Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

The Quotable Birder
de Bill Adler(Ed. The Lyons Press) Isbn : 1585740039
19 €
Here are all the most evocative words ever spoken--and recorded--about our feathered friends. 'Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake. . . .The wary bird draws his feet under his body, springs upon them, opens his wings, and with loud quacks bids you farewell.»--John James Audubon, The Birds of America 'No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.»--William Blake 'Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.»--Langston Hughes 'A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.»--Samuel Butler 'Magpie, n. A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.»--Ambrose Bierce Birds of all species, from starlings to blue jays, hummingbirds, eagles, and the wild turkey, have long inspired great minds to ...

Baby Bird Portraits
de George Miksch Sutton(Ed. University of Oklahoma Press) Isbn : 0806129859
23.7 €
Here are 35 watercolors of nestlings and fledglings, 19 species of North American birds painted by Sutton over three decades. The original paintings are housed in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and many of them are reproduced here for the first time. Sutton was curator of birds at the University of Oklahoma's Stovall Museum from 1952 until his death in 1982; he wrote 10 books and illustrated 15 others. Some of these watercolors were painted in Ithaca, New York, where Sutton spent 13 years as curator of birds at Cornell University; others were painted in Michigan, Oklahoma, and the Canadian arctic. Johnsgard, an ornithologist, author, and professor, has written descriptive accounts for Sutton's illustrations, offering data on the average number of eggs in the birds' nests, ...

Birds of Los Angeles: Including Santa Barbara, Ventura and Orange Counties
de Chris Fisher, Herbert Clarke(Ed. Lone Pine Publishing,Canada) Isbn : 1551051044
13.84 €
HERBERT CLARKE is a prolific author of, and photographic contributer to, nature books, most of them centered on California natural history. A keen birder since his childhood, Clarke travels far and wide across America, lecturing and leading birding tours. He is based in Glendale, California. CHRIS FISHER is a university-educated naturalist with a background in research in endangered species management and wildlife interpretation. He has conducted birding expeditions extensively throughout the United States, Canada and Thailand and is the author or co-author of eleven books on birds.

The Alex Studies â€' Cognitive Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots
de Pepperberg(Ed. Harvard University Press) Isbn : 0674008065
30.4 €
Her work is new and important. She's done groundbreaking experiments, and bringing them together in a panoramic view is a great service.

The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots
de Irene Maxine Pepperberg(Ed. Harvard University Press) Isbn : 067400051X
62.22 €
Her work is new and important. She's done groundbreaking experiments, and bringing them together in a panoramic view is a great service.

Field Guide to Western Bird Songs: Western North America
de Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology(Ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Isbn : 0395975190
28.5 €
Her is the western edition of A Field Guide to Bird Songs, the best-selling bird song collection ever recorded. This edition includes the songs and calls of 522 species -- all the most common and vocal birds found in western North America. Organized as a companion to Roger Tory Peterson's Field Guide to Western Birds, this is the«birder's bible»of bird song.

The Migrations of Hawks
de Donald S. Heintzelman(Ed. Indiana University Press) Isbn : 0253338212
35.1 €
Heintzelman has been studying hawk migration for over 25 years, and has published extensively on the topic; this monograph summarizes what is currently known about hawk migration patterns and the factors that affect them in North and Central America and the West Indies. The text is divided into four sections covering history and methodology, important observation sites, the influence of weather, and geographic and demographic factors. Scientifically rigorous long-term data are available from so few sites that most of the author's conclusions are necessarily tentative, but some reasonably clear patterns do emerge. Though written for a scientific audience, the book will also be valuable to advanced amateur birders and to falconers. The comprehensive bibliography is a valuable reference tool ...

The Geese of Beaver Bog
de Bernd Heinrich(Ed. Harper Perennial) Isbn : 0060957387
14.2 €
Heinrich, naturalist and author of Winter World (2003) and Mind of the Raven (1999), raised a baby Canada goose to adulthood, at which point she flew south with her compatriots. Two years later, she returned with a mate in tow and set up housekeeping on a beaver pond near the author's house. The trust that Peep, Heinrich's goose, showed for the author allowed him to intimately observe the details of the pair's lives. The author describes battles over real estate, mate swapping, and the tender attentions of parents to new goslings. The other denizens of the marsh also get their due, as Heinrich discovers the nests of song sparrows, red-winged blackbirds, and rose-breasted grosbeaks. Underlying the engaging, personal nature of the narrative is Heinrich's scientific background, and the reader...

The Bird of Light
de John Hay(Ed. WW Norton Co) Isbn : 0393029956
15.83 €
Hay, the author of 11 other well-crafted books ( The Immortal Wilderness , LJ 12/86; The Undiscovered Country , LJ 6/1/82; etc.), writes about terns. Relatives of gulls, these birds are unbelievably buoyant, graceful fliers whose food is small fish, caught by plunge-diving head first into water. Set in Cape Cod, Hay's book centers on the spring arrival of terns, their courtship, breeding, feeding habits, fall departures, and winter life. For Hay, the world of terns is an effective microcosm, good for musings and philosophy on the health of the biosphere, the state of the world, and the human condition. His ruminations are strengthened by scientific counsel gleaned from his friendships with world authorities on terns. Excellent writing, good science, and fine reading.- Henry T. Armistead, T...

The Bird of Light (Paper)
de John Hay(Ed. W. W. Norton Co.) Isbn : 0393310019
12.81 €
Hay, the author of 11 other well-crafted books ( The Immortal Wilderness , LJ 12/86; The Undiscovered Country , LJ 6/1/82; etc.), writes about terns. Relatives of gulls, these birds are unbelievably buoyant, graceful fliers whose food is small fish, caught by plunge-diving head first into water. Set in Cape Cod, Hay's book centers on the spring arrival of terns, their courtship, breeding, feeding habits, fall departures, and winter life. For Hay, the world of terns is an effective microcosm, good for musings and philosophy on the health of the biosphere, the state of the world, and the human condition. His ruminations are strengthened by scientific counsel gleaned from his friendships with world authorities on terns. Excellent writing, good science, and fine reading.- Henry T. Armistead, T...