues, as the gondola of the airship is transformed into a sailing vessel. Then, while they are sleeping, the currents pull them into the slower-moving Sweetwater River of the Sugar Hills, where they become stuck in a sugar slide. Gerrys sparrow friend comes to find them and takes, Mac and Tosh, two stowaway Knottys, to the Jamthumb Ranch to get help. In the meantime, the stranded castaways must figure out how to get their stuck craft out of the sugar, but are interrupted by two curious sugarbears. When their very angry mother shows up to claim her lost cubs, the kids are able to get away from her and get their boat back in the river, by eating some of Ms. Razzleberrys miraculous Jillybeans.

Author : Joseph L. Guarino,Edward W. Schafer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Bird pests
ISBN : UOM:39015095043835

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Magpie Reduction in an Urban Roost by Joseph L. Guarino,Edward W. Schafer Pdf

From 80 to 85 percent of about 250 black-billed magpies (Pica pica hudsonia) in an urban roost were killed with poultry pellets treated with 2 percent 4-aminopyridine, a chemical frightening agent. Before death, birds exhibited typical distress reactions, but other magpies were attracted rather than repelled, as expected, by this behavior. Bait was exposed in metal troughs for 1.5 hours on 4 successive evenings. Four months later a second population of about 280 birds using the same roost was reduced 75 percent with pellets treated with 1 percent DRC-1339 (3-chloro-p-toluidine hydrochloride), a lethal agent. One year later the populatino contained only 85 birds. Both chemicals were effective in reducing magpie numbers, but from the standpoint of hazards to mammals and number of treatments needed, DRC-1339 appears more suitable.

Author : John Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591023881

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A rhyming dictionary by John Walker Pdf

Author : John WALKER (the Philologist.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019896009

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A rhyming dictionary ... Fourth edition, improved by John WALKER (the Philologist.) Pdf

Author : John Walker (the Philologist.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B900063121

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A Rhyming Dictionary: Answering, at the Same Time, the Purposes of Spelling and Pronouncing the English Language, Etc by John Walker (the Philologist.) Pdf

Author : William Perry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1356 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : English language
ISBN : NYPL:33433070243500

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The Royal Standard English Dictionary by William Perry Pdf

Author : John WALKER (the Philologist.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023492800

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A Rhyming Dictionary: answering, at the same time, the purposes of spelling and pronouncing the English language, on a plan not hitherto attempted ... and ... an index of allowable rhymes ... The second edition, improved by John WALKER (the Philologist.) Pdf