Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

Birding by Ear: Eastern and Central North America
de Richard K. Walton, Robert W. Lawson(Ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Isbn : 0618225919
28.5 €
A unique system for distinguishing and remembering bird songs.Birding By Ear uses an educational and entertaining method for learning bird songs. Instead of merely providing a catalog of bird song samples, Birding By Ear actually teaches. This proven methodhas greatly enhanced the field experience for birders across North America. The authors have created learning groups of similar vocalizations and clearly point out distinguishing characteristics. Using techniques such as phonetics, mnemonics, and descriptive words, Walton and Lawson provide a context for learning the songs and calls of eighty-five species of birds found east of the Rockies.Combine the auditory instruction here with the visual features of the Peterson Identification System. Page numbers in Birding By Ear's booklet refer t...

The Stokes Purple Martin Book: The Complete Guide to Attracting and Housing Purple Martins
de Donald Stokes, Lillian Stokes, Justin L. Brown(Ed. Little, Brown and Company) Isbn : 0316817023
14.25 €
A unique guide provides readers with all the information they need to start and maintain a backyard purple martin colony and offers more than one hundred color photos, plus a historical perspective, of this popular bird. 25,000 first printing.

Where to Watch Birds in South America
de Nigel Wheatley(Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0691070466
70.63 €
A unique field guide and reference, Where to Watch Birds in South America is designed to help the avid birder and the general wildlife enthusiast organize eventful journeys throughout the richest continent for birds, where the species number over three thousand. This book covers more than two hundred of the best sites for birdwatching, and includes the archipelagos of Trinidad and Tobago, the Galapagos and Falkland Islands, the Netherland Antilles, and part of Antarctica. The reader will find...

Where to Watch Birds in South America
de Nigel Wheatley(Ed. Princeton Univ Pr) Isbn : 069104337X
33.02 €
A unique field guide and reference, Where to Watch Birds in South America is designed to help the avid birder and the general wildlife enthusiast organize eventful journeys throughout the richest continent for birds, where the species number over three thousand. This book covers more than two hundred of the best sites for birdwatching, and includes the archipelagos of Trinidad and Tobago, the Galapagos and Falkland Islands, the Netherland Antilles, and part of Antarctica. The reader will find...

Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry About Birds
de Dylan Nelson(Ed. North Point Press) Isbn : 086547673X
22.8 €
A unique anthology of avian literatureFrom the myths of ancient Greece to the fables of Aesop, from Chaucer to contemporary poetry and fiction, birds are central to literature because they connect us intimately to the natural world. Whether we watch birds at our feeders, travel vast distances to identify rare species, or simply pause in a busy day to listen to the coo of a dove or the trill of a warbler, birds sustain us.Birds in the Hand is a collection of contemporary fiction and poetry that explores the complex, often startling ways in which birds shed light upon our lives. In work from a diverse and celebrated group of contemporary authors such as Charles Baxter, T.C. Boyle, Jim Harrison, Flannery O'Connor, Pattiann Rogers, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Ethan Canin, and Jorie Graham, b...

Care of the Wild Feathered Furred: Treating and Feeding Injured Birds and Animals
de Mae Hickman, Maxine Guy(Ed. Kesend (Michael) Publishing Ltd ,U.S.) Isbn : 0935576533
15.16 €
A true classic, Care of the Wild Feathered Furred has been updated from its original 1973 edition. Explaining in clear, practical language the basic care of orphaned and injured wildlife, the authors (with more than 60 combined years of experience) show an inexperienced reader the best ways to help any animals that they find. Information is presented in 11 sections and covers such broad topics as the care of baby birds and mammals; natural (wild) diets and suggested substitutes; treatments for injuries, poisoning, and disease; dealing with oiled birds; and release of rehabilitated animals. The authors' commonsense approach to the hows and whys of each technique discussed makes this an extremely valuable book and one that is recommended for every library. One caveat: the authors do not di...

Care of the Wild, Feathered Furred: Treating and Feeding Injured Birds and Animals
de Hickman, Guy(Ed. Kesend (Michael) Publishing Ltd ,U.S.) Isbn : 0935576452
14.2 €
A true classic, Care of the Wild Feathered Furred has been updated from its original 1973 edition. Explaining in clear, practical language the basic care of orphaned and injured wildlife, the authors (with more than 60 combined years of experience) show an inexperienced reader the best ways to help any animals that they find. Information is presented in 11 sections and covers such broad topics as the care of baby birds and mammals; natural (wild) diets and suggested substitutes; treatments for injuries, poisoning, and disease; dealing with oiled birds; and release of rehabilitated animals. The authors' commonsense approach to the hows and whys of each technique discussed makes this an extremely valuable book and one that is recommended for every library. One caveat: the authors do not di...

Bird Sounds: How and Why Birds Sing, Call, Chatter, and Screech
de Barry Kent Mackay(Ed. Stackpole Books) Isbn : 0811727874
20.05 €
A thorough and engaging examination of the variety of sounds birds make, from the familiar singing of songbirds and the hammering of woodpeckers to the harsh cacklings of crows. The how's and why's of bird vocalization, regional variation and speciation, and communication among species are discussed. Describes both native and exotic bird behavior and includes the latest research-all illustrated with full-color paintings by the author.

A Teacher's Guide to a Fly in the Sky: Lesson Plans for the Book a Fly in the Sky
de Bruce Malnor, Carol Malnor, Kristin Joy Pratt(Ed. Dawn Publications (CA)) Isbn : 1883220769
7.56 €
A Teacher's Guide to A Fly in the Sky. Based on Pratt-Serafini's brightly illustrated presentation of birds, insects and other animals of the air, these lesson plans explore the basics of flight, instinct and migration, and pollution issues. Emphasis not only on science but on the language arts and skills for living.

The Many Faces of Neutron Stars
de R. Buccheri, J. Van Paradijs, M. A. Alpar(Ed. Springer) Isbn : 0792351940
350.17 €
A survey of recent progress in research on neutron stars, emphasising radio pulsars, accreting neutron stars in X-ray binaries, and the rotation-powered high-energy emission from isolated neutron stars. Among the subjects reviewed are: the broad history of neutron star research; the properties of high-density matter in neutron stars; thermal and magnetic field evolution; dynamics of neutron star crusts and glitches; detection of radio emission from pulsars; radio pulsar population; millisecond and binary radio pulsars; gamma-ray emission from radio pulsars; accreting neutron stars (and black holes) in X-ray binaries; the recently discovered kHz oscillations in low-mass X-ray binaries; anomalous X-ray pulsars; the Bursting Pulsar; X-ray emission from isolated neutron stars; neutron star atm...