For everyone who has seen an animal's tracks in the snow or mud or sand and wondered what had made them, here is a book that will enable anyone to identify animal tracks and their sign droppings, claw marks on trees or shrubs, and digs or dens. More than 300 color and black-and-white photos.
How to Read Animal Tracks and Signs
Renowned nature photographer Paul Rezendes offers a comprehensive field guide that illuminates North American wildlife through his expert observations. This updated edition features hundreds of original photographs and details the behavior and habitats of over 50 animal species. Readers will learn to identify animals by their tracks, tail patterns, droppings, dens, scratches, and other signs, making it an invaluable resource for nature enthusiasts and trackers alike.
The Web of Life
A magnificent journey in word and image to some of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring places in North America — our fragile wetlands.This book is a celebration — a plea for understanding and preservation — of these unique and irreplaceable meeting places of life. Embark on a journey of discovery through marshes, lakes and ponds, swamps, rivers and streams, peatlands, and coastal wetlands.
Rezendes shares his own story, evolving from motorcycle gang leader to Zen woodsman, and reveals how to live within the natural world--even in an urban setting.