Research Catalog

Title

Architecture by birds and insects : a natural art / written and illustrated by Peggy Macnamara ; contributors, John M. Bates and James H. Boone ; with a foreword by David Quammen.

Author

Macnamara, Peggy.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press : In association with the Field Museum, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bates, John, 1951-
• Boone, James H.
• Field Museum of Natural History

Description

xxi, 141 p. : col. ill.; 16 x 24 cm.

Subject

• Birds > Nests
• Birds > Nests > Pictorial works
• Insects > Habitations
• Insects > Habitations > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• illustrated books.
• Illustrated works
• Pictorial works
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-141).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / David Quammen -- Nests / by Robert Cording -- Cover plate: Montezuma oropendola -- Variety of bird nests -- Introduction / by Peggy Macnamara -- pt. 1. Nests made by sewing, weaving, and binding. Sewing and weaving ; Caddisfly larvae ; Bagworm larvae ; Ant garden ; Black and yellow Argiope ; Village weaver ; Swifts ; Wrens ; Osprey ; Pie-billed grebe ; Bald eagle ; European white stork -- pt. 2. Nests made of paper. Paper wasp ; Polybia wasp ; Pasteboard wasp ; Wasp nest in palm ; Ant nests -- pt. 3. Nests made of mud. Mud nests ; Ovenbirds ; Potter wasps ; Mud daubers ; Polybia wasp -- pt. 4. Nests made by depressions and mounds ; Mound builders ; Fawn-breasted bowerbird ; Sandhill crane ; Game birds ; Emu, tinamou, and kiwi ; Termite mound ; Termites ; Fungus garden -- pt. 5. Nests made by carving wood. Wood carvers ; Woodpeckers ; Carpenter ants in aspen stump -- pt. 6. Nests found close to home. Cardinal, red-winged blackbird, brown-headed cowbird, and meadowlark ; Red-eyed vireo, northern oriole, yellow warbler, brownheaded cowbird, and scarlet tanager ; Robin, vireos, thrush, and redstart ; Herons ; Tent caterpillars ; Bald-faced hornets ; Backyard bees and wasps ; High-rise spider.

ISBN

• 9780226500973 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0226500977 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007031847

OCLC

• 163604442
• SCSB-10476512

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library