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The Southern Wildlife Watcher: Notes of a Naturalist
The Southern Wildlife Watcher is a colorful look at thirty-six common and not-so-common animals found in the southeastern United States—from the hummingbird to the bald eagle and from the bullfrog to the bobcat. Rob Simbeck, one of the Southeast's most widely read naturalists, combines a poet's voice with a journalist's rigor in offering readers an intimate introduction to the creatures around us.
Through delightful storytelling each vignette offers accessible information supported by quotes from noted naturalists and biologists. Simbeck covers habitat, diet, mating and reproduction, environmental challenges, and even folklore in outlining the lives of insects and other invertebrates, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans, and fish. The Southern Wildlife Watcher is a refresher course and handbook for veteran nature lovers, an introduction for young readers, and fireplace or bedtime reading for those wanting to reflect on nature's bounty.
A foreword is provided by Jim Casada, the author or editor of more than forty books and some five thousand magazine articles. He serves as editor at large for Sporting Classics magazine.
Through delightful storytelling each vignette offers accessible information supported by quotes from noted naturalists and biologists. Simbeck covers habitat, diet, mating and reproduction, environmental challenges, and even folklore in outlining the lives of insects and other invertebrates, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans, and fish. The Southern Wildlife Watcher is a refresher course and handbook for veteran nature lovers, an introduction for young readers, and fireplace or bedtime reading for those wanting to reflect on nature's bounty.
A foreword is provided by Jim Casada, the author or editor of more than forty books and some five thousand magazine articles. He serves as editor at large for Sporting Classics magazine.
- GenresNature
218 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 28, 2020
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Rob Simbeck
17 books4 followersRob has written for The Washington Post, Field & Stream, Guideposts, Free Inquiry, Country Weekly, and many others. His poetry has appeared in Rolling Stone, Modern Haiku, Epoch, Kansas Quarterly, and others.
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May 26, 2023
4.5*
This was a great natural history read aloud for my teens and me this school year. We read a chapter a week and learned so much about our new home state. I enjoyed the author’s style and his mix of anecdotes alongside the various experts he interviewed. Evolutionary language for those who want to know.
This was a great natural history read aloud for my teens and me this school year. We read a chapter a week and learned so much about our new home state. I enjoyed the author’s style and his mix of anecdotes alongside the various experts he interviewed. Evolutionary language for those who want to know.
February 7, 2021
This is a sweet book about the joys of observing an array of wild animals in nature. I leaned a good it about some animals and just enjoy hearing from another nature lover.
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