Newark Museum Skies Alive Saturday Family Festival celebrates feathered friends
One of nature’s great performances — fall bird migration — is in full swing in New Jersey. To enhance the appreciation of this natural phenomenon, the Newark Museum is conducting an educational program entitled Skies Alive & Family Activities, on…
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The Inner Bird: Anatomy and Evolution $37.23 The Inner Bird introduces readers to the avian skeleton, then moves beyond anatomy to discuss the relationships between birds and dinosaurs and other early ancestors. Gary Kaiser examines the challenges scientists face in understanding avian evolution – even recent advances in biomolecular genetics have failed to provide a clear evolutionary story. Using examples from recently discovered fossils o…

The Illustrated Bald Eagle (The Denny Rogers Visual Reference series) $15.45 Written with the artist or sculptor in mind, this painstakingly detailed reference to the bald eagle covers the anatomy of the bird down to a feather. Exact anatomical sketches—done in multiple dimensions, from various angles, and in many different postures—provide a visual study unmatched by other references. Some drawings focus specifically on one part of the bird, such as a single con…

Vision, Brain, and Behavior in Birds (Bradford Books) $95.00 The visual capacities of birds rival even those of primates, and their visual system probably reflects the operation of a ground plan common to all vertebrates. This book provides the first comprehensive and current review of considerable progress made over the past decade in analyzing neural and behavioral mechanisms mediating visually guided behavior in birds. The book’s five major sections d…