Last week I unearthed
a great coastal bird print that I purchased a while back and never used.
Not exact matches
Attendees will learn much about the behaviors of
birds and
great places to observe them, from
coastal destinations such as Cuttyhunk Island and Massachusetts and Maine's Machias Seal Island to the mountains of the Northeast and the
great boreal forests that stretch from northern New England into Canada.
Originally a vintage watercolor painting,
Great Blue Heron features the scientific name of this
coastal bird species in hand - written script.
The journey takes Weidensaul to the
coastal communities of Newfoundland, where he examines the devastating impact of the Atlantic cod fishery's collapse on the ecosystem; to Florida, where he charts the virtual extinction of the
great wading
bird colonies that Peterson and Fisher once documented; to the Mexican tropics of Xilitla, which have become a growing center of ecotourism since Fisher and Peterson's exposition.
The range is home to a number of important conservation targets which include, but are not limited to, at least 2 marine fish spawning aggregation sites, a breeding population of the endangered American Crocodile, and a number of threatened
coastal marine habitats including the
greater reef complex itself, beach forests that support several important species of resident and migratory
birds and at least 2 species of marine turtles are believed to nest on the range.