Profiles twenty-five animals that can be seen in the southwestern United States, including coyote, bobcat, and pronghorn.

Armed with hand lenses and opera glasses, traveling on foot, by buggy, or model T, they explored thousands of miles of deserts, forests, beaches, and jungles. They were pioneering women naturalists who observed, studied, and experimented, then returned to write up their findings. What resulted were exquisitely written and scientifically accurate accounts of their explorations into natural science - a field long dominated by men. Marcia Myers Bonta...

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Provides detailed information on identification, habitat, preferences, voice, seasoned occurrence, and abundance of more than 450 species of birds found in the Southwest.