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A Naturalist in Costa Rica

By: Alexander Frank Skutch

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A Naturalist in Costa Rica picks up Alexander F. Skutch's story in 1935, the year his memoir The Imperative Call ends. In it he recoreds his life, work, observations, and reflections during thirty-five years in the southeastern Pacific section of Costa Rica.

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382

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0813011485

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9780813011486

A Naturalist on a Tropical Farm

By: Alexander Frank Skutch

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A Naturalist on a Tropical Farm

By: Alexander Frank Skutch

The naturalist offers a portrait of his life on a farm in the tropical rain forests of Costa Rica and provides a look at flora, fauna, and the forest ecosystem

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412

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Univ of California Press

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0520041496

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9780520041493

Orioles, Blackbirds, and Their Kin

A Natural History

By: Alexander Frank Skutch

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Orioles, Blackbirds, and Their Kin

A Natural History

By: Alexander Frank Skutch

From blackbirds and orioles to meadowlarks, grackles, and cowbirds, the variety and variation shown by members of the family Icteridae is legend. The family exhibits great diversity in size and coloration, mating and nest building, and habits and habitats. This group of 94 New World species once known as the troupials is well represented in backyards across America; yet most icterids are tropical or semi-tropical species that remain largely unstudied. The least known of these species are perhaps best known to Alexander Skutch, who has studied birds in a Costa Rican tropical valley for more than half a century. In this fascinating book--the first devoted exclusively to the icterids--he combines his own observations with those of other naturalists to provide a comparative natural history and biology of this remarkable family of birds. Devoting a separate chapter to each major group or genus, he delineates the outstanding characteristics of each and includes observations of little-studied tropical species such as caciques and oropendolas. Orioles, Blackbirds, and Their Kin is an eminently readable natural history in the classic style. Enhanced by 31 scratchboard illustrations, this book will delight nature enthusiasts everywhere with its fascinating exposition of avian diversity. Because so much of the published information on the icterids is widely scattered, Skutch's painstaking compilation has created a valuable reference work that will provide students and researchers with a wealth of new insights into the tropical members of this New World family.

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316

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University of Arizona Press

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0816516014

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9780816516018

Nature Through Tropical Windows

By: Alexander Frank Skutch

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Nature Through Tropical Windows

By: Alexander Frank Skutch

Discusses house wrens, the size of animals, favorite bird foods, symbiosis, hummingbirds, trees, weeds, and other tropical wildlife

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394

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Univ of California Press

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0520047451

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9780520047457

The Imperative Call

A Naturalist's Quest in Temperate and Tropical America

By: Alexander F. Skutch

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The Imperative Call

A Naturalist's Quest in Temperate and Tropical America

By: Alexander F. Skutch

The Imperative Call explores the making of an extraordinary naturalist... No one since W. H. Hudson has approached nature from such a consistent moral position. No one has tried so scrupulously to define the murky boundary 'between science and vandalism...' Ultimately, the reader comes to see Alex Skutch not so much as a naturalist or a farmer but as an artist."-- Audubon magazine "Skutch offers us the botanical and zoological riches of the tropics, combining a gifted scientist's powers of observation with a committed humanist's reverence for life. Even those who have never been drawn to the tropics will find themselves entranced." -- American Birds In The Imperative Call, Alexander F. Skutch recounts his early years growing up in Maryland and Maine and his adventures in Central America and Jamaica during the 1920s and 1930s, well before modernization affected the region, when the began his classic studies of nesting birds. Weaving precise descriptions of tropical plan, bird, and animal life into a personal philosophy about man and nature, the book is both autobiography and natural history.

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331

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0813011493

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9780813011493

Origins of Nature's Beauty

By: Alexander Frank Skutch

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Origins of Nature's Beauty

By: Alexander Frank Skutch

Attract mates or pollinators and repel or hide from predators--all instances where quality serves the goal of increasing the quantity of a species. More than this, Skutch offers intriguing evidence that animals may possess an aesthetic sense and consciously choose beautiful objects, just as humans do. These views, running counter to prevailing mechanistic explanations of natural processes, offer food for thought to both specialists and the general public. It is Skutch's.

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292

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029276037X

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9780292760370

Tales of a Naturalist

By: Alexander Frank Skutch

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Tales of a Naturalist

By: Alexander Frank Skutch

Short stories of Costa Rica's natural resources by naturalist (b. Baltimore, 1904) resident in Costa Rica since 1941. The stories reflect the state of the country's environment during the 1930s.

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221

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996898390X

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9789968983907

The Golden Core of Religion

By: Alexander F. Skutch

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The Golden Core of Religion

By: Alexander F. Skutch

First Published in 1970, The Golden Core of Religion develops the view that religion’s chief contribution to humanity has been its capacity to care deeply about things. More than any other institutions, it has encouraged men to care- for self, for neighbours, for the varied life around us, for the natural world that supports us. The golden core of religion is devoted care. Several chapters are concerned with the various forms of caring in primitive and advanced religions and religious philosophies, Eastern and Western. Religion likewise deserves our gratitude for fostering our highest aspirations such as that for a blessed life established upon true goodness- even if it cannot assure the fulfillment of these aspirations. In the two concluding chapters, the author develops his own religious views. In our growing appreciation of this splendour and wonder of the cosmos and deepening sense of responsibility for the preservation of the beauty and health of our planet, he discerns an essentially religious attitude, a new form of religion spontaneously taking shape, without, as yet a name or organization. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of religion.

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335

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Taylor & Francis

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1003853072

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9781003853077

Life Ascending

By: Alexander Frank Skutch

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Life Ascending

By: Alexander Frank Skutch

Discusses the evolution of life on the planet earth from a philosophical viewpoint and examines earth's place in the universe

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268

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029274644X

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9780292746442

Book's by Alexander Frank Skutch

A Naturalist in Costa Rica

A Naturalist in Costa Rica

A Naturalist on a Tropical Farm

A Naturalist on a Tropical Farm

Orioles, Blackbirds, and Their Kin

Orioles, Blackbirds, and Their Kin

Nature Through Tropical Windows

Nature Through Tropical Windows

The Imperative Call

The Imperative Call

Origins of Nature's Beauty

Origins of Nature's Beauty

Tales of a Naturalist

Tales of a Naturalist

The Golden Core of Religion

The Golden Core of Religion

Life Ascending

Life Ascending

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